• Rather, Texas gained independence from Mexico in 1836 and after nine years as an independent nation, we Texans prefer to say that the Republic of Texas and the United States of America merged.

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  • AUSTIN, Texas Lewis Hamilton won the United States Grand Prix in Austin, Texas on Sunday, in the first stateside Formula One race since 2007.

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  • No military exercises were conducted over Texas when Taiwan and the United States were squabbling over beef imports from 2010 to 2012.

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  • Thirteen members of the self-styled Republic of Texas , which wants Texas to secede from the United States, held police at bay from a compound in Fort Davis.

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  • The FBI describes the group as a "whites only, " prison-based gang with members operating inside and outside of state and federal prisons throughout Texas and elsewhere in the United States since at least the early 1980s.

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  • Perry, who calls Social Security "a monstrous lie" and has flirted in the past with the idea that Texas should secede from the United States, thought that what Americans wanted in a president was Yosemite Sam without the intellectual pretensions.

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  • At a concert in London just before the Iraq war, Maines told the crowd, "Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas, " the state the bandmates call home.

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  • As Supreme Court Justice William Brennan said in the 1989 United States flag burning decision, Texas vs.

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  • The El Paso (Texas) Times said waits to enter the United States on Wednesday were two hours -- double the usual time.

    CNN: Long delays reported at U.S.-Canada border

  • Of 2007's six hurricanes, only one -- Humberto -- made landfall in the United States, striking the upper Texas Gulf Coast on September 13.

    CNN: NOAA predicts above-normal '08 hurricane season

  • At the height of the Cold War, the win by the pianist who grew up in Texas helped thaw the icy rivalry between the United States and Soviet Union.

    NPR: Van Cliburn Remembered As Gifted Pianist

  • The United States reported 896 confirmed cases in 41 states with two deaths, both in Texas, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

    CNN: Mexico lowers swine flu alert as businesses in capital reopen

  • In the United States, California, Indiana and Texas also were reporting additional cases not confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

    CNN: World battles swine flu as death toll rises

  • They do not recognise the authority of the United States, on the ground that Texas (briefly independent 150-odd years ago) never legally joined it.

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  • Vettel currently sits 13 points ahead of Spain's Fernando Alonso after the Ferrari driver kept his hopes alive with a third-place finish in last week's United States Grand Prix in Austin, Texas.

    WSJ: Vettel Leaves Nothing to Chance

  • Thinking its successful West Coast and Texas development allowed it to freely move about the United States, Southwest has added new markets and routes since 2003, many of which are consistent money losers.

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  • One of the most severe cases of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the United States has been reported in southern Texas: a strain of TB resilient to at least eight of the 15 drugs used to treat this deadly airborne disease.

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  • Totally off this topic -- retired British businessman Christopher Tappin is on his way to a Texas jail today after he was extradited to the United States from Great Britain because he was illegally exploiting weapons parts to Iran.

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  • More refineries could produce almost all of what we need in the United States, with enough to export from Texas to Asia for even bigger profits.

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  • While in the United States, it will also travel to Texas for imaging with a CAT scanner, which will provide a three dimensional view of the skeleton.

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  • According to a 1998 study by Louisiana State University, more than 500 million birds fly over the Gulf and enter the United States along coastal areas in Louisiana and Texas each spring.

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  • CRAWFORD, Texas (CNN) -- Mexicans visiting the United States for less than three days won't have to undergo fingerprinting and photographing, Mexican President Vicente Fox said Saturday at President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas.

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  • General Motors, Ford Motor and Chrysler accounted for about 800, 000 of the vehicles exported from the United States in 2011, but European- and Asian-based manufacturers, with plants in states like Texas, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Mississippi, South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee, increasingly see the U.S. as a production source for markets outside the U.S. BMW is the largest automotive exporter in the U.S., shipping about 70 percent of the 300, 000 vehicles it produces annually at its factory in Spartanburg, S.C.

    FORBES: Foreign Carmakers Ship More Made-In-USA Cars Overseas

  • Texas is the example par excellence of this principle in the United States.

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  • The IRS filed a petition to enforce the summons in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.

    FORBES: Protecting Tax Accrual Workpapers from IRS Summons

  • And notably, 300, 000 barrels per day or more from the United States primarily from North Dakota and Texas and from a rebound in off-shore production.

    WSJ: Daniel Yergin: What's Behind Rising Gas Prices?

  • Concho's core operating areas are located in the Permian Basin region of Southeast New Mexico and West Texas, an onshore oil and natural gas basin in the United States.

    FORBES: Concho Resources

  • On April 30, 2003, the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas sentenced Cornett to a term of imprisonment of 37 months after he pleaded guilty to five counts of bank fraud.

    FORBES: Convicted Bank Fraudster Starts Forex Ponzi After Prison

  • The largest pension fund in the United States, TIAA-CREF, and the Texas Retirement System recently discovered this reality the hard way -- notwithstanding stated policies of not responding to such "external, non-financial pressures" -- when they reportedly could not sustain their holdings of Talisman Energy because of the company's relationship with the odious Sudanese regime.

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  • The cases underscore the need for parents to teach children how to avoid being seized, and to learn escape methods if they are, said Bob Stuber of the Texas-based Escape School, which runs educational programs across the United States.

    CNN: Safety expert offers tips to avoid abduction

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