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Flames rise as a SpaceX rocket explodes in Brownsville, Texas, U.S., June 18, 2025, in this screengrab obtained from a social media video. TheRocketFuture via X/via REUTERS

SpaceX Starship rocket explodes in setback to Musk’s Mars mission

SpaceX’s massive Starship spacecraft exploded into a dramatic fireball during testing, the latest in a series of setbacks for billionaire Elon Musk’s Mars rocket program.

TOPSHOT - In a photo taken on March 28, 2021 ranch owner Tony Sandoval (67) stands before a portion of the unfinished border wall that former US president Donald Trump tried to build, near the southern Texas border city of Roma. - The 11,000 inhabitants of the Texas border town Roma have been living with illegal immigrants for decades. Many have mixed feelings about the new arrivals: empathy and compassion on the one hand - especially since many of their family members also arrived in the United States illegally - but also concern and fear about the growing number of migrants in recent months. Sometimes 500 per night, many of them families or unaccompanied minors. (Photo by Ed JONES / AFP) (Photo by ED JONES/AFP via Getty Images)

Texas Rancher And U.S. Citizen Killed By Cartel IED Along U.S.-Mexico Border

A U.S. citizen and Texas rancher based near the border were reportedly killed earlier this month by a “cartel IED” according to the Texas Department of Agriculture — which announced the news on Tuesday.

Kris Kristofferson performs on the Pyramid Stage at Worthy Farm in Somerset during the Glastonbury Festival in Britain, June 23, 2017. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez/File Photo

Kris Kristofferson, influential singer-songwriter, dies at 88

Kris Kristofferson died Saturday at the age of 88, according to a family statement.

CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA - MAY 30: The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the manned Crew Dragon spacecraft attached takes off from launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center on May 30, 2020 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley lifted off today on an inaugural flight and will be the first people since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011 to be launched into space from the United States. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

SpaceX sues US agency that accused it of firing workers critical of Elon Musk

SpaceX sued a U.S. labor board to block its case accusing the company of illegally firing employees calling CEO Elon Musk “a distraction and embarrassment.”

Emergency personnel respond to a fatal collision in Brownsville, Texas, on Sunday, May 7, 2023. Several migrants were killed after they were struck by a vehicle while waiting at a bus stop near Ozanam Center, a migrant and homeless shelter. (AP Photo/Michael Gonzalez)

Texas migrant shelter suspect ID’d

Authorities have identified George Alvarez as the driver suspected of ramming an SUV into a crowd of pedestrians at a bus stop outside a migrant center in Brownsville, Texas on Sunday.