Sources: AP
Protests are held in the United States including Florida, Michigan, and Colorado. 2023-10-29
The United States Census Bureau announces the country's total population to be over 331 million people, thereby marking the second-slowest growth rate in its history. It also announces that Texas will gain two congressional seats during the redistricting process, with Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Carolina, and Oregon gaining one seat each; California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia will each lose a seat. 2021-04-26
Illinois surpasses 1 million cases of COVID-19, becoming the fifth state to do so after California, Texas, Florida, and New York. 2021-01-7
Texas health officials report the state's first case of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 in a resident of Harris County with no travel history. 2021-01-7
Texas surpasses 20,000 total confirmed deaths from COVID-19 and becomes the state with the second-highest number of reported deaths in the United States, behind only New York. 2020-11-16
The campaign of Jill Stein files for a recount in Pennsylvania and plans to do so in Michigan. 2016-11-28
Donald Trump wins both the Michigan and Mississippi Republican primaries and the Hawaii caucus. 2016-03-8
The governors of the U.S. states of Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin say they will not accept Syrian refugees in response to the Islamic terror attacks in Paris. Twenty-three of the 24 governors are Republican with the other being Democrat (New Hampshire). 2015-11-16
Whole Foods, the Texas-based food retailer, announces that it will buy back $1 billion of its shares, and increases its dividend. 2015-11-4
The Supreme Court of the United States halts the execution of Duane Buck for double murder in Texas while it reviews his case that the sentence was unfair because of a question asked about race during his trial. 2011-09-15