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The Trump administration’s “Smart Wall” plan was expanded in recent days to include the potential for border wall building within Big Bend National Park, according to a map of border projects from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Big Bend area residents have started organizing against the plan.
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AP/Nevada County Sheriff's OfficeAuthorities say the bodies of eight backcountry skiers have been found and one remains missing after an avalanche near Lake Tahoe in California. Six others were found alive. -
Bill Sikes/APThe Food and Drug Administration's about-face comes a little more than a week after the agency refused to consider the company's application to market the new kind of influenza vaccine.
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A preliminary federal notice says the Department of Homeland Security is moving to waive a wide range of environmental regulations to speed up “barriers and roads” building in the Big Bend region of West Texas. The waivers would include a portion of Big Bend Ranch State Park. -
Government sources and advocates for the children worry the goal is to concentrate them in Texas, where abortion is banned. -
Border wall projects could soon move forward in the remote Big Bend region of West Texas as part of the Trump administration’s sweeping “Smart Wall” plan for the entire U.S.-Mexico border, according to officials and local residents who say construction firms have started contacting people in the area about the project. -
The FAA lifted a 10-day flight restriction in the El Paso area after a few hours saying there is no danger to commercial travel in the region. The Transportation Secretary said the Defense Department "acted swiftly to address a cartel drone incursion." Local authorities demand answers after the federal government failed to provide clear and timely information about grounding all flights.
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