Texas election officials have rejected hundreds of mail-in ballot applications, abiding by a new Republican-backed law just weeks before a March 1 primary kicks off this year's US election cycle.

Three teenagers were killed and a fourth was critically wounded when another teen shot them at a gas station in the Dallas area over the holiday weekend, police said Monday.

The governor of Texas is using millions in taxpayer funds for projects pertaining to his desire to finish former president Donald Trump’s aborted wall along the US-Mexico border.

Texas has begun building its own "wall" of huge steel bars on the border with Mexico, its Republican governor Greg Abbott said Saturday.

Haiti is the world’s only country where slaves lead a successful revolt.

The UN has condemned the US' mass deportations of Haitian migrants who have been camped in squalid conditions under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas.

Haiti protests the US’s mass expulsion of Haitians from Texas and forcibly sending them to the crisis-hit island country.

The Biden administration is implementing a strategy to ramp up deportation flights to forcibly expel migrants in South Texas.

Nearly a quarter million customers in Texas and Louisiana have been left without power after the storm called Nicholas made landfall, threatening parts of the Gulf Coast with up to 20 inches of rain.

The Texas legislature on Tuesday passed the final version of a bill that would impose substantial new restrictions on voting access in the state.