Texas Democrats on Thursday slammed the GOP's unusual push to redraw the state's House maps to win more seats ahead of the 2026 elections. Republican Gov.

At the first of at least seven hearings, members of the public aired grievances about the unusual mid-decade redistricting effort.

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