Two former officials of the Federal Emergency Management Agency were accused of bribery and fraud in efforts to restore electricity to Puerto Rico.
Author: Rick Jervis, USA TODAY
My tio’s unlikely journey from communist Cuba to key figure in Apollo 11 moon landing
His fascination for space travel began in Cuba and followed him into exile in New York and Florida. Heroes in this country come from all over.
‘We’re not protecting our children’: Santa Fe shooting survivors demand answers, independent review
Families are asking for a third-party review of the Sante Fe, Texas, high school shooting that unfolded in May 2018 to prevent future attacks.
At US-Mexico border, migrants from Africa, Haiti wait to seek asylum
Hundreds of Africans have amassed at the U.S.-Mexican border at Nuevo Laredo without Spanish-language skills or much money to survive.
One Morehouse College student’s $100,000 in debt, vanished. ‘God has smiled on me,’ he says after billionaire Robert F. Smith’s speech
Elijah Dormeus was graduating from Morehouse College in Atlanta when he learned billionaire Robert Smith would pay off his $100,000 in student loans.
Why closing the U.S.-Mexico border would be ‘catastrophic’ for this Texas city
Trump’s threatto seal the border has sent jolts of alarm across the U.S.-Mexico border, but few places feel it more acutely than Laredo, Texas.
‘Lupita scared the s*** out of me!’: Jordan Peele talks new film ‘Us’ at SXSW in Austin
“Us” is the second feature after Peele’s successful “Get Out” and tells the story of evil doppelgängers out to destroy a family on vacation.
The new Iowa? 2020 presidential candidates descend on Austin for SXSW conference
The conference’s social media reach, especially among millenials, is a big draw to candidates eyeing the 2020 presidential race.
As Trump demands a wall, violence returns to Texas border in Ciudad Juárez
Cuidad Juárez police recorded 1,259 homicides in 2018, including a murderous spasm of 182 deaths in August. Last year, Mexico counted 33,341 murders.
El Paso braces for Trump rally, as another border community deflects images of unsafe city
Trump will speak in El Paso, a border community that has found itself at the center of a divisive national debate over immigration and border security.