The Cube Could social media firm Meta have alerted authorities about the Texas shooter? Meta wants to extend end-to-end encryption to its Messenger app and Instagram. 26/05/2022
world news Texas school shooting: Details emerge in grief-stricken community The 18-year-old perpetrator shot his way past two police officers and barricaded himself into a classroom to kill 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School, witnesses said. 26/05/2022
no comment Prayers, tears at vigil for Texas shooting victims Residents of Uvalde, Texas, attended a prayer vigil Wednesday evening for the victims of a school shooting the day before. 26/05/2022
Biztech news Tech this week: Texas sues Facebook over facial-recognition practises Meta’s Facebook is in hot water with the state of Texas and French president Emmanuel Macron wants Europe to defend its sovereignty in space. 20/02/2022
Culture news Elton John postpones Texas concerts after contracting COVID-19 The concerts, part of John's "Farewell Yellow Brick Road" tour, were scheduled for January 25 and January 26. 26/01/2022
USA UK police arrest two more men over Texas synagogue hostage-taking Counter-terrorism authorities said that the two suspects were arrested in Manchester. 26/01/2022
USA UK police arrest two men over Texas synagogue hostage-taking Four people were held for several hours by an armed British man on Saturday in what the US has called a "terrorism-related matter”. 20/01/2022
United Kingdom Two UK teenagers arrested over Texas synagogue hostage taking Four people were held hostage in Colleyville, Texas, on Saturday by an armed captor identified as British national Malik Faisal Akram. 17/01/2022
USA Texas synagogue standoff: Hostages safe, captor dead The four hostages were released and freed after an FBI SWAT team stormed the synagogue, where an unnamed, allegedly armed man kept them for hours on Saturday. 16/01/2022
USA At least eight people killed in crowd surge at festival in Texas Officials in Texas say at least eight people have been killed and several others injured in a crowd surge at Astroworld Festival. 06/11/2021
USA US Supreme Court hears challenges on Texas abortion law The controversial new abortion law in Texas that has all but ended the procedure in the state. 01/11/2021
Destinations See how astronauts live in Blue Origin's Texas village Take a look around Blue Origin's astronaut village, complete with campfires, camper vans and blue cocktails. 18/10/2021
Mobility Tesla will move its HQ to Texas, Musk announces Company CEO Elon Musk has had a fractious relationship with Californian authorities, with disagreements over COVID safety rules leading Tesla to sue a county health department. 08/10/2021
USA Judge orders Texas to suspend new law banning most abortions "Women have been unlawfully prevented from exercising control over their lives in ways that are protected by the Constitution," a US federal judge wrote in its order to suspend the law. 07/10/2021
USA COVID-19 deaths eclipse 700,000 in US as delta variant rages Tens of millions of Americans have refused to get vaccinated, allowing the highly contagious delta variant to tear through the country. 02/10/2021
Health Abortion 'whistleblower' site offline after webhost refuses to host it The website allowing users to report abortion patients to Texas authorities went offline after hosting company GoDaddy said it violated its terms. 06/09/2021
USA US Supreme Court refuses to stop Texas law banning most abortions The law marks the most dramatic restriction on abortion rights in the United States since the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision legalised abortion across the country in 1973. 02/09/2021
The Cube Climate misinformation shifts focus to extreme weather events "There’s a shift in tactics. Now it’s softer forms of denial and efforts to diminish the impacts of climate change,” Penn State climate scientists Michael Mann said. 22/04/2021
Nature These ‘cold-stunned’ turtles have been released back into the ocean A record-breaking winter storm meant the water became too cold for the turtles leaving them washed up in Cape Cod. 02/04/2021
USA Joe Biden visits Texas amid recovery effort from deadly winter storm More than a million people in the state are still under orders to boil water before drinking it after millions lost power and water pipes burst in an extreme cold snap. 27/02/2021
Nature Pet tiger rescued during Texas freeze is rehomed in sanctuary A six-month-old tigress, who rescuers have named Elsa, was found in dangerously low temperatures wearing a harness. 25/02/2021
world news The most striking images from this week's top stories Here is our round-up of the week's biggest news stories as captured through the lens' of photographers around the world. 20/02/2021
Nature 'Cold-stunned' sea turtles rescued from deadly Texas snowstorm Volunteers have been trying to warm up the animals despite problems with water and power in the southern US state. 18/02/2021
no comment Test flight for SpaceX's Starship ends in spectacular fashion... again SpaceX’s second full test flight of its futuristic, bullet-shaped Starship ended in another fiery crash landing on Tuesday. 03/02/2021
world news NRA declares bankruptcy and plans to incorporate in Texas The NRA said it has more than 400,000 members in Texas and plans to hold its annual convention in Houston later this year. 16/01/2021
no comment Rocketship bursts into flames as it tries to land vertically Wednesday's 6 1/2-minute test flight was the most ambitious to date. It didn't end as planned, however. 10/12/2020
