Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

BIZARRE: Department of public safety - You Need To See This

Ken Paxton’s office launches tip line to encourage enforcement of Texas’ “bathroom bill”

The attorney general's complaint form is the latest effort to enforce new state restrictions on which restrooms transgender people can use in public buildings.

The Texas Tribune

High-Speed Smuggling Chase Ends in Drowning at U.S.-Mexico Border

A human smuggling attempt ended in tragedy when a migrant drowned in the Rio Grande while fleeing Texas Department of Public Safety officers

Latin Times

Bill to create a Texas Homeland Security Division passes state Senate

Senate Bill 36, a priority bill for Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, would create an office within the Department of Public Safety focused on immigration enforcement, organized crime and threats to state infrastructure.

The Texas Tribune

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Eagle Pass park reopens more than a year after the state seized it for border security

The Texas Department of Public Safety and National Guard presence has largely disappeared from Shelby Park, which sits next to the Rio Grande.

The Texas Tribune

Texas is already policing the Mexican border − and will play an outsize role in any Trump plan to crack down on immigration

Over the past half-decade, the state of Texas has been pushing an evolution in the administration and enforcement of immigration law. Stepping into a traditional federal role, state lawmakers in 2023 passed Senate Bill 4, allowing Texas police to arrest those illegally crossing the border from Mexico.

The Conversation

News organizations ask Texas court to order release of Texas state police records of Uvalde shooting

A group of news organizations are asking a Texas appeals court to order the release of state Department of Public Safety records of the law enforcement response to the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde

The Independent UK

Texas officials totally debunk Fox News host’s voter fraud conspiracy theory: ‘Kind of racist’

‘Just because these people aren’t white, that doesn’t mean they’re illegal,’ says Texas Department of Public Safety

The Independent UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Large desert tortoise rescued from Arizona highway after escaping from ostrich ranch 3 miles away

State Department of Public Safety troopers recently helped rescue an escaped sulcata tortoise that was attempting to cross Interstate 10 near Picacho

The Independent UK

Two Princeton Graduate Students Arrested For Trespassing During Protest

Princeton University graduate students arrested for trespassing during a campus protest.

Top News

More than 200 migrants arrested after rushing an El Paso border gate

Gov. Greg Abbott said Department of Public Safety troopers had been instructed to “arrest every illegal immigrant involved” in the March 21 breach in which National Guard members were allegedly assaulted.

The Texas Tribune

Gov. Greg Abbott Defends Migrant Tactics in Eagle Pass Amid Escalating Legal Battle with Biden Administration

Department of Public Safety tells visiting governors that efforts to deter migrants are effective and razor wire and buoy barriers "save lives"

Latin Times

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

Trump complains that there wasn’t enough food for him at Texas Thanksgiving lunch

Former President Donald Trump made the joke at a luncheon for border police officers

The Independent UK

Woman behind viral ‘not real’ plane tirade says her life has been ‘blown up’

Passenger behind viral incident was identified as marketing executive Tiffany Gomas

The Independent UK

Woman behind viral ‘not real’ plane tirade says her life has been ‘blown up’

Passenger behind viral incident was identified as marketing executive Tiffany Gomas

The Independent UK

Woman says her life was ‘blown up’ by viral plane rant where she called passenger ‘not real’

Passenger behind viral incident was identified as marketing executive Tiffany Gomas

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

Woman says her life was ‘blown up’ by viral plane rant where she called passenger ‘not real’

Passenger behind viral incident was identified as marketing executive Tiffany Gomas

The Independent UK

Woman behind ‘not real’ plane tirade identified as marketing executive with $2m home

July incident was allegedly sparked over argument about missing AirPods

The Independent UK

Woman behind ‘not real’ plane tirade identified as marketing executive with $2m home

July incident was allegedly sparked over argument about missing AirPods

Los Angeles Times

Texas trooper alleges ‘inhumane’ practices against migrants at the border

Troopers at the Texas border were ordered to push children back into the Rio Grande and failed to provide water to asylum seekers in extreme heat conditions, according to an an email sent by a Department of Public Safety trooper, and first reported by the Houston Chronicle.

The Independent UK

White House condemns ‘abhorrent’ reports of Texas troopers being told to push migrant children into Rio Grande

A Texas trooper sends an email to his superior voicing concern about the safety of migrants crossing the US-Mexico border

The Texas Tribune

Family of dead National Guardsman urges Legislature to make death benefits bill named for him retroactive

While the state guarantees law enforcement officers, like Department of Public Safety troopers, a $500,000 death benefit for their families if they die on duty, National Guard troops who stand shoulder to shoulder with those DPS officers on Operation Lone Star don’t have the same benefit.

WEKU

Texas officials have told residents Mexico is too dangerous to visit for spring break

The advisory follows the kidnapping of four Americans earlier this month in the city of Matamoros. The state's Department of Public Safety said "cartel activity" made trips to Mexico a "serious risk."

1 2 3 4

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

the Department of Homeland Security

Customs and Border Protection

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.