A family in Texas was found dead inside their SUV less than 24 hours after they were reported missing. Authorities on Thursday said the victims were a Texan woman and her two young daughters.
As the new coronavirus relief package is in the works in Congress, almost 100 Texas mayors are pressing for more funding to address their budget losses due to the economic impact of COVID-19.
Similar parties were held in Alabama and Kentucky where attendees reportedly put money in a pot that was awarded to the first partygoer to be infected by the virus.
United States Border Patrol said Saturday that three out of seven the victims from a fatal crash at El Paso, Texas were illegal immigrants, with all information gathered so far.
Texas will start handing out free face masks to every citizen who gets tested for the coronavirus. In a press release last Wednesday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott declared that four pieces of 3-ply surgical face masks would be given free of charge to every Texan who gets tested at a state-run mobile test site.
Hispanics will dominate Texas by mid-2021 accroding to the U.S. Census Bureau. Hispanics will be Texas' largest population group by mid-2021, according to the new population estimates released on Thursday by the U.
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission recently launched a study on the impact of COVID-19 on susceptible populations. The study will include data on respondents' ethnicity, socio-economic status, geographic location, and race.
Dallas recently faced its third straight day of protests over "police killings of black people" one day after almost 90 people got arrested in rallies that extended from Saturday evening until Sunday morning.
The COVID-19 pandemic has paused many legal proceedings in the United States, however, court actions filed by the U.S. government to survey and take private land in Texas for the border wall has accelerated.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is reportedly "pushing back hard" in contradiction of "bipartisan criticism" of a rapidly granted contract, putting a North Texas technology company" in-charge of Texas's initiatives to trace individuals who may have been exposed to COVID-19.
Federal authorities claim the recent attack at a U.S. Naval Base was related to terrorism. Authorities are still investigating whether there is a probable second suspect.
More than half or 53 percent of COVID-19 patients in Austin, Texas are Latinos while 38 percent who died due to the virus still came from the Latino community.