The U.S. government is building an immense 5,000-person detention camp in west Texas, government contract announcements said, sharply increasing the Trump administration’s ability to hold detained immigrants amid its ever-growing mass deportation efforts.

The work would turn the Army base in El Paso, with more than 1 million acres and an airport, into a deportation hub with 5,000 beds, according to a

Texas lawmakers are scrutinizing the state’s emergency response to the July 4 floods that killed at least 136 people.

The deadly July 4 flash floods in Texas have prompted a lot of questions and soul-searching: about the failures of early-warning systems, the Trump administration’s cuts to the National Weather Service and disaster programs and the vulnerability of communities around the country to disasters worsened by climate change.

Models predicted a few inches of rain instead of the torrential onslaught that devastated Central Texas earlier this month, he said.

Texas A&M's rough collie mascot has had her right eye removed due to glaucoma. The university's president announced Wednesday that Reveille X underwent surgery after experiencing discomfort and cloudiness in her eye.

Reveille X, Texas A&M's iconic mascot, had surgery to remove her eye after being diagnosed with glaucoma, according to Texas A&M president Mark Welsh III.

Born in September 2019 and taking on official mascot duties in April 2021, Reveille X is the 10th Reveille in Aggies' history and the third born this century. Reveille I became th