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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.

Patrick Crusius, the North Texas man who shot and killed 23 people at an El Paso Walmart in 2019 was sentenced to 90 consecutive life sentences on Friday.

A federal judge sentenced the North Texas man who drove to El Paso and killed 23 people at a Walmart in 2019 to 90 consecutive life sentences; the Dallas Police remember five fallen police officers killed seven years ago.

A white gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack on Hispanic shoppers at a Walmart in a Texas border city was sentenced to prison Friday but could still face the death penalty.

The federal sentencing hearing in underway for the gunman who killed 23 people at an El Paso Walmart in 2019.

The federal sentencing hearing is underway for the gunman who killed 23 people at an El Paso Walmart in 2019. 24-year-old Patrick Crusius pleaded guilty this year to 90 charges – half of them classified as federal hate crimes.

A Kentucky woman has been accused of fatally shooting her West Texas Uber driver after mistakenly believing she was being kidnapped and taken to Mexico, according to police.

A statewide Amber Alert for four El Paso-area children ages 4-16 who were believed to be in grave or immediate danger over the Memorial Day holiday weekend has been canceled.

In place of Title 42, the Biden administration is using a mix of policies in hopes of controlling the border. They include new pathways for legal immigration and harsher penalties for those who don’t use them.

Hours after the end of Title 42, there has been no mad dash at international checkpoints in El Paso or Brownsville. NBC 5’s Maria Guerrero reports that city leaders along the Texas-Mexico broder say the real tests are in the days ahead.

There were scenes of desperation at the border as Title 42 ended and thousands of migrants looking for a better life in the U.S. met new immigration policies.

Telemundo 39’s Rudy Nieves reports from El Paso as immigration experts expect the situation at the border to become more difficult into the evening as hundreds of migrants seek to cross before Title 42 is rendered ineffective.