A powerful winter storm tore across the Gulf Coast on Tuesday, bring record snowfall to parts of Louisiana and Texas.
Snow and cold temperatures hitting a broad swath of the region also disrupted travel via rails and roadways.
As Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida noted, “We’re not necessarily used to walking in a winter wonderland here.”
With memories of the deadly 2021 winter storm still fresh, Houston residents greeted the city’s blanket of snow with joy but also concern.
“So many of you have never seen an event like this,” Louisiana’s state climatologist warned, with New Orleans facing possibly the most snow it has ever seen.
She oversaw the United States’ largest provider of reproductive health care and sex education from 2006 to 2018.
Binyamin Appelbaum argues that immigration is America’s rocket fuel.
MAGA’s cruelty toward immigrants and its disregard for civil liberties are on full display in the Lone Star State.
But the judges stayed their ruling and for now, hundreds of thousands of DACA recipients will continue to have protection from deportation.
The San Antonio Philharmonic was formed after the demise of the city’s 83-year-old orchestra in 2022. But rebuilding has not been easy.
Scott Turner, an official during the first Trump administration, said that the country was not building enough homes and that the housing department was “failing at its most basic mission.”
The law, meant to shield minors from sexual materials on the internet by requiring adults to prove they are 18, was challenged on First Amendment grounds.
The dispute, which some critics say tests the church’s autonomy, reached the Texas Supreme Court on Wednesday for arguments.
The industry is pumping ever more oil and natural gas, but it is doing so with only about three-quarters as many workers as it employed a decade ago.
The vote suggested that a period of political warfare between G.O.P. factions would continue to shape lawmaking in the state.
The lawsuit accuses Arity, an Allstate subsidiary, of collecting data about people’s driving behavior through mobile phone apps, leading to increases in drivers’ insurance rates.
Prosecutors said the man had sent “sexually violent” messages to the Indiana Fever star and had traveled to Indianapolis to be closer to her.
Algunos adolescentes latinos que quieren celebrar su entrada en la edad adulta organizan su propia versión de las fiestas de quinceañera, una tradición centenaria a menudo reservada para las chicas.
All 50 states ban minors from purchasing adult material offline.
Hundreds of cities have cut back parking requirements for real estate projects. That’s led to more housing development, but it has also resulted in backlash from residents.
In America, boys looking to celebrate their entry into adulthood are having their own, often lavish, quinceañero parties — a new take on a centuries-old tradition reserved only for girls.
Lower courts ruled that a task force that determines which treatments must be covered at no cost had not been validly appointed.
Fixing America’s broken immigration system starts with acknowledging that the United States needs more people.
Parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas began to see snowfall on Thursday as Southern states stretching to the Carolinas brace for the storm to reach them on Friday.
Just after the season’s first major winter storm, snow and ice are set to sweep across Texas and into the Carolinas this week.
The social networking giant will stop using third-party fact checkers and instead rely on users to add notes to posts. President-elect Trump and his conservative allies said they were pleased.
El tiroteo en Ciudad Juárez está siendo investigado. Un fiscal dijo que el conductor, procedente de Texas, había acelerado en dirección al agente y estuvo a punto de atropellarlo.
The shooting in Ciudad Juárez was being investigated. A prosecutor said the driver, from Texas, had accelerated in the officer’s direction and nearly hit him.
Grabaciones y entrevistas detallan el creciente descontento de Shamsud-Din Jabbar con la sociedad estadounidense y su creciente aislamiento incluso dentro de su comunidad musulmana local.
Recordings and interviews detail Shamsud-Din Jabbar’s growing discontent with American society and increasing isolation even within his local Muslim community.
A 17-year-old said that she had poisoned the animal with pesticide because she thought its keeper was a cheater, the authorities said.
El hombre identificado como sospechoso del atentado terrorista el Año Nuevo en Nueva Orleans sirvió en el ejército estadounidense, trabajó en Deloitte y se hizo cada vez más devoto al islam.
