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SpaceX completes its fifth test flight of the Starship spacecraft, successfully catching the rocket booster with the arms of the launch tower at Starbase in Texas, United States, and with the spacecraft landing in the Indian Ocean.
2024-10-13

At least 11 people are killed in the U.S. states of Texas and Louisiana from severe weather caused by Hurricane Beryl, with more than 1.3 million homes and businesses in Texas experiencing a power outage for four days amid persistent daytime temperatures exceeding 90 F and high humidity.
2024-07-11

Nineteen children and two teachers are killed in a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, United States. The gunman, a local 18-year-old high school student, is subsequently killed by police. The gunman had also shot and critically wounded his grandmother earlier in the day.
2022-05-24

Eight people are dead and hundreds more are injured during a stampede and crowd crush at the Astroworld Music Festival in Houston, Texas, United States.
2021-11-5

Texas Governor Greg Abbott announces that the state is expected to deploy resources to Lubbock and El Paso to help combat the spread of COVID-19.
2020-11-11

The death toll from the recent storms in the American states of Texas and Oklahoma rises to 21 with 11 people missing. Fourteen more people have been killed in northern Mexico.
2015-05-28

The United States government paves the way for expanded exportation of natural gas by approving a US$10 billion facility in Texas.
2013-05-17

The George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, Texas, is dedicated in the presence of President of the United States Barack Obama, former president George W. Bush and all living former presidents. The complex will be opened to the public on May 1.
2013-04-25

Andrew Fastow, the former Chief Financial Officer of Enron Corp., now in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons with a release date of December 17, 2011, moves to a half-way house in Houston, Texas.
2011-05-18

Hurricane Alex becomes the first hurricane of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season with warnings posted from Baffin Bay, Texas south to Mexico.
2010-06-29