Jason Owens has been the leader of the Del Rio division in Texas, one of the busiest areas for illegal crossings in the past few years.
Nate Paul, the real estate investor at the center of the impeachment case against the attorney general of Texas, Ken Paxton, has been jailed at the request of the F.B.I.
Juneteenth will be commemorated across the United States on June 19 with music, art, food and fireworks. We highlight programs in five places, including Galveston, Texas, known as the birthplace of the holiday.
Five were airlifted from Surfside Beach, Texas, to a Houston hospital, and 16 were being treated locally, officials said. They were at a summer camp run by a church when the walkway collapsed.
Gov. Greg Abbott said the state will put a 1,000-foot string of buoys in the middle of the Rio Grande to deter migrants from entering the United States.
The justices asked for extensions to file annual forms that detail gifts, travel and real estate holdings.
At 81 years old, Eleanor Hamby and Dr. Sandra Hazelip traveled from the icy shores of Antarctica to the rocky majesty of the Grand Canyon — in 80 days.
Desperate to improve their ratings, Americans now spend billions on “credit repair” — but the industry often can’t deliver on its promises.
Perfect in their simplicity, chorizo and egg taquitos can be whatever you want them to be, whenever you want them.
A Craftsman-style house in Dallas, a desert retreat in Pioneertown and a two-bedroom condominium in Somerville.
Legal questions have been raised about migrant flights Florida chartered to Sacramento and Martha’s Vineyard. But state officials say they were voluntary, and proving otherwise could be tough.
The agreement is part of the Biden administration’s larger environmental justice agenda, which seeks to redress the disproportional impact of pollution on communities of color around the country.
As California officials accused Florida of shipping migrants to its capital city last week, about 20 more people, mostly from Venezuela, arrived on Monday on the same chartered plane.
The highest levels of politics in the state are in chaos after the impeachment of a leading right-wing politician.
The state attorney general said the migrants carried documents that specified a Florida government agency and a company that dropped migrants in Martha’s Vineyard last year.
The measure makes Texas the largest state to ban transition medical treatment for people under 18.
Texas is joining dozens of states that have asserted dominance over cities through a practice known as state pre-emption.
All of the finalists Thursday night could spell schwa, no doubt. It was the sound it makes that foiled many of them.
Initial findings in an internal investigation suggest the child was not provided with proper care. The acting head of the agency said changes to procedures had been made.
Los estudiantes de la Universidad de Texas en Austin han encontrado un refugio seguro en The Texas Wesley Foundation, un grupo metodista que tiene las puertas abiertas para todos.
Students at the University of Texas in Austin have found a safe haven at the Texas Wesley, a Methodist group whose doors are open to all.
In Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial this summer, 31 state senators will decide whether to permanently remove him as Texas attorney general. One is his wife.
Gov. Greg Abbott chose John Scott, a former deputy attorney general, to head the office while Attorney General Ken Paxton faces impeachment charges.
In Texas, the impeachment of the state attorney general, Ken Paxton, highlights tension over the future of the Republican Party.
Why is Texas rejecting renewable energy?
It’s the latest state to defund diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
The bills’ passage was the culmination of a Republican effort to increase oversight of voting in Harris County, which includes Houston.
The building conflict between moderates and hard-liners in one of the Republican Party’s most important states highlights tension over the future of the party.
More than 200 others could be at risk from a fungal meningitis outbreak that has been traced to two clinics in Matamoros, Mexico, where people traveled for cosmetic surgeries, health officials said.
The extraordinary vote on impeachment exposed rifts among Texas Republicans and set the stage for a contentious showdown in the State Senate.
Four former employees and allies of the Texas attorney general joined forces to file a lawsuit in 2020.
The real estate developer’s appeal for help from the Texas attorney general is under scrutiny.
The former president took to social media to weigh in on the events in Texas.
The state attorney general and conservative star faces a trial in the Senate.
The 20 articles of impeachment against the Texas attorney general.
With the Texas House set to vote on his impeachment, Mr. Paxton is counting on political support that he’s amassed as a Republican legal firebrand.
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The Dallas school district apologized for not providing guidance to parents when it sent students home with a book that teaches how to respond to dangerous situations at school.
The move on Saturday was the culmination of years of official complaints and legal proceedings involving the three-term attorney general.
The Republican-led House committee said Ken Paxton’s abuses of office rose to the level of possible crimes that warranted an impeachment vote.
After the Supreme Court ruled last year that people could carry guns outside their homes, legal challenges and legislative debates have been playing out across the country.
Attorney General Ken Paxton accused the Republican House speaker of being intoxicated, as he suggested that lawmakers were preparing to impeach him over corruption allegations.
How grief has warped the lives of the Uvalde shooting victims’ families and friends.
After a failed police response to the shooting deaths of 19 students and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, there were calls for accountability and new gun laws.
