The governors of Texas and Arizona are calling for other US states to send police to the border to help them deal with the deteriorating crisis there.

US police in Texas say a mass shooting in a busy entertainment district in downtown Austin leaves more than a dozen people wounded.

The campaign handouts of Prescott Bush, given to supporters this week, have featured a quote from Trump, who ruthlessly mocked his father Jeb Bush in 2015, describing him as a “crook”.

Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has issued a disaster declaration along or near the Lone Star State’s border with Mexico in response to an “ongoing surge” of illegal immigrants.

US President Joe Biden has criticized a Texas bill adding new voting restrictions, calling it an “assault on democracy” and “wrong and un-American.”

A sheriff in the US State of Texas has fired eleven jail employees for beating a handcuffed naked Black man to death.

There is a vast network of detention sites across the US, holding more than 20,000 migrant children, who have complained of cold temperatures, sickness, neglect, lice and filth, among other issues.

In a bid to whitewash the dark history of slavery and anti-Mexican discrimination, the US state of Texas has moved to reframe history lessons in schools.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Prediction Center issued a rare high risk for severe thunderstorms that could produce intense, long-track tornadoes, huge hail and damaging straight-line winds.

Texas power retailer Griddy Energy LLC is planning to file for bankruptcy, sources familiar with the matter told the Wall Street Journal.