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Texas Border Business EDINBURG, TX – Rio Grande Valley Sector (RGV) Border Patrol agents identified a registered sex offender attempting to sponsor a 16-year-old migrant teenager. McAllen Station Border...

Megyn Kelly is joined by Antonio Garcia-Martinez, author and entrepreneur whose family came from Cuba, and Samuel Chu, Managing Director of the Hong Kong Democracy Council, to talk about what's happening now in Cuba and Hong Kong

Bicentennial Boulevard expansion project from Auburn Avenue to Freddy Gonzalez, McAllen Community Tool Shed and McAllen Parks and Recreations Senior Walk.

AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a historic $26 billion agreement that will bring desperately needed relief to Texans who are struggling with opioid addiction. The agreement includes Cardinal, McKesson, and AmerisourceBergen – the nation’s three major pharmaceutical distributors – and Johnson & Johnson, which manufactured and marketed opioids. The agreement also requires significant industry changes that will help prevent this type of crisis from ever happening again.   

CNBC regularly ranks the top states for business  ̶  and the winner was…not Texas! The Lone Star State came in fourth after Virginia, North Carolina, and Utah, all of which compete aggressively and effectively for desirable corporate locations. While fourth is not terrible, it is worse than we normally fare in such listings. More importantly, the details were eerily disturbing. CNBC evaluates 85 areas within 10 broad categories. 

Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol Sector (RGV) agents interdicted two drug smuggling attempts resulting in the seizure of more than 440 pounds of marijuana.

AUSTIN - Governor Greg Abbott today filed an amicus brief in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, an important Second Amendment case in the U.S. Supreme Court. At issue is whether New York’s denial of licenses to carry handguns for self-defense violates the Second Amendment. 

Congressman Henry Cuellar (TX-28) secured $891,190,000 for the hiring of 100 new immigration judges with support staff through the Executive Office for Immigration Review. The funding will help reduce the backlog of immigration cases at the southern border and is a $157,190,000 increase from last year. 

In addition to expanding its Pre-K3 program to remove state eligibility requirements, the Mission Consolidated Independent School District (CISD) is also planning to implement a groundbreaking new approach to early childhood education in the Rio Grande Valley.

The Food Bank of the Rio Grande Valley has received a generous donation of $25,000 from H-E-B to help support the food bank as they continue feed families affected by Covid-19. The growing demand for services continues as many families are still feeling the effects of the health and financial crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.