In Eagle Pass, Texas, nearly 6,000 migrants entered in two days, prompting authorities to close a border crossing to reassign officials to the influx. Border crossings have closed for similar reasons in San Diego and El Paso
The reigning World Series champion Astros will go into the final 10 days of the regular season with only a half-game lead in the AL West over both Seattle and Texas after all were off Thursday
He did not discuss accusations that he misused his office to protect a political donor, which were the backbone of Paxton becoming just the third sitting official in Texas’ nearly 200-year history to be impeached
Murdaugh, 55, is serving life without parole in a South Carolina prison for shooting his wife, Maggie, and younger son Paul.
Sales slumped 15.3% compared with the same month last year and are down 21% through the first eight months of the year versus the same stretch in 202
The former president will bypass the second Republican presidential debate on Sept. 27 to instead visit striking autoworkers in Michigan, where he has looked to position himself as an ally of blue-collar workers
His latest attempt to move ahead with a traditionally popular defense funding bill as a first step toward keeping the government funded was shattered by a core group of Republicans who refused to vote with the increasingly endangered speaker
The Republican Alabama senator said on Wednesday that he plans to hold up other nominations unless the Pentagon ends its abortion policy
The most detailed race and ethnicity data to date from the 2020 census was released Thursday. It was the first time respondents could identify themselves as coming from a Middle Eastern or North African country: 3.5 million people did
His son, Lachlan, will control both Fox and News Corp., while the 92-year-old media magnate will become chairman emeritus of both companies, effective at board meetings in November
The ex-attorney general of Guatemala wants to return to her home country, where she is hopeful President-elect Bernardo Arévalo will take office in January
Lasting victory in the chip war will only be within reach if its companies can live without serious government funding
The forum organized by EL PAÍS in New York highlights the joint ties and opportunities for cooperation to confront global challenges
The fire that destroyed the Hawaiian community of Lahaina, as well as the historic flooding in Vermont and Maine, are recent examples of events that could drive up insurance costs for homeowners in other states
Newman insists that she remains physically and mentally fit to decide matters of the law, and has accused her colleagues of making baseless claims in an effort to push her out because of her age
Libya’s state-owned telecommunications company says the outage began when fiber-optic cables in eastern Libya were severed Tuesday
Louis Milione had retired from the DEA this summer for a second time amid reporting by The Associated Press on potential conflicts caused by his prior consulting for the pharmaceutical industry
The office will coordinate efforts across the federal government and will offer help and guidance to states struggling with increasing gun violence
The president pushed the prime minister to find a compromise on a planned deep judicial reform that has set off protests in Israel and concerns in Washington
On Wednesday, Trump was making his first of five Iowa visits planned through the end of October. The former president faces sky-high expectations in the state in his campaign for a White House comeback
The decision lets stand most of the word choices targeted in a lawsuit by Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights, the pro-abortion rights ballot campaign, as well as the substitution of ‘unborn child’ for ‘fetus,’ which it chose not to dispute
While some of his classmates have worked on advocating for gun control, entered politics or simply took a step back to heal and focus on their studies, Kai Koerber’s took a different direction
In an announcement Wednesday, the White House said the program will employ more than 20,000 young adults who will build trails, plant trees, help install solar panels and do other work to boost conservation
The move to leave its benchmark rate at about 5.4% suggests that the Fed thinks it has time to wait and see if the 11 rate hikes it unleashed starting in March 2022 will continue to cool rising prices
Spain’s acting PM laid out his political project, emphasizing the environmental transition and reducing structural unemployment, at an EL PAÍS event in New York
While GOP representatives accused him of the ‘weaponization’ of the Justice Department, Garland responded: ‘Our job is not to take orders from the president, from Congress, or from anyone else, about who or what to criminally investigate’
In New York City alone, thousands of migrants have arrived over the past year. Mayor Eric Adams has increasingly sounded alarms, while Gov. Kathy Hochul is floating the idea of state-issued work permits
