Stricter gun law is the only solution to such violence

One construction worker is killed and a dozen others are injured after an explosion at an addition to a Texas hospital , authorities say.

The former US serviceman who committed the deadliest mass shooting on record in Texas escaped from a mental hospital in 2012 as he faced court-martial on domestic violence charges for which he was later convicted, a police report revealed on Tuesday.

The man authorities have identified as the gunman in a mass shooting at a Texas church was discharged from the Air Force for allegedly assaulting his spouse and child, according to an Air Force spokeswoman.

A gunman dressed in black tactical gear massacred at least 26 worshipers and wounded 20 others at a white-steepled church in Texas on Sunday, carrying out the latest in a series of mass shootings that have plagued the United States.

A flood-hit southeast Texas city lost its drinking water supply and police and soldiers rescued thousands still stranded on Thursday after powerful storm Harvey killed 44 people and displaced more than a million on the Gulf Coast.

Hurricane Harvey slammed into the Texas coast late Friday, unleashing torrents of rain and packing powerful winds as it became the first major storm to hit the US mainland in 12 years.

One person is killed and four others are wounded in a shooting in Austin, Texas. Police warn that the shooter is still at large.

A Muslim man on his way to morning prayer is shot and stabbed outside a mosque in Houston, Texas.

Bernie Sanders has beaten Hillary Clinton in the Maine caucuses, the latest contest in the battle to be the Democratic presidential candidate.

At least 11 people are killed as tornadoes ripped through Texas, according to authorities who searched house-to-house for additional victims of the freak storms lashing the southern United States.

US boy who was arrested for taking a homemade clock to class is seeking $15m from his city and school.

Bangladeshi asylum seekers have ended a near week-long hunger strike at the El Paso detention centre in Texas, US, protesting their potential deportation.

Bangladeshi national is shot dead during a robbery in Florida of the United States earlier this week.

Talented American student of Sudanese origin Ahmed Mohammed Al-Hassan arrived in Jeddah to perform Umrah and visit his relatives, reports Arab News.

Two people dies after two separate university shootings in Texas and Arizona, just hours apart.

Video footage has emerged that appears to show police in Texas shooting and killing a man who had his hands up.

Researchers discover an ice sheet on Mars that looks bigger than Texas and California cities of US.

Six children and two adults have been found handcuffed and fatally shot in the head in a Texas home, following the arrest of a man who exchanged gunfire with police.

A man from Texas is wounded after a bullet he fires at an armadillo ricochets and hits him in the head, the local sheriff says.