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Snipers shot dead five police officers and injured six others in Dallas during a protest against police shootings of black men on Friday.

• 08 июля 2016, 15:16

Texas Governor Rick Perry announced plans to send 1,000 military reservists to the state's border with Mexico, to tackle a surge in immigrant children flooding into the United States.

• 22 июля 2014, 12:20

A US actress who tried to blame her husband for sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama, then-New York mayor Michael Bloomberg and a gun control activist got 18 years in prison

• 17 июля 2014, 11:25

President Barack Obama will announce Friday his plan to nominate Julian Castro, the charismatic Hispanic mayor of San Antonio, Texas, as US secretary of housing and urban development.

• 23 мая 2014, 14:06

Kazakhstan national Asel Abdygapparova convicted for life in prison in the US is awaiting retrial and possible reduction of jail sentence.

• 12 февраля 2014, 16:44

The fetus being carried by a pregnant American woman already declared brain dead is "distinctly abnormal".

• 23 января 2014, 10:32

A 36-year-old actress from Texas on Tuesday pleaded guilty to mailing ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and a gun control activist, federal prosecutors said.

• 11 декабря 2013, 17:48

The US Supreme Court Tuesday refused to block a law that restricts women's access to abortions in the southern state of Texas.

• 20 ноября 2013, 11:24

The Texas senate late Friday approved a bill setting some of the strictest limits on abortion in the United States, just weeks after a filibuster by opposition Democrats dramatically thwarted the measure.

• 13 июля 2013, 17:59

The US state of Texas on Wednesday executed its 500th convict since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, a record in a country where capital punishment is in decline elsewhere.

• 27 июня 2013, 11:03

A Texas actress was arrested Friday for mailing ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and a gun control activist.

• 10 июня 2013, 11:11

The first manned aircraft that can fly day and night powered entirely by solar energy was to leave Texas for Missouri Monday.

• 03 июня 2013, 17:40

President Barack Obama on Thursday eulogized 12 firefighters who were among 14 people killed in a massive blast at a fertilizer plant in a small Texas town, during a week of tragedy in America.

• 26 апреля 2013, 16:06

Rescuers in Texas on Thursday combed through rubble in a painstaking search for survivors after a massive blast at a fertilizer factory killed as many as 15 people and destroyed dozens of homes.

• 19 апреля 2013, 16:02

Some 60 to 70 people were killed and hundreds were injured by an explosion at a fertilizer plant outside Waco, Texas, local media reported, citing the local emergency manager.

• 18 апреля 2013, 18:01

Three people were shot after a fight at a Texas college erupted in gunfire Tuesday, sparking too-familiar images of frightened students escorted by swarms of police.

• 24 января 2013, 15:03

Texas financier and media magnate Joe Allbritton, who lost the scandal-racked Riggs bank to a hostile takeover after it was fined for helping Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet launder money, has died at the age of 87.

• 13 декабря 2012, 17:37

The southern US state of Texas has warned it could prosecute election observers from the OSCE, a global body that regularly monitors voting around the world, if they try to visit polling stations next month.

• 26 октября 2012, 14:30

An American man convicted of killing a Sudanese immigrant was put to death by lethal injection Tuesday in Texas after the US Supreme Court rejected his fourth appeal for a stay of execution.

• 26 сентября 2012, 18:29

A telegenic young Texas mayor billed as a Latino Barack Obama in the making, Julian Castro, bounded on to the world's brightest political stage Tuesday.

• 05 сентября 2012, 20:15