WASHINGTON — A closely divided Supreme Court on Monday allowed Border Patrol agents to cut through or move razor wire Texas installed on the U.S.-Mexico border as part of the state’s effort to prevent illegal border crossings. The court on a 5-4 vote granted an emergency request filed by the Biden administration, which had argued […]
Federal border patrol agents may remove razor wire installed by Texas along the U.S.-Mexico border, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Monday — a major victory for the Biden administration in an ongoing immigration policy dispute with the state’s Republican governor, Greg Abbott. The terse, one-page order followed a DOJ filing on Jan. 12 that alleged […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided Supreme Court on Monday allowed Border Patrol agents to cut razor wire that Texas installed on the U.S.-Mexico border, while a lawsuit over the wire continues. The justices, by a 5-4 vote, granted an emergency appeal from the Biden administration, which has been in an escalating standoff at the border […]
A satellite got all tangled up last year after its launch into space. Engineers had to quickly pivot after the California Institute of Technology’s Space Solar Power Demonstrator (SSPD-1) got stuck during what was supposed to be a slow unfurling of a modular spacecraft experiment: The Deployable On-Orbit Ultralight Composite Experiment, or DOLCE. A new […]
If Texas’ current governor had a hand in designing the Statue of Liberty she would stand at the edge of the Rio Grande offering – not a torch and a welcoming poem – but a coil of freshly minted concertina wire and a sign that says, “Keep off my country or risk death.” Comments by […]
By Mohammad Salem RAFAH, Gaza (Reuters) – Palestinian groom Mohammed al-Ghandour wanted to give his bride a beautiful wedding but after war began in Gaza they had to flee their homes and the couple finally got married this week in the tent city where they now live. Ghandour led his wife Shahad by the hand […]
As U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson and other congressional Republicans gathered on the banks of the Rio Grande to highlight the migrant crisis at the Texas-Mexico border and criticize the Biden administration’s handling of it, Gov. Greg Abbott suggested that a resurfaced video appeared to show the Biden administration violating a federal court order barring […]
TEXAS – The Biden administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday to step in and allow Border Patrol agents to remove razor wire the state of Texas has placed along a 29-mile stretch of the Rio Grande River. The emergency application from the Justice Department says the wire has “serious on-the-ground consequences…” for Border Patrol […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow Border Patrol agents to cut razor wire that Texas installed on the U.S.-Mexico border, while a lawsuit over the wire continues. The Justice Department filed an emergency appeal Tuesday, asking the justices to put on hold last month’s appellate ruling in favor […]
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday temporarily blocked the administration of President Joe Biden from destroying razor wire fencing that Texas placed along its border with Mexico to deter illegal border crossings. The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said a judge was wrong to rule that the U.S. […]
A Midlands man and woman were arrested for stealing thousands of dollars’ worth of copper wire from Duke Energy, the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday. Sumter residents Wade Carl Blackburn, 61, and Theresa Ann Browder, 60, were each charged with grand larceny ($10,000 or more), the sheriff’s office said in a news release. Blackburn […]