I'm an Aussie who spends 2 months a year living in Texas. Here are 8 of the biggest culture shocks I've experienced.
Texas is different from my home Australia in many ways and the guns, portions, and local pride have given me culture shock.
Exclusive: Why juvenile mental records are left out of Tennessee's gun background checks
In an effort to prevent possibly dangerous people with mental illness from buying guns, Tennessee passed a law requiring court clerks to report involuntary mental health hospitalizations. A decade ...
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More than 100 Texans active in the Jan. 6 insurrection among those pardoned
A Texan was the first to breach the Capitol and many others joined the assault. The presidential pardon helps cast all of ...
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Guns, pipe bombs, ISIS flag: What FBI found from New Orleans attacker's truck
The FBI identified the driver as 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar, a US citizen and Army veteran from Texas. A flag representing ... in their investigation? Guns and pipe bombs were found ...
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Texas man kills 15 on New Orleans’ Bourbon Street after driving truck with ISIS flag through crowd
A Texas man plowed a pickup truck flying an ISIS flag through New Year’s Day revelers ... to determine whether the suspect used a long-gun rifle and whether he may have fired into the crowd ...
The driver in the New Orleans attack was an Army veteran from Texas
Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, served in the Army on active duty from 2006 to 2015 and was deployed to Afghanistan in 2009, three ...
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Letters to the Editor — So what will the Texas Legislature accomplish this session?
Re: “Here’s an idea: Let’s ban Democrats from Texas entirely ... More guns equals more safety, right? So President Jimmy Carter was a Democrat? Let’s get those flags raised!
At least 14 killed, dozens hurt on Bourbon Street in New Orleans as driver intentionally slams truck into crowd; attacker dead
Officials have identified the man who intentionally rammed a pickup truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street as revelers ...
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FBI confirms terror suspect Shamsud-Din Jabbar was flying ISIS flag from truck he used to mow down partiers in New Orleans
The black fabric that is believed to have been the ISIS flag was flown on a pole attached to the back of the Texas-plated pickup ... which appeared to be a gun case — located in the truck ...
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'We could've been there': Wisconsin family within blocks of New Orleans attack when it happened
That suspect died in a shootout with police.Authorities said the suspect was from Texas, a U.S.-born citizen and an Army veteran, but said he had an Isis flag, guns and potential explosives in his ...