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Trump’s top border official defends Big Bend border wall plan despite mounting opposition

CBP commissioner Rodney Scott says $46bn Texas project is justified amid court-ordered pause on wall’s construction The Trump administration’s top border official defended plans to build a wall and other infrastructure in the Big Bend of Texas despite mounting opposition against the project and a court-ordered pause on construction, saying his goal of…

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Seven killed as gunmen open fire at church in Jordan, authorities say - Fri, 23 Oct 2026 PSTSeven people were killed on Friday when gunmen opened fire during a funeral at a church in Jordan, said the head of the country's Public Security Directorate, in a rare attack on the country's Christian minority authorities described as a terrorist act carried out by extremists.

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A Democratic win in Texas is a long shot – but Ken Paxton’s weakness is obvious | Moira DoneganRepublicans are resorting to childish taunts to defend an uncommonly dishonorable state attorney general It’s a bit like Lucy with the football. Every few years, Democrats convince themselves that a Texas Senate seat might finally switch from red to blue. On paper, it makes sense. Texas is a large and urbanizing state with an increasingly educated – and…

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White House blasts Biden border policies ahead of Trump Florida visit, citing brutal hammer killingPresident Donald Trump's Fort Myers rally spotlights the brazen hammer killing of a Florida mother by a Haitian national the White House says was released under Biden's border policies.

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DHS to test military-grade ‘heat ray’ that causes an ‘irresistible urge to run’ to protect southern borderThe Department of War recently gave the green light for the Department of Homeland Security to test a "heat ray" weapon for potential use at the southern border. According to a memo obtained by CNN , Secretary of War Pete Hegseth authorized the DHS to test a military-grade heat ray and to develop tactics for its use at the southern border. The beam…

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FEMA awards $1.1 million to Izard County for 2025 storms, plus $539,000 to Arkansas for 2024 floodingArkansas and Izard County will receive a total of $1.6 million in federal funding for repairs to a bridge and to fund mitigation planning following severe weather events in 2025 and 2024, a news release from the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Thursday.

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First lady Melania Trump successfully negotiates ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine for occupied cityHumanitarian aid will be arriving for the residents of a Ukrainian city thanks to the efforts of first lady Melania Trump. The first lady said in a press release Friday that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to cease military action in the city of Oleshky and allow a civilian evacuation. 'What she wants to do is save children, and that’s her focus. ... She…

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Mike Johnson asks Trump for more midterm money as Republicans seek to avert disaster in House racesBy Sarah Ferris, David Wright, CNN (CNN) — In the final sprint to the midterms, Speaker Mike Johnson went to President Donald Trump with a crucial ask, according to a person familiar with the exchange. Johnson’s message: Could Trump spare more cash to help House Republicans in this tough political climate? He wasn’t the only

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Mystery of feds at polling site solved with ‘most comical explanation possible’The federal agents whose surprise appearance at a Tallahassee early voting site triggered an FBI complaint this week had a baffling excuse, officials now say, as they thought they could stop and vote on their way out of the state. Two U.S. Customs and Border Protection vehicles parked at the Bruce J. Host Northeast Branch Library, Leon County’s busiest…

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Kristi Noem caught faking State Dept letterhead to swat down firing rumors: reportAmid rumors she was being ousted from the State Department, former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem put out what looked like an official press release on social media stating she was still a “senior adviser,” according to a report by Politico's National Security Daily. Two people familiar with her work at the department said State’s leadership…

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Trump’s surveillance towers can see into neighborhoods — and are ‘always watching’President Donald Trump’s expanding AI border surveillance system can watch people leaving their homes, children on playgrounds and even inside a bedroom window, a New York Times investigation found. More than a million people in the United States and Mexico live within potential view of the AI-powered towers, according to the newspaper’s analysis. “It…

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Federal Court Temporarily Blocks Trump Administration Border Wall in Texas' Big Bend RegionWASHINGTON (AP) — A federal court in Texas on Friday issued a ruling temporarily blocking the Trump administration from building a border wall and other infrastructure across the state's Big Bend region.

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Texas landowners sue Trump administration over border, Big Bend constructionA group of private landowners in western and southwestern Texas filed a federal lawsuit Monday to stop the Trump administration from building border walls,

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Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow Big Bend border wall constructionThe Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Wednesday to clear the way for border wall construction to resume around Texas’s Big Bend region. Solicitor General D. John Sauer called a lower judge’s block on the construction “baseless” and said it disrupts the government’s ability to secure a quarter of the southern border. “Such judicial...

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Trump administration seeks Supreme Court approval to build Big Bend wallUS federal judge blocked wall’s construction on Texas-Mexico border amid an ongoing legal battle.

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