Six people who were found dead in a rail yard shipping container in Laredo, Texas, were from Honduras and Mexico and included a 14-year-old boy, all part of a human smuggling effort,…
Texas Monthly – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton blocks more than 130 cities from raising property taxes
Attorney General Ken Paxton accused the cities, most of them small, of violating a state law aimed at preventing cities from unduly raising property taxes. Read: Read More
Tech Crunch – OpenAI says Codex is coming to your phone
The update gives users enhanced flexibility over how they can manage their workflows. Read more: Read More
Border Report – Federal judge orders Trump administration to bring back a Colombian woman who was deported to Congo
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to bring a Colombian woman back to the U.S. from Congo, after she was deported to the African nation even though it had refused…
El Paso Matters – Frances Maldonado faces Christina Montes in Democratic runoff for El Paso County Court at Law No. 2
A lawyer who started her career working for the District Attorney’s Office over a decade ago is running against a lawyer with ties to a local bail bonds company in the May…
Tech Crunch – Lovable just backed a company that’s looking to bring vibe coding to hardware
Hardware company Atech raised $800,000 in pre-seed funding, including from a16z’s scout fund, Sequoia Scout Fund, and Nordic Makers. Read more: Read More
Tech Crunch – Cerebras IPO makes billions for Benchmark but VC Eric Vishria almost didn’t take the meeting
Benchmark almost never backs hardware startups. So Eric Vishria dragged his feet ten years ago before agreeing to hear Cerebras’ pitch. Read more: Read More
Border Report – US Border Patrol chief Michael Banks is resigning, in latest DHS leadership change
The head of U.S. Border Patrol, the agency tasked with securing the nation’s frontiers and increasingly tapped by the Trump administration for immigration operations in American cities, announced his resignation Thursday. Michael…
Border Report – Drug overdose deaths declined last year, except in these 8 states
For a third consecutive year, fatal drug overdose deaths declined in the U.S. Unfortunately, not every state has followed that trend. Read: Read More
Border Report – Four killed in medical aircraft crash in New Mexico that ignited wildfire
The fire associated with the crash is under five acres, and the U.S. Forest Service is working with fire crews to extinguish it. Read: Read More