World may be ‘post-herd immunity’ to measles, top US scientist says

found 2025 › May › 03 (Sat) @ 11:45 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

As infections pummel communities in the US, Mexico and Canada, fear of ‘the most contagious human disease’ grows

A leading immunologist warned of a “post-herd-immunity world”, as measles outbreaks aff…

Elon Musk’s company town: SpaceX employees to vote on ‘Starbase’

found 2025 › May › 03 (Sat) @ 09:20 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Residents – most of them SpaceX workers – in remote Texas community expected to approve plan to create new city

Voters in a small patch of south Texas are casting their ballots on Saturday in an elect…

South Texans set a course for Musk's Starbase

found 2025 › May › 02 (Fri) @ 20:50 UTC

a story from CNBC › Top News

An election Saturday will decide whether to incorporate the Texas town that's home to Elon Musk's SpaceX into the city of Starbase.

Brit nursing student, 23, is stabbed to death at Texas flat she 'shared with stranger who was also found with knife wounds' - as family reveal she was days from graduation

found 2025 › May › 02 (Fri) @ 14:21 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Tamilore Odunsi, 23, was found dead in her student apartment in Houston, Texas, after a friend of her father called them police to say they had not been able to reach her.

Court rules against Trump’s use of Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans

found 2025 › May › 02 (Fri) @ 10:49 UTC

a story from Al Jazeera › Al Jazeera English

In a first-of-its-kind decision, a US district judge issued a permanent injunction barring the law's use in south Texas.

I moved to London from US - here are the three things I LOVE about the UK compared to back home

found 2025 › May › 02 (Fri) @ 10:49 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Madeline Goodgame, from Texas, moved to London in 2024, and despite confessing the transition was eye-opening, she has shared three of the top things she now prefers about life in the UK.

Musclebound transgender swimmer wins all five races she entered at Texas contest

found 2025 › May › 02 (Fri) @ 10:49 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Ana Caldas, 47, came first in the five individual events she entered at the US Masters Swimming Spring National Championship in San Antonio, Texas, last week.

‘He’s just a kid’: the Maryland teenager swept into Trump immigration dragnet

found 2025 › Apr › 30 (Wed) @ 15:10 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

A last-minute supreme court intervention prevented Javier Salazar from getting deported, but the battle is far from over

When 19-year-old Javier Salazar was loaded on to a bus from an immigrant detent…

Venezuelan detainees at Texas center spell out SOS with their bodies

found 2025 › Apr › 30 (Wed) @ 15:10 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Men at Bluebonnet fear deportation to El Salvador under wartime law despite maintaining they do not have gang ties

Detainees at the Bluebonnet immigrant detention center in the small city of Anson, Te…

Why Lennar is betting on a startup building backup batteries for Texas homes

found 2025 › Apr › 29 (Tue) @ 18:45 UTC

a story from CNBC › Top News

Base Power is a Texas-based startup, backed by Lennar, that rents batteries to homeowners and then manages the power going into and out of the home.