Texas

The snake went missing from a home in Grand Prairie at around 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, with officials unable to locate it outside of the residence.

While on Fox News, Ted Cruz said that Biden had "chutzpah," or strong audacity, in reference to him calling out GOP governors.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott previously threatened to fine any entity within the state that introduces vaccine or mask mandates.

Former president called the Texas election a "big Trump victory" and praised state Senator Jake Ellzey, who beat his candidate, for being an "American patriot."

"I've waited 25 years for a moment like this," said fisherman Cody Davis after catching one of the lemon sharks on the Bolivar Peninsula in Texas.

Despite the surge in infections, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has declared that the state will not issue vaccine or mask mandates.

On Monday, there were 6,853 people in Texas hospitals with COVID-19, which was the most since February 22.

Tim Furr said masks should not be a local requirement because of undocumented migrants crossing the U.S. border with Mexico, despite his county being nearly 1,400 miles away.

The wife was also left with serious injuries after their SUV flipped off road in Lubbock, Texas, on July 31.

The more than 50,000 hospitalizations is the most since February, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

A second loss in two weeks could make Trump less significant and diminish his self-proclaimed kingmaker status going into next year's midterm elections.

"Obviously, we want everything to be precisely spot-on, and we're going to give counties the ability to do that," Texas' elections director said in reaction to the voting discrepancies.

Two men began arguing with each other over a reclined seat during a flight from New Orleans to Austin, and got into a physical fight after the plane landed.

Lydia Rodriguez and her husband are on ventilators in a Texas hospital after contracting coronavirus in July.

The warrant alleges William Carter lied about positive virus diagnoses for himself, his spouse and child and received more than $12,000 in paid sick leave.

State Rep. Alex Dominguez referenced the 1836 battle between Sam Houston and Antonio López de Santa Anna, which secured Texas' independence from Mexico.

The former White House chief of staff insisted the former president's endorsement has "unbelievable power at perhaps historic levels."

Aaron Reitz apologized to Biles and said he had "opined on subjects for which I am not adequately versed."

Footage shows Nekia Trigg, 18, shouting "I can't breathe" as the officer pins her to the ground.

The officer is seen straddling the man and punching him half a dozen times, with several punches making contact with the man's face.

The hive had been living in the washing machine in someone's yard for nearly a year.

The Republican governor said "the path forward relies on personal responsibility rather than government mandates."

The girl's mother has accused officers of brutality. The girl's sister says the girl was merely walking home in a low-traffic neighborhood before they arrested her.

"The new Executive Order emphasizes that the path forward relies on personal responsibility rather than government mandates," Abbott said in a statement.

"It definitely causes some discomfort for my family to not be certain about our future," one chief of staff for a Democratic state representative said.

"It's clearly somebody's memory. Somewhere along the way, they lost track with it and we'd like to reunite them," said a spokesman for the NTTA.

The 25-year-old man was found hanging from railings of a drainage ditch on Monday, just outside San Antonio.

"Congress passed the Paycheck Protection Program to help struggling businesses stay afloat, not to fund faux entrepreneurs' luxury lifestyles," acting U.S. Attorney Prerak Shah said on Wednesday.

A Florida medical examiner said Benjamin Dowling died because of his mental and physical disabilities caused by babysitter Terry McKirchy in 1984.

"Contrast this with our selfish, childish national embarrassment, Simone Biles," tweeted Aaron Reitz in response to a post about 1996 Olympian Kerri Strug.