Browsing: Texas

The president of West Texas A&M University has canceled a charity drag show planned to be held by a student-led organization for the second time, following a recent denial by the Supreme Court of students’ request for emergency action to let the show go ahead. “Spectrum WT asked three courts to prevent the denial of…

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito once again extended his freeze of a Texas law enabling state law enforcement to arrest people they suspect are illegally entering the United States from Mexico. For a second time, Alito on Monday extended his administrative pause as the court weighs the Biden administration’s emergency application seeking to block the…

Pornhub has disabled its site in Texas to object to a state law that requires the company to verify the age of users to prevent minors from accessing the site. Texas residents who visit the site are met with a message from the company that criticizes the state’s elected officials who are requiring them to…

Austin, United States – At South by Southwest — the massive Texas festival for cinema, music and tech — artists this year embraced virtual reality as a means to better connect with humanity,…

Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) said Americans are “frustrated” at the situation on the border after two National Guardsmen and a Border Patrol agent died in a helicopter crash flying over the southern border of Texas. “This is part where I think a lot of Americans are frustrated. You know, just a few days ago, we had Americans…

President Biden offered his condolences for National Guardsmen and a Border Patrol agent who died in a recent helicopter crash on Saturday. “These brave Americans devoted their lives to safeguarding our nation,” Biden said in a statement. “They enlisted knowing the risks and believing in the mission of serving their fellow Americans by keeping their…

A judge at the federal level decided on Friday that a recent initiative permitting a maximum of 30,000 potential asylum-seekers from four nations to come into the U.S. through airports every month can persist, dealing a setback to Republican authorities in Texas who filed a lawsuit to stop the program. The legal case focuses on the government's utilization of parole under immigration law to…

A National Guard helicopter crashed near Texas’ border with Mexico on Friday afternoon, leaving at least two people dead, multiple law enforcement sources confirmed to Nexstar.

Despite an evident contrast, geologists claim that the region of modern day El Paso, Texas was once attached to the now icy continent of Antarctica, in an effort to piece together the giant pieces of a puzzle that formed a pre-Pangaea supercontinent. “Most people are familiar with Pangaea,” said study co-author Staci Loewy, a geochemist […]

I recently came across this poll, which was conducted about a year ago. Ok, so it’s not extremely actual, but one year can’t change the data significantly. So, almost 1 in 3 Texans believes that humans and dinosaurs roamed the earth at the same time, and over half of them don’t believe humans evolved from […]