‘Starbase’: Residents of Texas site home to Musk’s SpaceX back city status | Elon Musk News
Overwhelming majority of people who voted to turn base into municipality are employees of Elon Musk’s space company.A community in the southern US state of…
Musk’s bid to make SpaceX site a Texas city is approved
McALLEN, Texas — The south Texas home of Elon Musk’s Southern California-born rocket company, SpaceX, is on its way to becoming an official city with a galactic…
James B. Milliken, University of Texas system chancellor, named UC president
James B. Milliken, the chancellor of the University of Texas who has led among the nation’s largest higher education systems and navigated GOP politics, has…
Judge bars deportations of Venezuelans from South Texas under 18th-century wartime law
A federal judge on Thursday barred the Trump administration from deporting any Venezuelans from South Texas under an 18th-century wartime law and said President Trump’s…
Video: Republican running for congress heckles Muslim event in Texas | Religion
NewsFeedA Republican candidate for US Congress interrupted a Muslim community day at the Texas Capitol building, shouting deeply offensive Islamophobic hate speech from a podium.…
The home of Elon Musk’s SpaceX could become an official Texas city called Starbase
AUSTIN, Texas — Elon Musk has for years made Texas a business home and playground, launching rockets, building cars, and dreaming about creating a utopian enclave for…
Lincoln Riley announces USC sports performance director’s exit
When Lincoln Riley was hired by USC in the fall of 2021, he brought four staffers with him on the plane from Norman, Okla. Among…
U.S. Customs seizes counterfeit cigarettes worth $729,000 in Texas
Boxes containing 17,500 cartons of cigarettes, valued at more than $729,000, were seized by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Laredo for bearing counterfeit marks.…
U.S. judge temporarily stops west Texas immigrant deportations under Alien Enemies Act
A federal judge in west Texas has joined other courts in temporarily blocking the deportations of Venezuelan immigrants under an 18th century wartime law known…
Why Carlos Santana was hospitalized before his Texas concert
Carlos Santana, instead of rocking out onstage at San Antonio’s Majestic Theatre, spent his Tuesday evening receiving treatment in a hospital. The 77-year-old guitarist suffered…
Texas constable deputy shot, injured in shootout outside Houston courthouse
A Texas constable deputy was shot and injured in a shootout Monday outside of the Harris County family law center in downtown Houston. Precinct 1…
Inside Elon Musk’s government-subsidised free-trade Texas HQ
Mike WendlingReporting fromBastrop, TexasGetty ImagesThe site pictured in 2023, with SpaceX facilities at the top, The Boring Company located to the left and the building…
Shohei Ohtani’s wife gives birth to a girl for couple’s first child
ARLINGTON, Texas — Shohei Ohtani announced the birth of his first child on Saturday, posting on Instagram that he and his wife, Mamiko Tanaka, welcomed a baby…
‘I went line dancing with locals in Texas and this is the one rule you must follow’
We enjoyed barbecues, bike rides and line dancing in the Texan capital of Austin and the surrounding area, staying in a stunning holiday rental home…
Jordan Chiles wins another title as UCLA makes NCAA gymnastics final
Jordan Chiles screamed in relief. Tears welled in her eyes as she stuck her uneven bars dismount.When it mattered most, the Olympic gold medalist delivered…
Corey Seager leads Rangers over the Angels
ARLINGTON, Texas — Corey Seager and Jake Burger each had three hits, and the Texas Rangers beat the Angels 3-1 on Wednesday night.Seager also drove in two…
On This Day, April 17: Explosion at Texas fertilizer plant kills 15
1 of 4 | Remains of a fertilizer plant and other buildings smolder after the plant exploded in West, Texas on April 17, 2013. File…
Border Patrol agents in Texas find fentanyl, meth in woman’s rectum, vagina
1 of 2 | Border Patrol agents seized meth and fentanyl from a women's rectum and vagina at a crossing between Juarez, Mexico, and El…
Texas home ‘leveled to the ground’ in massive explosion
April 13 (UPI) -- Officials in Austin, Texas, are investigating a massive explosion Sunday that leveled one house, injured several people and left nearly two…
Measles cases spread in Texas after stagnant vaccine funding. Cuts threaten other states
The measles outbreak in west Texas didn’t happen just by chance.The easily preventable disease, declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000, ripped through communities sprawling…