The gunman was killed by police officers, and 14 others were hospitalized in the shooting early Sunday, officials said.
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The infections at the center in El Paso come amid growing worries by some lawmakers about the conditions at immigration detention centers across the country.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that a Texas law banning some performances in front of children can go into effect in March as a legal battle continues.
In mapping out Elon Musk’s wealth, our investigation found that Mr. Musk is behind more than 90 companies in Texas. Kirsten Grind, a New York Times Investigations reporter, explains what her team found.
The megabillionaire was tied to about 90 companies in the state, which he uses for everything from paying nannies to buying land to supporting Donald Trump’s re-election, according to a Times examination.
After the downing of a Customs and Border Protection drone, the F.A.A. closed the airspace above Fort Hancock, Texas.
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18 bishops and archbishops from border areas issued a strongly worded statement hours before President Trump’s State of the Union address.
Camp Mystic has been the foundation of an invisible network of status and power in Texas. Now that social web is beginning to fray.
Democrats and Republicans urged Tony Gonzales to step down after allegations that he had sent inappropriate texts to a staff member and had a sexual relationship with her.
“The lack of the state-required evacuation plan created chaos that cost 27 young lives,” the suit asserts.
A passenger in the car with Ruben Ray Martinez wrote that the men were trying to comply with authorities before Mr. Martinez was shot. The passenger, Joshua Orta, died in a car accident on Saturday.
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A Texas law passed last year was the first in the nation to explicitly ban clubs based on gender identity in K-12 schools. The judge blocked its enforcement in three school districts.
A 23-year-old American was shot last March in South Padre Island. ICE’s involvement in the shooting was not disclosed until this week.
Like many Democratic primaries, the fight for the right to challenge a Republican House member in the Rio Grande Valley comes down to a choice, shift left or choose the party’s favorite for November.
Unusually warm temperatures, dry air, parched vegetation and strong wind gusts have fueled wildfires, which have broken out across Oklahoma and Texas this week.
A combustible mix of weather ingredients has sparked worries about new fires in Oklahoma and Texas.
The co-worker, who no longer works for Representative Tony Gonzales, shared screenshots of the text exchange with The New York Times. Mr. Gonzales accused his Republican primary challenger of being behind the revelation.
Both parties’ Senate primary races are kicking into high gear.
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High winds were fueling the risk of wildfires across the Southwest and the Plains. Officials said the weather conditions had caused a deadly highway pileup in Colorado.
A dispute over the impact of H-1B visas on U.S. workers has been overshadowed by racist rhetoric, with troubling echoes of the great replacement conspiracy theory.
In dozens of states, students have staged walkouts over immigration enforcement. In Texas, they’re doing so despite threats from Gov. Greg Abbott.
Problems at detention centers operated by CoreCivic extend far beyond recent measles outbreaks.
The exhibition at the University of North Texas by a Mexican-born artist included the language “Immigration and Cruelty Enforcement.”
The number of children being detained has spiked since last year. Families describe poor conditions and little education.
The Federal Aviation Administration is charged with flight safety, and the Defense Department with national security. Those missions keep colliding.
Las autoridades estadounidenses advierten que los drones operados por cárteles en la frontera suponen una gran amenaza. Las autoridades mexicanas no están tan seguras. Los analistas dicen que la respuesta está probablemente a medio camino entre ambas posturas.
U.S. officials warn that cartel-operated drones on the border pose a major threat. Mexican officials are less certain. Analysts say the answer is likely in between.
The U.S. has spent billions of dollars developing counter-drone technology, but much of it needs more testing in the real world.
Last minute announcements and abrupt changes by the Trump administration have caused confusion in an already strained U.S. aviation system.
Los oficiales apuntaron a lo que pensaban que era un dron de un cártel de la droga, pero resultó ser un globo de fiesta, dijeron personas familiarizadas con el episodio.
El gobierno de Trump achacó la interrupción de servicio a la incursión de un dron de un cártel, pero otros han rebatido esa explicación.
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Leqaa Kordia, 33, of New Jersey, was hospitalized after hitting her head at a Texas detention center, her lawyer said. She was initially arrested during a 2024 protest at Columbia University.
Meses antes de que millones de personas lleguen para la Copa del Mundo, los casos confirmados en el país han superado los 9000 desde el año pasado.
The country’s confirmed cases have topped 9,000 since last year, raising fears that a high-stakes evaluation in April could lead to its status being revoked.
