Texas brands Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR as terrorist groups
- 19-Nov-2025
Houston: The governor of Texas on Tuesday blacklisted two Muslim groups as terrorist organizations, including CAIR, one of the most prominent Islamic civil rights organizations in the United States. Greg Abbott, the Republican governor, also blacklisted the Muslim Brotherhood, a worldwide Islamist organization. “Today, I designated the Muslim Brotherhood and Council on American-Islamic Relations as […]
xAI sues Apple and ChatGPT maker OpenAI
- 25-Aug-2025
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup xAI sued Apple and ChatGPT maker OpenAI in U.S. federal court in Texas on Monday, accusing them of illegally conspiring to thwart competition for artificial intelligence. Apple and OpenAI have “locked up markets to maintain their monopolies and prevent innovators like X and xAI from competing,” the lawsuit, […]
Death toll from Texas flood hits triple-digits as tally of missing tops 180
- 09-Jul-2025
The death toll from the July Fourth flash flood that ravaged a swath of central Texas Hill Country rose on Tuesday to at least 109, many of them children, as search teams pressed on through mounds of mud-encrusted debris looking for scores of people still missing. According to figures released by Governor Gregg Abbott, authorities […]
Death toll from Texas floods reaches 67, including 21 children
- 06-Jul-2025
HUNT, Texas, July 6: The death toll from catastrophic floods in Texas reached at least 67 on Sunday, including 21 children, as the search for girls missing from a summer camp entered a third day. Larry Leitha, the Kerr County Sheriff in Texas Hill Country, the epicenter of the flooding, said the death toll in […]
Missing mother, daughter found dead in pond
- 17-Apr-2024
A Texas mother and her young daughter were found dead after their family had reported them missing hours earlier, according to local police. Lauren Bonvillian, 33, and her daughter Savannah Bagley, 4, were reported missing Sunday night. Later, the Hill County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that the pair had been discovered deceased in their vehicle following […]
Texas can ban emergency abortions
- 03-Jan-2024
The US government cannot enforce federal guidance in Texas requiring emergency room doctors to perform abortions if necessary to stabilize emergency room patients, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday, siding with the state in a lawsuit accusing President Joe Biden’s administration of overstepping its authority. The ruling by a unanimous panel of the 5th […]
Woman attacked by hawk after snake falls from sky, lands on her
- 13-Aug-2023
A woman in US state of Texas has recounted her terror after being attacked simultaneously by a hawk and a snake while she was mowing her lawn. Peggy Jones, was carrying out the garden chore in Texas when a snake fell on her – seemingly out of the sky – and wrapped itself around her […]
Heatwave in US southern parts claims 13 lives
- 01-Jul-2023
HOUSTON: At least 13 people have died in Texas heatwave in southern United States, international media reported citing officials. Eleven of the heat-related deaths occurred in Webb County, where temperatures soared to 48 degree Celsius. Huge swaths of the US continue to face extreme hot weather as temperatures going to extreme in the south and […]
Driver charged with eight counts of manslaughter in crash
- 08-May-2023
A Texas man accused of mowing down a group of pedestrians with his SUV near a Brownsville homeless shelter that attends to migrants was charged on Monday with eight counts of manslaughter, police said. Brownsville Police Chief Felix Sauceda said during a news conference that the driver, identified as George Alvarez, 34, ran a red […]
Texas shooting claims five lives, armed suspect on the loose
- 30-Apr-2023
A man shot dead five neighbors including an 8-year-old boy after some of them had asked him to stop shooting a semiautomatic rifle in his front yard in Cleveland, Texas, because it was keeping their baby awake, police said on Saturday. Police were still looking for the suspect, who used an AR-15-style rifle in the […]