18 US cruise evacuees have coronavirus after CDC warned against flying sick people

Health officials warned the State Department not to fly 14 American cruise passengers from the Diamond Princess who tested positive in Japan back to the US alongside healthy passengers, for fear the virus would spread.  The State Department batted aside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) staunch warnings and flew all 328 evacuees … Read more

Two coronavirus-infected couples reunited at Nebraska hospital

Two married couples with coronavirus have now been reunited to see out their treatment and quarantines together in Nebraska, officials there said Tuesday.  One person was transferred there earlier this week and a second was moved, from Travis Air Force Base in California, on Tuesday night, but no further details about their identities have been … Read more

SpaceX rocket EXPLODES as it fails pressure test in a blow to Elon Musk’s plans for mission to Mars 

SpaceX rocket EXPLODES as it fails pressure test in a blow to Elon Musk’s plans for manned mission to Mars The prototype of SpaceX’s next-generation Starship rocket failed to take off during testing on Friday night in Boca Chica, Texas Footage shows the spaceship, known as SN1, exploding, sending the stainless steel cylinder flying off … Read more

Shocking moment train SMASHES into a truck stuck on tracks and man jumps out the way just in time

Shocking moment train SMASHES into a truck stuck on tracks as man jumps out of the way of the hurtling vehicle just in time The Amtrak train was caught on camera plowing into a black tractor-trailer in Cibilo, Texas A man in a yellow high-vis jacket is seen leaping out of the path of the … Read more

Student, 11, airlifted to hospital with gash after ‘altercation with teacher’

Student, 11, was airlifted to hospital with large gash over his eyebrow after ‘teacher accused him of stealing a juice box and slammed his head against a counter’ Texas mom Kiana Randolph says a teacher at Post Elementary School lifted her 11-year-old son, Kamauri Williamson, off the ground and hit his head  Altercation was allegedly sparked by … Read more

Demolition company apologizes for accidentally tearing down a 97-year-old home in Texas

Demolition company apologizes for accidentally tearing down a nearly 100-year-old home in Texas after mistaking it for another house on the same block Texas demolition company accidentally tore down a 97-year-old residence  JR’s Demolition apologized after it mistakenly demolished home on Wednesday   Company was supposed to tear down 5336 Richard Avenue house but they demolished … Read more

Angler’s shock as a squirming seabeast with an agonising sting is dragged from the deep 

Angler’s shock at catching squirming sea beast from the deep Alyssa Ramirez came across the odd seabeast while fishing in Port Isabel, Texas Bearded fireworms carry a powerful neurotoxin, delivered through their bristles  In her footage the creature’s dangerous bristles fan in and out as its body writhes By Amelia Wynne For Mailonline Published: 18:44 … Read more

Old Man Steve, 81, has millions of views on TikTok videos of him making sandwiches

TikTok user ‘Old Man Steve’, 81, delights Gen Z followers with ‘cooking’ videos of him pouring cereal and making sandwiches – and says the support makes him feel less ‘alone’ Stephen Austin, 81, has won over millions of fans with his adorable TikTok videos TikTok star, from Texas, says he has followers asking him ‘to … Read more

American coronavirus cases rise to 53 with six newly-diagnosed people in Texas

President Donald Trump insisted the United States is in ‘very good shape’ in regards to the coronavirus, as the White House on Monday sent lawmakers an urgent $2.5 billion plan to address the deadly worldwide outbreak. ‘We think we’re in very good shape in the United States,’ the president said at a business roundtable meeting at … Read more