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UPDATED: Today Ben Crump, the lawyer best known for his representation of the family of George Floyd and Trayvon Martin, announced at a press conference that he and other attorneys filed a lawsuit on behalf of 90 people who attended Travis Scott’s Astroworld festival. Nine people have died as a result of injuries…

UPDATE 9 PM: Post Malone will replace Travis Scott as the Saturday night headliner at this weekend Day N Vegas festival, according to posts to the event’s Twitter page. The news comes amid a cascade of fallout from Scott’s performance at the Astroworld Festival in Houston on Friday, where eight people were killed and…

Two people were killed and at least seven others injured when gunmen opened fire on a rap music video shoot Friday night near Houston, Texas. The gunfire erupted outside a warehouse complex in the 500 block of Smart Street around 9:30 p.m., according to the Houston Chronicle. The victims were filming in a parking lot…

A stampede Saturday outside rapper Travis Scott’s Astroworld musical festival in Houston, left three people injured. Minutes before the gates were scheduled to open at noon, fans began climbing over metal barricades and surged toward the entrance, according to local news reports. Three people suffered minor leg…

UPDATED, Wednesday 2:39 PM: Many major chain circuits in the Houston area remain closed in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. Now that the rain has stopped, AMC is assessing its buildings with the hope to open over the next few days. Ditto for Regal, both in Houston and the Beaumont, TX area. However, parts of Louisiana…

President Donald Trump visited the Emergency Operations Center in Austin this afternoon and held his second photo opportunity of the day to assure Texans that his team and local officials were doing a “fantastic job. “No. 1, they like each other, and No. 2, they respect each other,” Trump said with a smile. All of the…

The news out of Texas continues to worsen. Thousands have been rescued from inundated homes in Houston and surrounding towns and cities, but authorities have confirmed at least six flood-related deaths in America’s fourth-largest city and another in coastal Rockport as flood waters continue to rise. Forecasters say…

UPDATE: Reports now indicate at least five people have died in the Houston area as a result of the storm. Freeways are flooded as Hurricane Harvey, now downgraded to a tropical storm, hovers over the region. Federal officials called the situation “catastrophic, life-threatening flooding,” and Houston Mayor Sylvester…

UPDATE:  At a press conference, officials in Rockport, Texas claimed at least one person was killed and 12 people injured in storm-related incidents. Details were not immediately available. Hurricane Harvey is losing strength, downgraded to a Category 1 storm with 90 m.p.h. winds. The overnight storm has resulted in…