Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Texas

See Tesla Model Y With Potential Structural Pack Design At Giga Texas

Tesla may have Model Y bodies ready for its new structural battery pack. However, at this point, many unanswered questions remain about 4680 battery cells.

InsideEVs

Texas hostage siege: Malik Faisal Akram’s motive probed as rabbi recounts synagogue attack

An investigation into the hostage crisis at a Texas synagogue is ongoing

The Independent UK

Rabbi threw chair at gunman to escape Texas synagogue stand-off

Hostage-taker Malik Faisal Akram from Blackburn was shot dead when the FBI stormed the synagogue on Saturday.

The Independent UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

'We know there is a threat': Alert level in Manchester Jewish communities remains 'very high' following Texas siege

The level of security hasn't increased for Synagogues in Greater Manchester as it's already 'very high'

Manchester Evening News

Hero rabbi 'threw chair at Lancashire gunman' and helped hostages escape 10-hour Texas siege

Malik Faisal Akram, 44, from Blackburn, held four hostages at a synagogue in the US before being shot dead

Manchester Evening News

Texas hostage crisis renews fears of increasing antisemitism in US

According to Anti-Defamation League, there were over 2,100 acts of assault, vandalism and harassment last year

The Guardian - US

Texas synagogue siege - latest: Malik Faisal Akram’s motive for hostage crisis targeted by investigators

Follow live updates on the hostage crisis at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas

The Independent UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Attacks on America’s Jewish community on the rise long before Colleyville, experts say

FORT WORTH, Texas — The hostage standoff inside a Colleyville synagogue Saturday reignited fears of antisemitic violence with news headlines that circled the globe. But for many Jewish Americans, the threat of such an attack — even at a small-town synagogue in North Texas — is something they live with…

Tribune News Service

Texas rabbi who was held hostage in synagogue siege says he’s grateful to be alive

A rabbi who was held hostage at a synagogue in Texas has said he is “grateful to be alive”.

indy100

Texas synagogue attack: Who is Aafia Siddiqui? A federal prisoner linked to the hostage situation

Siddiqui’s attorney denies the Pakistani neuroscientist had any involvement in ‘wicked’ actions

The Independent UK

Texas synagogue siege: British hostage-taker Faisal Akram ‘ranted about 9/11 attacks’

Man was banned from Blackburn Magistrates’ Court in 2001 after making references to 9/11 while abusing staff

The Independent UK

First Thing: Teenagers arrested in UK over Texas synagogue siege

UK counter-terrorism police detain teenagers in Manchester and suspect named as Briton Malik Faisal Akram. Plus, Lego sued over Queer Eye toy jacket

The Guardian - UK

Malik Faisal Akram: Everything we know about the Texas synagogue hostage-taker

Malik Faisal Akram, 44, held four people at the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas

The Independent UK

WNBA players changed US politics in Georgia. NBA stars can do the same in Texas

As we mark MLK Day, there are plenty of signs the struggle for justice in the US is far from over. Athletes can make a real impact in changing the status quo

The Guardian - US

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Manchester Evening News

'He's got a criminal record. How was he allowed a visa?': Texas hostage taker's family demands answer after he's killed

Gulbar Akram has demanded more information about how the incident involving his brother had been allowed to unfold

Tribune News Service

Here, the ‘COVID numb’ are vaxxed, vexed and trying to make it work

MANSFIELD, Texas — On a recent Friday night at Lake Ridge High School in this suburb south of Arlington, Alex Hawkins sat by himself in the upper reaches of a gymnasium that, in the vernacular of the day, allowed plenty of social distancing.

Tribune News Service

Cynthia M. Allen: As New York, DC turn to vaccine passports, here’s why pandemic life is better in Texas

FORT WORTH, Texas — The other morning, a friend from Washington, D.C., sent me an exasperated text with a link to the new vaccine passport requirements for our nation’s capital.

ABC News

Manchester police arrest two teenagers in relation to Texas synagogue attack

Counterterrorism police arrest two teenagers in Manchester in relation to an attack in the United States, in which a British man held four people hostage for 10 hours before being shot dead by a SWAT team.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Manchester Evening News

Texas hostage taker shot dead pictured for first time as counter terror police arrest two in Manchester

Malik Faisal Akram, from Blackburn, held four hostages at the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas

Evening Standard

Teens quizzed in Manchester as MI5 probes Texas siege

Two UK teenagers were on Monday being questioned by counter-terrorism detectives as police and MI5 joined the FBI in probing the Texas synagogue siege in which an armed British hostage taker was shot dead.

The Independent UK

FBI under fire for claiming Texas synagogue attack wasn’t related to anti-Semitism

FBI claims attacker was focused on issue not directly connected to the Jewish community

Tribune News Service

Cowboys QB Dak Prescott gives ‘credit’ to fans for throwing trash at referees

ARLINGTON, Texas — Dak Prescott found it repugnant.

The Independent UK

Support flows to 'changed' Texas synagogue after standoff

The tight-knit congregation at a Texas synagogue where four people were held hostage by an armed captor during a 10-hour standoff over the weekend traces its roots back to a gathering organized over 20 years ago by a handful of families who were new to the area

Tribune News Service

Cowboys RB Ezekiel Elliott admits to tearing PCL vs. Carolina, but won’t need surgery

ARLINGTON, Texas — That mysterious Ezekiel Elliott knee injury now has a name.

The Independent UK

Texas rabbi: Security training paid off in hostage standoff

U.S. and British authorities are continuing an investigation into the weekend standoff at a Texas synagogue that ended with an armed British national dead

1 … 1080 1081 1082 1083

People

Charlie Cytron-Walker

15 stories

Aafia Siddiqui

14 stories

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Congregation Beth Israel

21 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.