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Over 9 mn Texans vote early surpassing state's total turnout in 2016

Texas set to hit record-breaking turnout levels this election, surpassing 60 per cent of registered voters for the first time since the early 1990s

Kamala Harris urges Americans to vote in large numbers to bring change

Harris was addressing a rally in Republican stronghold Texas, in a first for a Democratic vice presidential nominee in decades

US elections: Over 7 mn voted early in Texas, Harris to campaign Friday

A massive number of people have already voted in Texas since early voting started on October 13, leading experts to predict that the state could reach overall turnout levels unseen so far this century

Tropical Storm Beta spurs hurricane worries for Texas

Both the city of Galveston and Galveston County on Saturday issued voluntary evacuation orders ahead of Tropical Storm Beta, as did the city of Seabrook to the north of Galveston

Texas, Louisiana brace for Hurricane Laura; 500,000 ordered to evacuate

As Hurricane Laura hurtled towards the US, more than half a million people have been ordered to evacuate the Texas and Louisiana coasts, in the largest evacuation in the country during the pandemic

Texas Guv declares state of disaster as hurricane, tropical storm approach

Governor of Texas Greg Abbott issued a state disaster declaration for 23 counties as Hurricane Marco and Tropical Storm Laura are forecast to impact the state in the coming days

US won't expel migrant children detained in hotel under Covid measures

However, the Trump administration will not stop using hotels to detain children

South Texas calls for evacuations as storm Hanna heads for weekend landfall

Hanna could bring a life-threatening storm surge and flash flooding

Tesla homes in on Austin and Texas for location of Cybertruck site

The company has filed an application with an Austin-area school district in Travis County seeking a tax abatement, according to publicly filed documents.

Coronavirus crisis: Texas regulators do not mandate oil production cuts

Global energy demand has tumbled amid coronavirus-related travel and business restrictions and a glut of oil from shale. U.S. crude collapsed to minus $37 a barrel on April 20

Gunman kills 20 at Texas Walmart store in latest US mass shooting

One suspect was taken into custody while authorities were studying an extremist manifesto purportedly written by the gunman

Two brothers, a dream and a tragic trailer death in Texas

Mariano López, the father, said their intention to go to another country was to have a better life

Texas carries out 1st US execution of 2017 amid dispute

Texas has faced a serious shortage of the drugs used in lethal injections

Texas allows guns on campus

The new Campus Carry Law, passed in 2015, went into effect on Monday

16 die in hot air balloon crash in Texas

The accident occurred shortly after 7.40 am local time on Saturday near Lockhart