A federal judge ruled Thursday that the migrant surge at the southern border is not an “invasion” under the Constitution and ordered Texas state officials not to enforce a new law creating state penalties for being in the country illegally. Judge David Alan Ezra said what Texas is trying to do sounds like “nullification” of […]
CANADIAN, Texas (AP) — A wildfire spreading across the Texas Panhandle became the largest in state history Thursday, as a dusting of snow covered scorched grassland, dead cattle and burned out homes and gave firefighters a brief window of relief in desperate efforts to corral the blaze. The Smokehouse Creek fire grew to nearly 1,700 […]
Hulu will allow a church in Fort Worth, Texas, to air ads for a weeknight worship service after the streaming service reversed a decision to reject the 22-second spot as “religious indoctrination,” the church’s pastor says. Wes Hamilton, pastor of Hulen Street Church, said he wanted to advertise a Thursday night service for those who […]
FRITCH, Texas. (AP) — The small town of Fritch is again picking through the rubble of a Texas wildfire, a decade after another destructive blaze burned hundreds of homes and left deep scars in the Panhandle community. Residents in and around Fritch and other rural towns fled for safety Tuesday afternoon as high winds whipped […]
NEWS AND OPINION: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and voters in the Lone Star State are on the same page when it comes to immigration challenges. “A majority of Texas voters support making it harder for migrants fleeing violence in their home countries to seek asylum in the U.S., while majorities also support many of the […]
CANADIAN, Texas (AP) – A cluster of wildfires scorched the Texas Panhandle on Wednesday, including a blaze that grew into one of the largest in state history, as flames moved with alarming speed and blackened the landscape across a vast stretch of small towns and cattle ranches. Authorities warned that the damage to communities on […]
Wildfires raging through the Texas panhandle caused a nuclear weapons facility to pause operations amid evacuations and a disaster declaration from Gov. Greg Abbott that covered 60 counties. Pantex, where most of America’s nuclear weapons are assembled or disassembled, shut down Tuesday night due to the fires, according to CBS. The facility reopened on Wednesday. […]
CANADIAN, Texas — Rapidly moving Texas wildfires Tuesday prompted evacuation orders in small towns and shut down a nuclear facility as strong winds, dry grass and unseasonably warm temperatures fueled the blaze in the state’s rural Panhandle. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott issued a disaster declaration for 60 counties as the largest fire burned nearly 400 […]
Michael Cargill, owner of Central Texas Gun Works, surrendered his bump stocks after the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives banned them in 2018 in the aftermath of a shooting that killed 60 people in Las Vegas. Bump stocks were used by the gunman in the 2017 massacre. Though they are not firearms themselves, […]
General Motors’ self-driving taxi company Cruise says it will restart operations in Texas, just months after the company was kicked out of California over safety concerns. Cruise says it likely will restart operations in Dallas and Houston soon, but it will not have any passengers at first. The company plans to have fewer than 10 […]
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