The highly contagious UK variant is rapidly spreading throughout Houston, Texas, a new analysis has found. On Monday, the Houston Health Department revealed the variant, known as B.1.1.7 was found at more than three-quarters of the city’s wastewater plants in samples collected February 22. This is 47 percent higher than the number of plants the … Read more
A Texas man accused a Trader Joe’s of ‘holding me hostage and against my will’ and then barged into the store after he initially was refused entry along with his two children because they weren’t wearing masks. ‘You’re violating the law. You’re harassing me and discriminating against me because of my disability,’ the man who … Read more
Hundred of people took to the streets of Mississippi without a mask in sight on Friday night after the state lifted their COVID 19 restrictions on March 3. Oxford, home of Ole Miss, saw people out in full force, eating at restaurants and shopping at stores like the coronavirus pandemic was a distant memory – rather than … Read more
Rapper Corey Detiege, who performed under the stage name Chucky Trill, died on Friday A rising Texas rapper traveling down an interstate near Atlanta was shot to death early Friday morning amid a string of deadly highway shootings in Georgia. Rapper Corey Detiege, who performed under the stage name Chucky Trill, died at an area … Read more
The SpaceX team is clearing a mangled Starship from the launch after the rocket exploded following its first high latitude test Wednesday evening. The crew returned to the site the day after Starship Serial Number 10 (SN10) exploded 10 minutes following its ‘soft landing’ and they brought along some help – Zeus the robotic dog. … Read more
Elon Musk has his hands in the automotive industry, space market and solar panel business, but according to a recent tweet he may soon be adding city building to the list. The SpaceX CEO announced a new plan on Twitter that involves creating a ‘the city of Starbase’ in Texas. Twitter users jumped at the … Read more
SpaceX’s Starship Serial Number 10 (SN10) aborted its first high altitude test flight moments after igniting its powerful Raptor engines. The massive rocket was set to take off from the firm’s testing facility in Boca Chica, Texas following a completion of pre-launch checks – but the 165-foot tall, stainless steel vehicle never left the launch … Read more
A Texas software mogul accused of being behind the biggest ever US tax scheme is now faking dementia to avoid going on trial, prosecutors claim – as his former associates reveal he is penny-pinching billionaire who would stay in budget hotels and eat frozen dinners despite being worth an estimated $7 billion. Robert Brockman, 79, … Read more
SpaceX is set to launched its Starship Serial Number 10 (SN10) for its first high-altitude test, marking the third prototype to take the journey. The Elon Musk-owned company confirmed the ‘hop’ on its website saying the event could kick off ‘as early as Wednesday, March 3,’ but official road closure documents show from 9am to … Read more
The North Pacific is home to an enormous swirl of plastic waste twice the size of Texas known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, but how the trash made its way to the region has been a mystery among scientists – until now. Researchers from the US and Germany set out to uncover pathways that … Read more