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Texas Land Commissioner Treads Carefully as Trump Border Wall Advances on State Property

Border wall construction in the Big Bend region puts Republican Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham in a bind: back President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda or respond to growing bipartisan opposition to the wall. The Texas General Land Office manages 13 million acres across the state, much of it in far West Texas. Among its holdings […]

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Second Ship Ablaze Off Romanian Coast as Drone Strikes MountRomania reported that a second commercial vessel caught fire near its territorial waters in the space of 12 hours, amid a rise in suspected drone strikes in the Black Sea.

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Homeland Security investigative unit in spotlight in Omar probeRep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., dismissed a probe by HSI as politically motivated. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

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Lawyers for NY man shot by ICE say officer fired into car without warningThe lawyers for Oscar Belgal disclosed the more detailed sequence of events in a petition filed in Brooklyn federal court Wednesday seeking his release.

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Suspect in sexual assault of Nevada child arrested at Texas border after trying to leave US, officials sayA man accused of sexually assaulting a child in Reno, Nevada was arrested at the Texas border after federal officials said he was caught trying to leave the country.

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Why a Senate win for Abdul El-Sayed has Capitol Hill running scaredAs a US senator, El-Sayed would pose a massive threat to American national security: He’s running as a thinly veiled Trojan horse on behalf of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Islamism it embodies.

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Talarico slithered around the truth at his town hall. Here’s the gaslighting he tried to pull.Radical Democrat James Talarico attempted to woo Republicans and independents at a town hall in Fort Worth on Wednesday as he attempts to turn a Texas U.S. Senate seat blue for the first time in more than 30 years. This attempt evidently relied on deception. 'That industry is not gonna last.' In addition to claiming that "the Bible is silent on the issue…

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Noem 'confident Ilhan Omar will finally be held accountable'Kristi Noem, the former secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), said she was assured that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) would be “held accountable” if the lawmaker is found to have committed immigration fraud after federal agents raided her home Monday. Noem, whom President Trump fired in March after a tumultuous stint leading the...

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Fact Check: Breaking Down Talarico’s Claims at CNN Town HallDemocrat U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico appeared at CNN’s town hall Wednesday night, speaking to prospective voters. However, multiple claims made by him appear to be misleading or untrue. On the issue of border security, Talarico said during the town hall that he is a “border security Democrat” and did not support abolishing ICE. “I...

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Trump officials’ ‘bad weather’ excuse threatens to blow scandal wide open: ex-DHS officialA former Trump administration official says a flimsy excuse from U.S. officials could crack open a new scandal over President Donald Trump’s dealings with Russia. In a Thursday column , Miles Taylor, who served as chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security in Trump’s first term, argued that a string of events over the past week amounts to…

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'It's Actually Making It Worse': Jewish Dem Whose Son Attends Temple Israel Pans El-Sayed's Defense of 'Hurt People Hurt People' RemarkLeft-wing Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed defended his infamous statement that "hurt people hurt people," in which he justified the terrorist attack at a Michigan synagogue, telling NBC News that he was trying to help people "understand" the "cycle of violence." A Jewish Democrat whose son was attending preschool at the synagogue during the…

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How Texas landowners are fighting back against Trump's border wallThe Trump administration is pushing forward with a $46 billion border wall from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico

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"Incredible Moment for the Borderlands": Judge Blocks Border Wall Expansion in Big Bend & West TexasIn a victory for environmentalists and immigration rights’ advocates, a federal judge in El Paso, Texas, has blocked further border wall construction inside Big Bend National Park. “We slammed the brakes on $7 billion worth of corrupt construction contracts,” says Laiken Jordahl, a national public lands advocate with the Center for Biological Diversity,…

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Federal court allows SpaceX and Federal Government to proceed with Texas land exchangeA federal court has denied an injunction against a land exchange between SpaceX and the federal government, allowing the company to acquire over 700 acres of a South Texas wildlife refuge in exchange for 683 acres of private land.

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Texas landowners sue federal government over border wall plansA lawsuit filed Monday takes aim at federal agencies' use of waivers to expedite construction of a wall along the border with Mexico and claims that landowner's constitutional rights are being violated.

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