Las tensiones han estallado por nuevos desacuerdos entre las familias de las víctimas y la policía, y entre los propietarios de armas y los nuevos activistas del control de armas en Uvalde.
A Republican effort to bring religion into classrooms faltered, though lawmakers were poised to allow chaplains to act as school counselors.
A year after 19 children and two teachers were killed at a Texas elementary school, families of the victims have bonded through memories, grief and action.
The United States is increasing patrols in the busy shipping lanes, where Iranian forces have taken two internationally flagged tankers in recent weeks.
After their 10-year-old was killed at Robb Elementary a year ago, Kimberly Garcia and Angel Garza had to face unimaginable loss without the solace of privacy.
If this isn’t what anti-abortion groups want, why won’t they fix it?
Tensions have flared over new rifts between victims’ families and the police, and between gun owners and newly minted gun-control activists.
The city’s booming economy is attracting a flock of luxury restaurants from other cities. Is that a good thing for local cuisine?
Some of the more curious pieces of marine debris that wash ashore along the Texas coastline are being sold to support the rehabilitation of marine wildlife.
Border Security Expo attendees didn’t know what was coming, but they hoped to turn a profit.
For his first TV series, the best-selling sports and pop culture writer joined with Michael Schur to tell a story based on his adolescence in San Antonio.
Texas became the largest state to a pass a bill banning puberty blockers and hormone treatments. Gov. Greg Abbott was likely to sign it.
Once thought a relic, the 1873 federal law is now at the center of a legal battle over abortion pills.
More prosecutors appear to be willing to reconsider convictions in the face of contrary evidence, but not all are.
It seems straightforward: More education means more safety. But there was nothing straightforward about these classes.
The days after pandemic-era immigration restrictions were lifted showed the ability of federal authorities, local governments and private nonprofits to temporarily triage the situation at the border.
In a lucrative career that began in Texas saloons, he won back-to-back World Series of Poker titles (and 10 in all) and wrote a definitive poker manual.
The storm in Port Isabel did “extensive damage” to several structures and left 10 people injured, with two of them in critical condition, officials said.
Despite the relative calm, the Biden administration faces court challenges that they say may undermine efforts to deal with record levels of border crossings.
Pandemic-era migration restrictions were lifted without a fresh spike in border crossings. Thousands of migrants now find themselves in a holding pattern.
Kyle, Texas, is hosting a fair this month to try to break the world record for the largest gathering of people with the same first name.
The gunman in Allen, Texas, wasn’t the first nonwhite proponent of white supremacy.
Legislators are moving to erect barriers to clean energy development while providing incentives for fossil fuels.
Los fotógrafos de The New York Times están documentando la experiencia en ambos lados de la frontera, desde Tijuana, en la Costa Oeste, hasta Matamoros, cerca del Golfo de México.
A policy known as Title 42 that allowed rapid expulsions of migrants ended Thursday night. But border cities had already been seeing a spike in migration.
Las nuevas restricciones al asilo harán que muchos inmigrantes sean deportados, pero otros podrán entrar a Estados Unidos de todas formas. Explicamos cómo será ese proceso.
New York Times photographers are documenting the experience on both sides of the border, from Tijuana on the West Coast to Matamoros near the Gulf of Mexico.
El Paso area leaders are trying to prevent an immigration crisis like the one they saw late last year when a surge of migrants overloaded area shelters
Miriam Jordan, The Times’s national immigration correspondent, is covering a major shift in border policy this week.
La política que ha permitido la rápida expulsión de muchos inmigrantes en la frontera sur se levantará el jueves. Las autoridades se preparan para un nuevo aumento de la inmigración.
Title 42, the policy that has allowed the swift expulsion of many migrants at the southern border, will lift on Thursday. Officials are bracing for a new immigration surge.
Solar, wind, geothermal, battery and other alternative-energy businesses are adding workers from fossil fuel companies, where employment has fallen.
Plans to lift Title 42 have prompted dire predictions of chaos on the border. But there is already a migrant surge, because the pandemic policy was never an effective border-control tool.
Hay nuevas vacunas contra la COVID-19 que funcionan. Pero también hay menos puntos de vacunación, menos alcance y menos soluciones creativas para generar conciencia y aumentar el acceso a las inyecciones.
Getting shots into arms isn’t rocket science, or at least it shouldn’t be.
We visited 10 cities across the country to see how the pandemic and its aftershocks have reshaped the American downtown.
A signature-matching rule in North Carolina is rejected, mail ballots in Pennsylvania are in dispute, and more.
A signature-matching rule in North Carolina is rejected, mail ballots in Pennsylvania are in dispute, and more.
The death of at least 53 migrants in Texas, more than half of whom were from Mexico, is testing U.S. efforts to enlist Mexico in deterring migration.
Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
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