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As West Texas temperatures soar, border agencies say new tools are saving migrants’ lives

VAN HORN, Texas — Culberson County Sheriff Oscar Carrillo is haunted by the sight last year of a father clinging to life next to his son who succumbed to the brutal heat in an unforgiving desert.

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Cruz "does nothing" about gun violence

Cruz was asked to explain his gun violence action plan during Wednesday's Judiciary Committee hearing

Salon

Uvalde lawmaker snubbed from committee

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick also snubbed other lawmakers whose districts were affected by other Texas mass shootings

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5 years. 5 mass shootings. 87 dead in Texas. What gun laws could have applied in each case?

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas has experienced multiple mass shootings in recent years.

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O'Rourke bets shooting will shake up Texas governor's race

Democrat Beto O'Rourke briefly seized the presidential race spotlight in 2019 when he declared after a mass shooting his hometown of El Paso, Texas, that “Hell yes, we're gonna take your AR-15.”

The Independent UK

Uvalde massacre stirs up painful memories of 2019 mass shooting for El Paso residents

“When we hear about shootings, it takes us to that time," one El Paso leader said.

Axios

Beto O’Rourke interrupts news conference, tells Texas governor: ‘This is on you!’

UVALDE, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott was confronted by political rival and former U.S. Rep. Robert “Beto” O’Rourke at a Wednesday news briefing, where officials gave details about the mass shooting at a local elementary school in Uvalde. Three adults — including the gunman — and 19 students were…

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The deadliest mass shootings in the US, from Columbine to Sandy Hook

The US has broken the record for the most mass shootings in single year after weekend murders

Evening Standard

After mass shootings in 2018 and 2019, Texas lawmakers made it easier to get guns

FORT WORTH, Texas — More than a dozen students and a teacher are dead after a mass shooting at a Texas elementary school.

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A quest for significance gone horribly wrong – how mass shooters pervert a universal desire to make a difference in the world

Agonizing questions are being raised by the recent tragic shooting incident in Buffalo, New York, where 18-year-old Payton S. Gendron is alleged to have shot 10 people dead and wounded three. As in the recent years’ similar acts of horror at a synagogue in Pittsburgh, a Walmart in El Paso,…

The Conversation

Migrants in Texas increasingly subject to kidnapping, extortion, other abuse, FBI says

EL PASO, Texas – Migrants are increasingly becoming victims to kidnapping, extortion, ransoms and physical abuse in this border region, targeted by local gangs, working with major criminal organizations, the FBI said Monday.

Tribune News Service

Woman recorded cell phone video of the moment she was accidentally shot and killed

Pair had been shooting guns in desert outside El Paso

The Independent UK

Mexico’s Lopez Obrador says Abbott’s costly border checks that snarled traffic were ‘despicable’

EL PASO, Texas — Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Monday slammed Texas Governor Greg Abbott over his stepped up inspections of commercial trucks at the border, which for 10 days disrupted trade and the supply chain between both countries.

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Prayer, worship lift unaccompanied migrant teens in shelters

Every Sunday afternoon since last Easter, teens kneel by a makeshift altar at Fort Bliss and pray so hard that tears stream down their faces

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Truckers protest Abbott's border rules

Truckers are blocking the Mexico-Texas border after Abbott deployed state troopers to inspect vehicles

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Texas Gov. Abbott warns sheriffs of ‘cataclysmic’ wave of migrant crossings at the border

EL PASO, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott warned border sheriffs here Monday that they will face a “cataclysmic” number of migrants coming across the border beginning next month as he underscored his desire for a border wall and explained the use of charter buses to transport people who cross…

Benzinga

Mister Car Wash Promotes Mayra Chimienti As Operations Head

Mister Car Wash Inc (NYSE:MCW) has promoted Mayra Chimienti to the role of Chief Operating Officer (COO), effective immediately. Chimienti will oversee operations, human resources, integrations, project management, learning & development, and internal communications. Chimienti joined the company in 2007 as the Regional Trainer for the El Paso market. She recently served as…

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Jay Ambrose: We can win this Cold War, too

Some years ago, when I was editor of a now-defunct newspaper in El Paso, Texas, my wife and I bought a house with a deteriorated, spider-filled, filthy, underground fallout shelter in the backyard. It made me shudder, not because of its appearance, but because it represented past fears of the…

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Immigrant investors on edge as EB-5 lapse enters eighth month

WASHINGTON — Dr. Chandra Ojha, a cardiologist in El Paso, Texas, is used to demanding work. But lately, Ojha, who has waited more than three years for his green card through a since-expired government program, has been “feeling the stress.”

The Independent UK

Police say El Paso man beat sister to death after she broke their incestuous relationship

Man tried to clean up blood from the crime scene but decided to flee as he heard the sounds of law enforcement coming closer

Benzinga

Texas Original Compassionate Cultivation Opens Pick-Up Cannabis Location in El Paso, Texas

Texas Original Compassionate Cultivation Texas is opening of its newest prescription pick-up location in El Paso, Texas, for patients who qualify under the Compassionate Use Program (CUP).

Benzinga

Resideo Technologies To Acquire First Alert From Newell Brands For $593M Cash

Resideo Technologies Inc (NYSE:REZI) has agreed to acquire First Alert Inc, a home safety products provider, from Newell Brands Inc (NASDAQ:NWL) for $593 million in an all-cash transaction. First Alert offers a portfolio of detection and suppression devices, including smoke alarms, carbon monoxide (CO) alarms, combination alarms, connected fire, and CO devices. For the…

Texas Observer

In El Paso, a Holocaust Museum and a ‘Rebirth’ of Faith

January 27 is Holocaust Remembrance Day. El Paso and a handful of other Texas cities are home to museums that educate on racism and connect the community.

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