View of a total solar eclipse seen from Mazatlan, Sinaloa state, Mexico on April 8.//AFP

‘I cried a little’: from Texas to Canada, the awe and beauty

  • April 9, 2024
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Ingram, United States – The day died and was reborn a few minutes later Monday in the southern United States. There were hugs, tears and gasping as people watched the Moon…

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Niki Smit, co-director of Soul Paint, a VR experience that let users draw their emotions on their body, poses next to the drawing of a user, at SXSW in Austin, Texas, on March 12.//AFP

At Texas arts and tech fest, virtual reality is perfectly human

  • March 14, 2024
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Austin, United States – At South by Southwest — the gargantuan Texas festival for cinema, music and tech — artists this year embraced virtual reality as a way to better connect with humanity,…

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A student carries her baby at Lincoln Park High School, a school for pregnant students and young mothers, in Brownsville, Texas, on November 1.//AFP

A Texas school where students bring their babies along

Brownsville, United States – Seventeen-year-old Yavezi Alvarado wakes up early to get her backpack ready for school — but she also has to prepare bottles for her one-year-old daughter, Kamila, who…

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Law enforcement officers work at the scene where people were found dead inside a trailer truck in San Antonio, Texas, U.S. June 27, 2022. REUTERS/Kaylee Greenlee Beal

‘Stacks of bodies’: 46 dead migrants found in truck in Texas

  • June 28, 2022
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SAN ANTONIO, June 27 (Reuters) – The bodies of 46 dead migrants were discovered inside a tractor-trailer on Monday in San Antonio, Texas, city officials said, in one of the most deadly recent incidents of human smuggling along the U.S.-Mexico border….

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Flowers, candles and pictures are pictured at a makeshift memorial outside the Uvalde County Courthouse in Texas on May 28, 2022. CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP

Police inaction moves to center of Uvalde shooting probe

  • May 29, 2022
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The actions — or more notably, the inaction — of a school district police chief and other law enforcement officers have become the center of the investigation into this week’s…

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People react outside the Ssgt Willie de Leon Civic Center, where students had been transported from Robb Elementary School after a shooting, in Uvalde, Texas, U.S. May 24, 2022. REUTERS/Marco Bello

Deadliest U.S. school killing in nearly a decade prompts Biden call for action

  • May 25, 2022
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UVALDE, Texas, May 25 (Reuters) – A gunman murdered 19 children and two teachers in the deadliest U.S. school shooting for nearly a decade, prompting President Joe Biden to urge Americans to confront the country’s gun lobby and pressure Congress to…

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Law enforcement personnel walk outside Uvalde High School after shooting a was reported earlier in the day at Robb Elementary School, Tuesday, May 24, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas / AP

Gunman kills at least 18 children at Texas elementary school

  • May 25, 2022
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UVALDE, Texas (AP) — An 18-year-old gunman opened fire Tuesday at a Texas elementary school, killing at least 18 children as he went from classroom to classroom, officials said, in…

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Hostages freed in Texas synagogue standoff, suspect dead

  • January 16, 2022
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All four people taken hostage in a more than 10-hour standoff at a Texas synagogue have been freed unharmed, police said late Saturday, and their suspected captor is dead.  The…

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Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R), with US Senator Ted Cruz (L), attends a briefing for US President Donald Trump (off camera) in Orange, Texas, on August 29, 2020. Trump surveyed damage in the area caused by Hurricane Laura. At least 15 people were killed after Laura slammed into the southern US states of Louisiana and Texas, authorities and local media said on August 28.

Texas governor bars all COVID-19 vaccine mandates in state, rips Biden for ‘bullying’

  • October 12, 2021
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(Reuters) – Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott, responding to what he called “bullying” by the Biden Administration, on Monday barred all COVID-19 vaccine mandates in the state by any entity,…

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