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Governor Doug Ducey speaks to Arizona National Guard soldiers prior to deployment to the Mexico border Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas have pledged to send about 1,600 National Guard members to the US-Mexico border, responding to President Donald Trump's plan to use the military to help fight illegal immigration and drug trafficking. Texas governor Greg Abbott said he would add about 300 troops a week to the 250 members of the National Guard whose deployment was announced on Friday until the total number reaches at least 1,000 troops.
This image made from video released by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a toddler given oxygen through respirators foll... . FILE- In this May 19, 2015, file photo, R. Scott Turner, Professor of Neurology and Director of the Memory Disorder Center at Georgetown University Hospital, points to PET scan results that are part of a study on Alzheimer'... Scientists propose new way to define Alzheimer's disease using biological signs, such as brain changes, not just memory loss and other symptoms.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says his state will commit at least 1,000 National Guard troops to the Mexico border in response to President Donald Trump's call. Abbott told San Antonio radio station KTSA on Monday that the state will add around 300 Guard members a week.
Cruz Bryan while formally welcoming back Oregon Army National Guard members during a demobilization ceremony of the... . FILE--In this Jan. 9, 2017, file photo, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown delivers her inaugural speech in the Capitol House chambers in Salem, Ore.
In this Friday, Jan. 19, 2007 file photo, a National Guard unit patrols the Arizona-Mexico border in Sasabe, Ariz. On Friday, April 6, 2018, Arizona and Texas announced that they were preparing to deploy National Guard members to the U.S.-Mexico border in response to President Donald Trump's call for more border security.
The U.S. National Guard faces a vastly different environment than it did on its last two deployments to the border with Mexico, with far fewer illegal crossings and more Central Americans than Mexicans coming. Still, its role is shaping up much the same: moving more Border Patrol agents from behind-the-scenes jobs to the front lines.
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Two Texas congressman urged Texas universities to cut ties with Chinese government supported academic organizations, citing concern that the Chinese government could influence American education and possibly gather intelligence through their presence at schools. Republican Michael McCaul of Austin and Democrat Henry Cuellar of Laredo said in a joint statement Thursday they strongly urge universities to end their partnerships with the Confucius Institute.
President Donald Trump's administration said on Wednesday talks with Beijing could resolve an escalating U.S.-China trade fight after China retaliated against U.S. proposals to slap tariffs on $50 billion in Chinese goods by targeting key American imports with similar duties. Just 11 hours after the Trump administration proposed 25 percent tariffs on some 1,300 Chinese industrial, technology, transport and medical products, China responded with a list of similar duties on key American imports including soybeans, planes, cars, beef and chemicals.
Frustrated by slow action on a major campaign promise, US president Donald Trump has said he wants to use the military to secure the US-Mexico border until his promised border wall is built. "We're going to be doing things militarily.
In this July 9, 2014, file photo, riders go down the water slide called "Verruckt" at Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City, Kansas. Inset: Waterslide designer John Timothy Schooley John Timothy Schooley, the designer of the Kansas waterslide that killed a 10-year-old boy in 2016, and the owner of the water park where the tragedy occurred were charged Tuesday in the child's decapitation.
This undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Rosendo Rodriguez III. Attorneys for the Texas death row inmate known as the "suitcase killer" have appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to halt his scheduled execution this week for the slaying of a Lubbock woman whose body was stuffed inside a suitcase dumped in the trash.
While President Donald Trump continues to hammer the U.S.-Mexico border and illegal immigration, a recent study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas said immigrants, especially those from Mexico and Central America, power the vast Texas economy. Trump said Monday morning that he hopes Mexico "will stop people from coming through their country and into ours, at least until Congress changes our immigration laws!" Those Central Americans Trump referred to make up 8 percent of the state's foreign-born population, the study said.
Ted Cruz is visited Central Texas Monday as part of a three-day tour through 12 Texas cities to kick off the Republican Senator's 2018 reelection campaign. Sen. Cruz began the day in Beaumont, which is still recovering from Hurricane Harvey.
Senator Ted Cruz officially announced his re-election campaign Monday, using a new "Tough as Texas" slogan, championing the efforts of Texans in response to Hurricane Harvey. Cruz now embarks on a three-day, 12-city campaign throughout Texas.
The American service member killed this week by a roadside bomb in northern Syria was a 36-year-old Army soldier from Texas, the Defense Department said Saturday. Master Sgt.
In this Friday, Oct. 20, 2017, file photo, activists with Planned Parenthood demonstrate in support of a pregnant 17-year-old being held in a Texas facility for unaccompanied immigrant children to obtain an abortion, outside of the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington. A federal court in Washington told the Trump administration Friday, March 30, 2018, that the government can't interfere with the ability of pregnant immigrant teens being held in federal custody to obtain abortions.
An attack on 18-year-old Cuban-American and Parkland activist Emma Gonzlez for not speaking Spanish by an Iowa Republican congressman's campaign staff highlights the pressures U.S.-born Latinos face on language. "This is how you look when you claim Cuban heritage yet don't speak Spanish and ignore the fact that your ancestors fled the island when the dictatorship turned Cuba into a prison camp, after removing all weapons from its citizens; hence their right to self defense," read a meme with Gonzalez's photo that was posted on Rep. Steve King's campaign Facebook page.
Senator Ted Cruz, a Republican from Texas, speaks during a discussion at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, U.S., on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018. The list of speakers at CPAC that opens today includes two European nativists who will address the gathering between panels and events on the dangers of immigration, Sharia law and lawless government agencies.