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The Federal Aviation Administration lifted an order to ground all flights at El Paso International Airport on Wednesday. The order was initially issued on Tuesday night. Officials claimed a drone incursion prompted the closure.
Las autoridades estadounidenses afirman que se han incautado cientos de kilos de droga transportados por drones a través de la frontera. Sus contrapartes mexicanas han restado importancia a la amenaza.
A British coroner ruled that a Texas man acted with gross negligence when he accidentally shot his 23-year-old daughter, who was visiting from Britain last year.
The Trump administration blamed the disruptive halt on a cartel drone incursion, but others have disputed that explanation.
U.S. officials say they have seized thousands of pounds of drugs flown in by drones over the border. Mexican officials have downplayed the threat.
No flights would be allowed to or from the airport for 10 days under a flight restriction order that cited unspecified “special security reasons.”
A group of Buddhist monks arrived in Washington on Tuesday, in the final stretch of their “Walk for Peace,” which began four months ago in Texas.
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Republican politicians and strategists in Texas are amping up anti-Muslim rhetoric as a way to energize Republican voters after several elections when the border was the animating force.
A small group of conservative activists has worked for 16 years to stop all government efforts to fight climate change. Their efforts seem poised to pay off.
The unions representing pilots and flight attendants have in recent days publicly criticized American for falling behind Delta Air Lines and United Airlines.
Researchers and volunteers in Texas documented birds of different species preening one another. Experts say the behavior may be more common than documented.
A diverse swath of Americans searching for calmness and clarity said they found some, thanks to the Buddhist monks on a 2,300-mile trek from Texas to Washington.
Prosecutors said the doctor, John Stevenson Bynon Jr., had cut five patients off from liver transplant eligibility for months without their knowledge. He has pleaded not guilty.
The court ruled that it was unconstitutional to bar state agencies from investing with firms that the state had accused of boycotting the oil industry.
Immigrants apprehended in Minnesota are being sent to a gigantic West Texas detention center where lawyers and detainees say conditions are deplorable, then released in El Paso to find their way home.
Over 40,000 home purchase agreements were canceled in December, a 14.9 percent increase from the year before.
Senator John Cornyn, once seen as a potential Republican leader in his chamber, is now depending on wealthy party donors to survive a right-wing challenge.
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First came a remarkable State Senate upset. Next up: two high-octane U.S. Senate primaries.
Many Americans are growing both exhausted and frightened by Trump’s scorched-earth, hyperpartisan, fire-ready-aim approach to the presidency.
The Department of Homeland Security has imposed a quarantine on a family detention center in Dilley, Texas, after two detainees contracted the disease.
Taylor Rehmet, a machinist and union leader, pulled off a stunning State Senate win in Fort Worth and its suburbs. He is among several political outsiders seeking office.
A federal judge had demanded that the boy and his father be set free in a fiery opinion on Saturday.
Readers respond to a guest essay about the state’s effort to bar “officially disapproved ideas” from its university classrooms.
Children do not deserve immigration detention.
A Democrat won a state legislative special election in a district that President Trump carried by 17 percentage points, unnerving Republicans in Texas and beyond.
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A judicial order freeing a 5-year-old boy and his father, detained by federal immigration authorities.
The treatment of Liam Conejo Ramos, pictured wearing a blue winter hat and Spider-Man backpack while in the custody of immigration agents, drew outrage across the country.
Public health advocates hoped that the measles outbreak might persuade the reluctant to get shots. That has not turned out to be true.
Experts worry that if vaccination rates do not improve, deadly outbreaks will become the new normal.
El fármaco se ha convertido en una especie de símbolo de resistencia a lo que algunos en el movimiento MAGA describen como una élite corrupta.
Five years after the pandemic began, interest in the anti-parasitic drug is rising again as right-wing influencers promote it — and spread misinformation about it.
The industry is pumping ever more oil and natural gas, but it is doing so with only about three-quarters as many workers as it employed a decade ago.
Officials are moving to increase enforcement and change laws in response to the rise in counterfeit or expired plates, which exploded during the pandemic.
Assessing the academic skills of elementary and middle school students matters more than ever.
The new contract would provide raises and better benefits, following similar deals at other big airlines.
Since the end of a pandemic-era policy that barred states from removing people from Medicaid, Texas has dropped over half a million people from the program, more than any other state.
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.
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