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Ted Cruz and Beto O'Rourke trade attacks during testy first Texas Senate debate
Republican Ted Cruz and Democrat Beto O'Rourke repeatedly traded barbs during a testy first debate Friday night, underscoring how a Texas Senate race that long looked like a cakewalk for the conservative incumbent now appears to be anything but one. Cruz went on the attack ...
Texas Border Patrol boss held on $2.5 million bond over slayings of at least four women
A U.S. Border Patrol supervisor was jailed Sunday on $2.5 million bond in Texas, accused in the killing of at least four women and of injuring a fifth who managed to escape. Juan David Ortiz, 35, was being held in Laredo on four counts of ...
U.S. Border Patrol agent arrested in serial killings of sex workers
Texas state troopers arrested a U.S. Border Patrol supervisor Saturday who they say went on a two-week serial killing spree that left four female sex workers dead and ended only when a fifth woman escaped from him at a gas station and found help. Juan ...
JR Tokai sets up unit in Texas with eye on orders for the state's bullet train project
Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai), has set up a wholly owned subsidiary in Dallas in an effort to win orders related to a project to build a high-speed railway in Texas. JR Tokai, the operator of the Tokaido Shinkansen line linking Tokyo with Osaka, ...
White Texas cop found guilty of murder in death of unarmed black teen in high-profile shooting
A Texas jury found a white police officer guilty of murder Tuesday for the shooting death of a 15-year-old African-American boy — a rare conviction resulting from a high-profile police shooting case. Roy Oliver fired five bullets into a car full of teens last year, ...
Texas U.S. bases Fort Bliss, Goodfellow tapped to hold migrant detainees
The Trump administration has chosen an Army base and an Air Force base, both in Texas, to house detained migrants swept up in the federal government's crackdown on illegal immigration, several defense officials said Monday. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were ...
First lady makes surprise visit to Texas detention center holding migrant kids
Melania Trump made an unannounced visit to a Texas facility Thursday, talking with children and staff as she got a first-hand look at some of the migrant children sent there by the U.S. government after their families entered the country illegally. The first lady's stop ...
Trump's migrant child detentions mean $458 million for nonprofit minder
The Trump administration plans to pay a Texas nonprofit nearly half a billion dollars this year to care for immigrant children who were detained crossing the U.S. border illegally, according to government data. The nonprofit, Southwest Key Programs Inc., is to be paid more than ...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday threw out a lower court ruling that let a pregnant illegal immigrant minor held in federal immigration custody obtain an abortion last year at age 17 over the objections of President Donald Trump's administration. The justices provided a legal ...
Victims and survivors of mass shootings in Texas took part in a final round of talks on Thursday with Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who is seeking ways to stop gun massacres after a shooter killed 10 people in a Houston-area high school. The talks are ...
Democratic voters have chosen black and Latina women as their candidates for governor in Georgia and Texas, historic wagers for a party embracing minorities and women ahead of November's pivotal midterm elections. As President Donald Trump's Republicans struggle to craft a strategy for defending their ...
'Do something': Parkland students express anger after Texas shooting
Survivors of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, took to social media to express outrage and heartbreak after a student opened fire at a high school in Texas on Friday, killing 10 people. The shooting at Santa Fe High School marks the deadliest school shooting ...
