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Texas Governor Greg Abbott lifts the statewide mask requirement and allows businesses to open at 100% capacity beginning March 10.
2021-03-2

Texas surpasses two million cases of COVID-19, becoming the second state to do so after California.
2021-01-14

Authorities announce the arrest of a 48-year-old man two days earlier in San Antonio, Texas, US, for threatening to commit a mass shooting at Fort Hood in retaliation for the killing of Vanessa Guillén there in April. He is being charged with making terroristic threats.
2020-08-3

Scientists at the Spring, Texas, Arch Mission Foundation confirm that tardigrades in a cryptobiotic state were added to the payload of the failed SpaceIL "Beresheet" lander that crashed on the Moon on 11 April 2019, and may have survived the crash.
2019-08-6

The Supreme Court of the United States strikes down a law that would have required abortion clinics in Texas to upgrade in order to meet new "hospital-like" standards. Supporters of abortion rights said that the proposed law would force nearly all abortion clinics in the state to shut down, while their opponents argued for women's health benefits.
2016-06-27

Eddie Ray Routh is found guilty of the 2013 murder of United States Navy SEALs' sniper Chris Kyle and Kyle's friend Chad Littlefield in Texas. Routh is automatically sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.
2015-02-24

Former United States Navy SEAL Chris Kyle and another man are killed at a shooting range near Glen Rose, Somervell County, Texas. [https:--www.nytimes.com-2013-02-04-us-chris-kyle-american-sniper-author-reported-killed.html?_r=0 "(The New York Times)"]
2013-02-2

Retired British businessman Christopher Tappin is denied bail in the US state of Texas as he faces arms dealing charges.
2012-03-6

A Saudi Arabian student is arrested in Texas for allegedly planning a terrorist attack against the Dallas home of former President of the United States George W. Bush as a target as well as New York City and dams in California and Colorado.
2011-02-24

Atlantic Tropical Depression Two makes landfall near South Padre Island in Texas.
2010-07-8