The man identified as the suspect in the New Year’s Day terror attack in New Orleans served in the U.S. military, worked at Deloitte and grew increasingly devout.
A Queen Anne house in Denver, a top-floor condominium in Chicago and a ranch-style house in Austin.
Forecasters warned of a “critical” wildfire risk on Monday in New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma.
Strong storms spawned tornadoes in Texas and Mississippi on Saturday and dumped heavy rain on the Carolinas on Sunday.
A tornado that touched down in Brazoria County, Texas, struck some homes and other structures on Saturday, the authorities said. It was a day of tornado warnings in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi.
More than 9,000 flights were delayed on Saturday amid threats of rain, snow and tornadoes across the country.
Businesses will not have to reveal their owners after an appeals court reversed a move that would have forced them to disclose the information by Jan. 1.
As climate change intensifies, flooding is emerging as a threat for homes not previously seen as high-risk. Some residents are responding creatively by lifting up their homes.
The two games had more than 24 million viewers on average in the United States, Netflix said. Viewership peaked when Beyoncé performed.
The Apple supplier has spent millions in the United States, India and Mexico over the past two years to lessen its dependence on China.
Los empleados de SpaceX presentaron una petición formal para crear la ciudad de Starbase. Su primer alcalde sería un responsable de seguridad de la empresa.
Bad weather made delays worse after problems with systems used to release flights on one of the busiest travel days of the year.
Employees of SpaceX have filed a formal petition to create the city of Starbase. Its first mayor would be a security manager for the company.
Over three decades, Sally Vahle has played Scrooge, ghosts and many of the other characters in Dallas Theater Center’s annual production of the Dickens classic.
Millions of companies may have to report information about their owners to the Treasury Department by Jan. 1 under an appeals court ruling.
Representative Kay Granger, Republican of Texas, has been largely absent from Capitol Hill since the summer and has moved into a retirement home.
The Supreme Court will hear arguments next month in First Amendment challenges to laws banning the app and shielding minors from sexual materials on the internet.
Officials are moving to increase enforcement and change laws in response to the rise in counterfeit or expired plates, which exploded during the pandemic.
Assessing the academic skills of elementary and middle school students matters more than ever.
The new contract would provide raises and better benefits, following similar deals at other big airlines.
Since the end of a pandemic-era policy that barred states from removing people from Medicaid, Texas has dropped over half a million people from the program, more than any other state.
La política que ha permitido la rápida expulsión de muchos inmigrantes en la frontera sur se levantará el jueves. Las autoridades se preparan para un nuevo aumento de la inmigración.
Title 42, the policy that has allowed the swift expulsion of many migrants at the southern border, will lift on Thursday. Officials are bracing for a new immigration surge.
Solar, wind, geothermal, battery and other alternative-energy businesses are adding workers from fossil fuel companies, where employment has fallen.
Plans to lift Title 42 have prompted dire predictions of chaos on the border. But there is already a migrant surge, because the pandemic policy was never an effective border-control tool.
Hay nuevas vacunas contra la COVID-19 que funcionan. Pero también hay menos puntos de vacunación, menos alcance y menos soluciones creativas para generar conciencia y aumentar el acceso a las inyecciones.
Getting shots into arms isn’t rocket science, or at least it shouldn’t be.
We visited 10 cities across the country to see how the pandemic and its aftershocks have reshaped the American downtown.
A signature-matching rule in North Carolina is rejected, mail ballots in Pennsylvania are in dispute, and more.
A signature-matching rule in North Carolina is rejected, mail ballots in Pennsylvania are in dispute, and more.
The death of at least 53 migrants in Texas, more than half of whom were from Mexico, is testing U.S. efforts to enlist Mexico in deterring migration.
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Daniel Defense was one of nearly 500 gun and ammunition makers and retailers that collected a total of $125 million from the Paycheck Protection Program.