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This summer is on track to be among Texas’ most extreme

June was only the 16th-warmest on record in Texas, but a mid-month heatwave brought an unusually high number of 100-degree days.

The Texas Tribune

Eight teens wounded in shooting at party in El Paso

More than 100 teens reportedly attended the party

The Independent UK

El Paso Walmart shooter sentenced to 90 life terms

EL PASO, Texas – PPatrick Crusius, the confessed mass shooter who pleaded guilty to killing 23 people at an El Paso Walmart nearly four years ago, was sentenced Friday to 90 consecutive life terms in federal prison.

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US man gets 90 life sentences for racist El Paso Walmart attack

Patrick Crusius, who killed 23 in an anti-immigrant attack that targeted Hispanic shoppers, still faces state charges.

Al Jazeera

El Paso Walmart shooter sentenced to 90 consecutive life terms

Patrick Crusius in February pleaded guilty to 90 federal hate crimes and firearms violations in the racist mass shooting.

Axios

El Paso Walmart shooter Patrick Crusius sentenced to 90 life terms

EL PASO, Texas – Patrick Crusius, the confessed mass shooter who pleaded guilty to killing 23 people at an El Paso Walmart nearly four years ago, was formally sentenced Friday to 90 consecutive life terms in federal prison.

Tribune News Service

Gunman in 2019 El Paso mass shooting receives 90 life sentences

Patrick Crusius pleaded guilty and was sentenced Friday in federal court. He still faces state charges, and the local district attorney says he intends to seek the death penalty.

The Texas Tribune

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Shooter who killed 23 at Texas Walmart gets 90 consecutive life sentences and may still face death penalty

‘Patrick’s thinking is at odds with reality … resulting in delusional thinking,’ defence attorney says of 24-year-old gunman

The Independent UK

Relatives of El Paso Walmart shooting victims seek justice, saying they're down but not out

Family members of the 23 people killed in a racist attack at a Texas Walmart are confronting the gunman face-to-face in court for the first time since the 2019 massacre

The Independent UK

“I want them to haunt you”: Man who killed 23 at El Paso Walmart hears from victims’ families

During the gunman’s sentencing, relatives of those killed nearly four years ago are telling him how he upended their lives.

The Texas Tribune

El Paso, Elsewhere is the edgy Superhot I never knew I needed

El Paso, Elsewhere is an edgy, bloody, and unexpected spiritual successor to Superhot in all the right ways.

TechRadar

Woman who 'shot Uber driver she mistook as kidnapper' charged with murder

Authorities say Phoebe Copas from Kentucky was taking an Uber when she saw a road sign in El Paso, Texas, reading 'Juarez, Mexico', a notorious cartel hotspot just across the border. Fearing her driver was kidnapping her she pulled out a gun and shot him in the head

Daily Mirror

‘State-sanctioned kidnapping’: Texas sheriff aids probe into new DeSantis migrant flights

The Texas sheriff who last week recommended criminal charges for those behind Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ so-called migrant relocation program is collaborating with California authorities who announced a similar criminal investigation following recent flights that brought migrants from El Paso to Sacramento.

McClatchy Washington Bureau

Texas to install '1,000ft floating wall' to stop migrants

The Rio Grande was the scene of a big incursion in 2022 when 1,700 migrants cross into El Paso in just one weekend

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Title 42 and the real border surge

Out-trumping Trump at the border

The Independent UK

DeSantis recruiters eyed Catholic church for migrant flights that bishop calls ‘reprehensible’

Mark Seitz, the Roman Catholic bishop of El Paso, Texas, tells The Associated Press that Florida Gov_ Ron DeSantis' flights of migrants from the Texas border to California are “reprehensible” and “not morally acceptable.”

The Conversation

Title 42 didn't result in a surge of migration, after all – but border communities are still facing record-breaking migration

U.S. government officials and media alike made widespread predictions that there would be a surge of migration across the U.S.-Mexico border in May 2023.

Salon

Charges over DeSantis' migrant stunt

"State-sanctioned kidnapping is not a public policy choice, it is immoral and disgusting," Calif. AG Rob Bonta says

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Sheriff files criminal charges over Florida’s transport of migrants from San Antonio to Massachusetts

The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office didn’t say who it has accused of unlawful restraint in connection with last year’s flight to Martha’s Vineyard paid for by Florida. On Monday, California announced it’s investigating similar flights from El Paso to Sacramento.

The Texas Tribune

Without access to water lines, Texas colonias residents are pulling water from the desert air

Thousands of low-income, Latino residents in Texas still do not have safe drinking water. In one El Paso colonia, some residents are using solar distillation to generate water from the air.

The Independent UK

‘In the hands of God’: One Venezuelan family's journey to the US

When Luis López was lost in Panama's Darien Gap last year with his pregnant wife, their two children and her grandmother, he often knelt in the mud to beg God not to abandon them

The Guardian - US

Calm prevails at US-Mexico border after Title 42 migration restrictions lifted

Situation at the border stands in contrast to Republican fear-mongering as Biden officials establish strict new policies

The Guardian - US

Title 42 migration restrictions have ended, but Biden’s new policy is tougher

President pledged as a candidate to dismantle Trump’s hardline immigration agenda but new rules are more restrictive

The Independent UK

Chaos on Mexico border averted, for now, as US turns page in migration rules

The U.S. has turned the page on pandemic-era immigration restrictions with relative calm at its border with Mexico as migrants adapt to strict new rules aimed at discouraging illegal crossings and await the promise of new legal pathways into the country

WEKU

Fear and confusion, but not chaos, along the southern border after Title 42 ends

The pandemic-era policy nearly halted the processing of asylum applications. As Title 42 was lifted on Thursday, officials braced for an influx of migrants. But the reality was relatively calm.

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