EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — A 38-year-old man was arrested after he was caught trying to smuggle illegal cockfighting equipment into the U.S. on Wednesday, Jan. 21, at the Paso del Norte…
Tech Crunch – Voice AI engine and OpenAI partner LiveKit hits $1B valuation
The five year-old-startup raised a $100 million round led by Index Ventures. Read more: Read More
Tech Crunch – Inference startup Inferact lands $150M to commercialize vLLM
The seed round values the newly formed startup at $800 million. Read more: Read More
Border Report – Los Zetas plaza boss, Clan de Golfo leader with South Texas ties among 37 cartel members sent to US
RIO GRANDE VALLEY, Texas (ValleyCentral) — A Los Zetas plaza boss and a Cartel del Golfo leader with South Texas ties are among the 37 Mexican cartel members who were transferred to…
Border Report – El Paso judge agrees to recusal in migrant child case amid family court handling scrutiny
(El Paso Matters) — Attorneys with the immigration advocacy group Estrella del Paso last month asked that District Court Judge Marlene Gonzalez recuse herself from a case involving an unaccompanied migrant minor,…
Texas Monthly – Behind the Fight for the Throne at the Texas Renaissance Festival
The Texas Renaissance Festival, in the woods northwest of Houston, is the nation’s largest attraction of its kind by attendance, drawing half a million visitors each year to a bygone fantasy land…
Border Report – Vance to local officials: Cooperate with the immigration crackdown
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Insisting that he was in Minnesota to help “lower the temperature,” Vice President JD Vance on Thursday blamed “far-left people” and state and local law enforcement officials for the chaos that has convulsed…
Tech Crunch – Are AI agents ready for the workplace? A new benchmark raises doubts.
New research looks at how leading AI models hold up doing actual white-collar work tasks, drawn from consulting, investment banking, and law. Most models failed. Read more: Read More
Tech Crunch – Microsoft 365 hit by outage, preventing access to emails and files
An hours-long outage is preventing Microsoft’s enterprise customers from accessing their inboxes, files, and video meetings. Read more: Read More
Fronterizo News – Politics and Hysteria: One U.S. Military Aircraft and Seven Mexican Military Aircraft Crossing the Border Was Just What the Conspiracy Buffs Needed
An American military plane lands in México, and seven Mexican military aircraft depart México to U.S. airports turns a routine matter into a conspiracy of an imminent attack on México by the…



