Pressure mounts on Biden administration to lift restrictions on US borders
By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN A group of mayors recently pressed US immigration officials on Covid-19-related travel restrictions that remain in effect…
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Abbott puts voting restrictions, border security on special session agenda
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday revived the GOP’s thwarted efforts to pass new voting laws in America’s biggest red state…
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Billionaires race to be first in space
CNN’s Rachel Crane looks at the race between billionaires Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson to be the first in…
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El Paso woman killed in west central Texas after blown tire leads to SUV crash
OZONA, Texas — An El Paso woman was killed over the holiday weekend when the SUV she was riding in crashed along Interstate 10 in west central…
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New poll shows McConaughey formidable candidate against Abbott for governor
HOUSTON, Texas — While it’s not 100% sure actor Matthew McConaughey will be running for Texas governor, he seems to already be a fan favorite…
Continue Reading McConaughey on U.S.’ struggles: America’s going through puberty
Matthew McConaughey posted a message to America in celebration of Independence Day, likening issues the country is facing “as basically going through…
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8 wounded in shooting near Fort Worth car wash
FORT WORTH, Texas — Police in Forth Worth reported eight people have been wounded in a shooting near a car wash in which it appears multiple guns…
Continue Reading Texans among jobless in 3 states suing to get their pandemic unemployment benefits back
Jobless residents of Maryland and Texas have filed lawsuits in state courts seeking to force their governors to reinstate pandemic unemployment…
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Rideshare driver indicted on murder charge in fatal shooting at 2020 BLM protest in Austin
AUSTIN, Texas —Â A Texas district attorney announced that a grand jury has indicted Daniel Perry on charges including murder in the death of a…
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Texas Amber Alert update: Missing baby was taken at gunpoint by man & woman
UPDATE: A statewide Texas Amber Alert was re-issued Friday for a 7-month-old boy who was taken from his father’s home by his estranged mother on…
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Texas-based Taco Cabana sold to California company
ADDISON, Texas – The Texas parent company of Taco Cabana has announced that it will sell the brand to a major restaurant operator out of…
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Dallas Cowboys to be featured on ‘Hard Knocks’ this season
DALLAS, Texas — The NFL announced Friday that the Dallas Cowboys will be featured in HBO’s “Hard Knocks” this season. In a tweet, the league said…
Continue Reading Branson sets space flight from southern New Mexico to beat Bezos’ Van Horn trip
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, New Mexico — British billionaire Richard Branson plans to beat fellow billionaire and rival Jeff Bezos to space.…
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4 child migrant shelters to close in Texas, California – but Fort Bliss site to remain open
WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. officials will close four emergency facilities set up to house record numbers of migrant children crossing the Mexican border…
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Pioneering female pilot will rocket into space from Van Horn at age 82 on Blue Origin
VAN HORN, Texas — Wally Funk, a pioneering female pilot who dreamed of being an astronaut in the 1960s, will fly to space later this month with…
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Border Patrol finds 35 migrants in El Paso stash house, arrests 3 with weapons in Sierra Blanca
EL PASO, Texas — U.S. Border Patrol agents had a busy Tuesday in the Borderland as they found dozens of migrants in an El Paso stash house and…
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Trump visits Texas to tour ‘unfinished’ border wall with Gov. Abbott
(Editor’s note: In the video players above, first is Trump and Abbott’s appearance together at the border, in the second player is their complete…
Continue Reading Panera is selling Au Bon Pain to Texas company
RICHARDSON, Texas — Ampex Brands — a Texas franchisee that owns more than 400 Pizza Hut, KFC, Taco Bell, Long John Silver’s and…
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South Dakota deploying National Guard troops to Texas to help at border with use of GOP donor funds
SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem said Tuesday she will use a donation from a Republican donor to fund a deployment of up…
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Dallas man ends up losing legs due to frostbite from historic winter storm
DALLAS, Texas (KTVT) — After three days of repeated power outages at his aunt’s Dallas home back during February’s arctic storm, Steven…
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39-year-old Austin hiker killed on Franklin Mountains was wife, teacher & mother
EL PASO, Texas — The husband of the 39-year-old Austin woman who died hiking in the Franklin Mountains amidst Monday’s heavy rains said she was…
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Over 1 million migrants arrested at U.S.-Mexico border since October
WASHINGTON, DC — More than 1 million migrants have been arrested after illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border since last October, according…
Continue Reading Poll shows Abbott’s fight to keep Trump’s border wall dream alive supported by Texas Republicans
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is pulling out all the stops to build a border wall between his state and Mexico, and a new poll shows…
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8 new arrests in Mexico border city attacks that killed 19
REYNOSA, Mexico — Eight more suspects have been arrested for alleged involvement in gun attacks earlier this month that killed 19 people in the…
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Amber Alert issued for Texas 13-year-old said to be with older man
BROWNSVILLE, Texas — A Texas statewide Amber Alert has been issued for 13-year-old Antonette Rodriguez after she left her home near Brownsville and…
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Biden staffers, ex-state lawmaker sue ‘Trump Train’ members in dangerous Texas highway incident
New video from inside a Biden-Harris campaign bus shows the 2020 incident where Trump supporters surrounded the bus, and allegedly collided with one…
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Iowa joins other states in sending state troopers to Texas to help at border
DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa will send up to 30 state police officers on a two-week deployment to Texas after Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds agreed to…
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Abbott’s border wall project receives $459K in donations so far
AUSTIN, Texas — Over the span of about a week, Texas received $459,000 in private donations for the state’s planned wall at the southern border,…
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Migrant teen found dead, others hurt but rescued in Culberson & Hudspeth counties
SIERRA BLANCA, Texas — Caught off-guard by intense summer heat and rugged terrain in Culberson and Hudspeth counties, officials said they found a…
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Truck fire, separate crash led to I-10 closure near Tornillo
TORNILLO, Texas — Interstate 10 near Tornillo was shut down in both directions by authorities on Thursday morning after two separate incidents…
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