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2016 6/1/2016 The Brazos River in Texas surged to its highest in more than a century in an area outside of Houston. The National Weather Service (NWS) issued a flash flood watch for large parts of the state and said storms lasting until the weekend could send even more rivers over their banks.
2016 6/2/2016 In Texas a new round of storms dumped more rain on flood-hit parts of the state, threatening to aggravate already swollen rivers, deluge homes and force more evacuations.
2016 6/19/2016 In Texas the Blue Origin space company completed its fourth successful unmanned rocket launch and safe landing using the same New Shepard vehicle.
2016 11/16/2016 The U.S. Geological Survey said the Wolfcamp Shale geologic formation in the Midland area of West Texas could yield 20 billion barrels of oil.
2016 12/10/2016 In Texas the firefighters and policemen of Dallas began pulling money out of their underfunded pension fund. Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings sued to stop them, fearing the failing of the pension fund.
2016 12/14/2016 President-elect Donald Trump announced that he would choose former Texas governor Rick Perry to head the U.S. Department of Energy, calling him "one of the most successful governors in modern history."
2016 12/31/2016 In Texas a federal judge granted a temporary injunction that stopped federal health officials from enforcing rules that are intended to ban discrimination by doctors and hospitals against transgender people.
2017 1/16/2017 U.S. astronaut Eugene Cernan, born in 1934, the last man to walk on the moon, died in Houston, Texas. Cernan, James Lovell and John Young were the only three astronauts to voyage twice to the moon.
2017 2/1/2017 Texas Rep. Gov. Greg Abbott blocked funding for the first time over sanctuary cities after Austin's Sheriff Sally Hernandez said she would stop honoring all immigration holds in her jails following President Trump's inauguration.
2017 2/5/2017 Tom Brady led the New England Patriots on five straight scoring drives that equaled 31 straight points. The last touchdown wrapped up a 34-28 victory over the Atlanta Falcons in the first-ever overtime in the Super Bowl's 51-year history.
2017 2/14/2017 Texas storms packing heavy rains, lashing winds and tornadoes hit the Houston metropolitan area, ripping roofs off homes, blowing windows out of frames and leaving tens of thousands of people without power.
2017 2/21/2017 A federal judge ruled that Texas cannot cut off Medicaid dollars to Planned Parenthood over secretly recorded videos taken by anti-abortion activists in 2015.
2017 3/10/2017 A panel of federal judges in the Western District of Texas ruled 2-1 that three Congressional districts must be redrawn. The two judges who sided with the plaintiffs found that the way in which these three districts were drawn amounted to an unconstitutional dilution of the Hispanic vote.
2017 3/27/2017 A French energy company, Total, announced the launching a multi-billion-dollar petrochemical joint venture in Texas as it tries to profit from the "business-friendly environment" under the current U.S. administration.
2017 3/29/2017 In Oklahoma and Texas six people were killed and nearly 200,000 customers were without electric power after overnight storms brought tornadoes, torrential rain and hail to large parts of both states.
2017 4/20/2017 A U.S. federal court found that a Republican-drawn map setting the boundaries of Texas statehouse districts violates the U.S. Constitution by intentionally discriminating against minority voters.
2017 5/7/2017 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a law focusing on sanctuary cities that lets police ask about a person's immigration status and threatens sheriffs with jail if they do not cooperate with federal authorities.