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Walmart has faced calls to ban gun sales for years. Will Chesapeake change that?

By nature of its enormous size, with thousands of stores across the US, the nation’s largest retailer is at the centre of debate over retail gun sales and a familiar place for American violence, Alex Woodward reports

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Gov. Greg Abbott embraces “invasion” language about border, evoking memories of El Paso massacre

In the days since Abbott was reelected for a third term, he has embraced the word like never before, using it in a letter to President Joe Biden, echoing the intensifying language many Republicans have adopted in recent years.

The Texas Tribune

Dozens of SAT tests have been lost after flying out of an El Paso UPS truck

El Paso High School students' SAT answer sheets flew from the UPS truck transporting them last week. All but 55 were recovered, and students may have to retake their tests.

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Beto O’Rourke has lost three races in four years. Is his political career over?

He has been the Texas Democratic Party’s great hope. But after failed runs for senator, president and governor, observers wonder if he has a political future.

The Texas Tribune

Beto O’Rourke embraced underdog role, courted young and independent Texas voters

EL PASO, Texas — Win or lose Tuesday, Beto O’Rourke’s legacy in this border town is already cemented as a hometown boy whose quest for higher office helped reclaim the narrative of an underdog city, supporters and analysts here say.

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US voters hit hardest by climate crisis: ‘I need politicians to care about this’

The devastating effects of climate change are motivating how voters cast their ballots in the midterm elections

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El Paso district attorney faces trial to oust her from office over incompetency, misconduct claims

El Paso County District Attorney Yvonne Rosales has been accused of bungling cases and is ensnared in controversy surrounding prosecution of the alleged gunman in the 2019 Walmart massacre.

The Texas Tribune

US Border Patrol sending migrants to offices with no notice

The Associated Press interviewed about a dozen migrants who recently arrived in the U.S. and agreed to share documents they received when they were released from U.S. custody while they seek asylum after crossing the border with Mexico

The Independent UK

Dallas, El Paso veterans’ facilities will get $442 million in upgrades

The funds will help expand the Dallas facility into a long-term spinal cord injury treatment center and pay for a new health care facility in El Paso.

The Texas Tribune

Texas may delay trial for alleged Walmart shooter if federal prosecutors want to seek death penalty

A state district judge in El Paso said Tuesday that he’ll wait to see what federal prosecutors decide in their case before moving ahead with a state trial for the man accused of killing 23 shoppers in 2019.

The Texas Tribune

El Paso struggles to house migrants after shelter closes as border crossings surge

City’s new facility has to find shelters for those without alternative after a 40-year beacon of refuge shuttered earlier this year

The Guardian - US

Chaos surrounding rookie El Paso DA Yvonne Rosales fuels concerns about Walmart massacre prosecution

Mistakes and backbiting have engulfed the El Paso County district attorney’s office. Some question whether she is competent to handle one of the most high-profile death penalty cases in recent Texas history.

The Texas Tribune

New York City mayor declares state of emergency over busing of migrants from Texas

Mayor Eric Adams said the city needs emergency funding to provide shelter to migrants and other people without housing. He also asked El Paso to stop sending migrants there.

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Democrat-led Texas city steps up migrant busing to New York, outpacing Republican effort

The Democrat-led border city of El Paso, Texas, has sent more migrants on buses to New York City and Chicago than a campaign by Texas' Republican governor, a twist in an ongoing partisan battle over U.S. border security.

The Texas Tribune

Suspects in migrant shooting went to a meeting after firing fatal shots, police report says

Michael Sheppard, one of the suspects, was the warden of an immigration detention center that was the subject of several human rights abuse complaints in 2018.

The Texas Tribune

Warden of West Texas immigration detention center arrested in migrant’s death was previously accused of abusing detainees

The brothers reportedly told law enforcement they were looking for animals to shoot. One man was killed and a woman was injured.

Tribune News Service

Texas mayor says there is a humanitarian way to bus migrants

El Paso’s mayor defended using charter buses to transport migrants out of the West Texas city, saying that the trips were voluntary and coordinated with officials at the destination.

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El Paso scrambles to move migrants off the streets and gives them free bus rides as shelters reach capacity

One Venezuelan couple slept on a sidewalk after a perilous trip through seven countries with their baby. After two days in El Paso, they boarded a city-funded charter bus to New York City.

Tribune News Service

El Paso joins Texas Gov. Abbott’s strategy of busing migrants to New York, other East Coast cities

EL PASO, Texas — A chartered bus carrying migrants is scheduled to leave El Paso for New York on Tuesday, marking the first time city and county officials have agreed to work with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.

Los Angeles Times

Inside Lincoln Riley's Air Raid offense, known for constant evolution and misdirection

The ideas that would one day inspire a football revolution had been rattling around in Hal Mumme's head for a few years before he finally had the chance to use them. It was 1986, and Mumme had just lost his job as Texas El Paso's offensive coordinator. With nowhere to…

The Texas Tribune

Beto O’Rourke pauses campaign events while recovering from bacterial infection

O’Rourke said he is resting at home in El Paso and will be back on the road “as soon as I am able.”

The Texas Tribune

“Thanks, and God bless you”: Asylum-seekers allowed to enter U.S. after “remain in Mexico” ends

Two weeks after a federal judge allowed the Biden administration to end the Trump-era Migrant Protection Protocols, U.S. judges are beginning to allow migrants to stay in the country as their asylum claims are pending.

Tribune News Service

As wave of violence plagues Mexico, US issues travel alert

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — The day was dubbed “Black Thursday” as violence, fear and panic engulfed this Mexican border city, across El Paso, leaving at least a dozen dead.

The New Daily

Watch: Woman rescued after vehicle plunges into sinkhole

A woman in the US has been rescued after her vehicle fell into a sinkhole, trapping her at an intersection in El Paso, Texas.

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