Rumor sends hundreds of migrants rushing for U.S. border at El Paso
"They threw tear gas at us," said one of the Venezuelans frustrated by a new U.S. government app meant to handle asylum applications.
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"They threw tear gas at us," said one of the Venezuelans frustrated by a new U.S. government app meant to handle asylum applications.
Police in El Paso, Texas, say a 16-year-old boy who fatally shot a 17-year-old boy and wounded two other people during a fight at a mall faces a murder charge and three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
A high school student confessed to sending a hoax bomb threat via AirDrop that resulted in an American Airlines flight being diverted from the tarmac at a Texas airport last week, authorities said.
A shooting at a Texas mall that left one person dead and three others wounded began as a confrontation between two groups in the food court, police said Thursday.
At around 5:05 p.m., a shooting was reported at Cielo Vista Mall, which is across the street from a Walmart where a gunman killed 23 people in a racist attack in 2019.
El Paso police responded to a shooting in the food court at Cielo Vista Mall Wednesday night.
El Paso police responded to a shooting in the food court at Cielo Vista Mall Wednesday night.
A Texas man pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges accusing him of killing nearly two dozen people in a racist attack at an El Paso Walmart in 2019.
The man accused of killing nearly two dozen people in a racist attack at an El Paso Walmart plans to plead guilty to federal charges in the case, according to court records.
Federal prosecutors won't seek the death penalty for Patrick Crusius, the man accused of killing 23 people in a racially-motivated shooting at an El Paso Walmart in 2019.
New York has offered roughly 40,000 migrants shelter, food and other services since last year in an effort city officials project will cost over $1 billion.
The visit is his first to the U.S.-Mexico border as president.
President Biden will stop in El Paso before his trip to the Mexico City on Monday. It will be his first visit to the southern border as president. The news comes as the president outlines his strategy along the U.S.-Mexico border on Thursday morning at the White House in what was his first speech solely focused on border policy. Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/dfw/news/biden-to-visit-el-paso-in-first-trip-to-southern-border-as-president/
Since the first length of fencing went up last week along the Mexican border near El Paso, the Texas National Guard has installed over two miles of the barricade and is expected to build more.
Heavy snow and strong winds were hitting the Midwest and moving east. Thousands of flights have been canceled or delayed heading into the holiday weekend.
Dozens of migrants have been spending their nights on the concrete banks of the Rio Grande, awaiting a Supreme Court ruling in the cold.
Here's how Dallas nonprofits are ready to help the City of El Paso.
El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser issued the state of emergency declaration to allow the city on the U.S. border with Mexico to tap into additional resources.
The City of El Paso announced Wednesday it received a new $6 million commitment to underwrite its migrant response from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday named a new El Paso district attorney after the previous one resigned under mounting pressure over the handling of the 2019 Walmart attack that left 23 people dead and has yet to go to trial.
Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is overseeing a separate effort to bus migrants released from federal border custody to Washington, D.C., New York and Chicago.
At least seven migrants were detained three weeks after twin brothers shot at them in West Texas, claiming they mistook them for wild hogs.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at El Paso area ports of entry seized 18 pounds of cocaine, 27 pounds of heroin and 78 pounds of marijuana.
Police continue investigating the death of a Southwest Airlines worker who was shot near an employee parking lot at the airport in El Paso.
A man who drew worldwide sympathy and support after his wife was killed in the mass shooting at an El Paso Walmart has died.
