West Texas will soon be home to what developers describe as the largest permitted data center campus in the United States, following state approval for a massive power and infrastructure project near the Permian Basin oil fields.

Texas on Wednesday evening conducted the United States' first execution of the year, putting a 55-year-old man to death for the 1998 double murder of his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend.

Texas’ population grew at a slower pace in 2025 than in previous years, according to new federal data. Nearly 32 million people now live in the state.

Texas’ gain in population from people moving in from other states has sunk to its lowest level in two decades, according to estimates that the Census Bureau released this week.

This newly independent Greenland would then declare its desire for American annexation, which Washington would happily oblige. What Texas was for the 19th century, Greenland could be for the 21st.

Move over Floridaand Texas. The United States has new hot spots for growth, and they both have Carolina in their name. North Carolina last year