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Texas is widening investigations into aid organizations along the U.S.-Mexico border over claims that nonprofits are helping migrants illegally enter the country.

Competitive eater Joey “Jaws” Chestnut took his hot dog-downing talents to an army base in Texas for America’s Independence Day this year. He ate 57 hot dogs compared to four soldiers at Fort Bliss who ate 49 combined. The real winner? Operation Homefront, a nonprofit that helps military families in need — because they ate a combined 106 hot dogs $106,000 was donated.

Competitive eater Joey “Jaws” Chestnut will take his hot dog-downing talents to Fort Bliss in El Paso this Independence Day after a falling out with organizers of the event that made him famous, the annual 4th of July eating contest in Brooklyn’s Coney Island.

Major League Eating announced Tuesday that Joey Chestnut will not compete in the 2024 Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest.

A Texas man died after he became stuck in a municipal water tank in western Wisconsin as he was cleaning sediment from the tank, authorities said.

An AMBER Alert issued has been issued for a missing 2-year-old out of El Paso, Texas.

A campaign to save Benito the giraffe from extreme temperatures and a small enclosure across the border from El Paso has finally paid off.

The federal government on Friday reopened railroad crossings in two Texas border towns, five days after the shuttering of rail operations there disrupted trade and caused outrage.

A man with an outstanding arrest warrant for murder in North Texas was arrested after he tried to enter the U.S. through the Paso del Norte Port of Entry using fake citizenship in late September.