Members of a South Texas community that has served as the hub of Elon Musk’s rocket launch company, SpaceX, voted on Saturday to formally establish a new city called Starbase, fulfilling one of Mr. Musk’s long-held dreams. All but six of the 218 people who voted supported incorporating the city of Starbase, according to Cameron … Read more
The broadcast journalist Gayle King and the singer Katy Perry made a brief trip into space on Monday on a flight operated by Jeff Bezos’ private company, Blue Origin. It was the first time an all-female crew had been to space since 1963. Their flight, on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket, lasted about 10 minutes … Read more
The measles crisis in West Texas has claimed the life of another child, the second death in an outbreak that has burned through the region and infected dozens of residents in bordering states. The 8-year-old girl died early Thursday morning of “measles pulmonary failure” at a hospital in Lubbock, Texas, according to records obtained by … Read more
A panel in Texas on Thursday denied parole for the woman who killed Selena, a 23-year-old trailblazing Mexican American singer who was making it big in the popular music scene. The decision came a few days shy of the 30th anniversary of the killing, which shocked her fans and spurred a cultlike following. Yolanda Saldívar, … Read more
A New York state court on Thursday blocked Texas from filing a legal action against a New York doctor for prescribing and sending abortion pills to a Texas woman. The unprecedented move catapults the interstate abortion wars to a new level, setting the stage for a high-stakes legal battle between states that ban abortion and … Read more
A survey of the damage from a cross-country storm system that tore through the South and Midwest over the weekend. Source link
अमेरिका से अवैध प्रवासियों को डिपोर्ट करने की प्रक्रिया जारी है. इस क्रम में ट्रंप प्रशासन ने सैकड़ों प्रवासियों को अल सल्वाडोर भेज दिया, जबकि एक संघीय न्यायाधीश ने इस प्रकार की निर्वासन प्रक्रिया पर अस्थायी रोक लगाने का आदेश दिया था. यह निर्वासन एक 18वीं सदी के युद्धकालीन कानून के तहत किया गया, जिसका … Read more
Outbreaks of measles in parts of Texas and New Mexico have sickened nearly 100 people, according to state health officials who warned that the number of cases was expected to rise. An outbreak has been spreading through the South Plains region of Texas since late January, the Texas Department of State Health Services said on … Read more
There has only been one other human case of avian flu in the US, and the risk to the public is low. Source link
Two states are seeing locally acquired cases- the first spread inside the US in 20 years. Source link