The U.S. government is building an immense 5,000-person detention camp in west Texas, government contract announcements said, sharply increasing the Trump administration’s ability to hold detained immigrants amid its ever-growing mass deportation efforts.

Just weeks after the governor vetoed a bill banning products containing THC, state senators revived it in the special session, filing nearly identical legislation and passing it unanimously out of committee with a 10-0 vote on Tuesday.

The severity of the flash flooding that killed more than 130 people in Texas's Hill Country was difficult to predict, officials said Wednesday.

The acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency is pushing back on criticisms of the federal response to the central Texas floods that killed at least 136 people.

A liquefied petroleum gas tanker moored at the Enterprise Products Partners terminal along the Neches river in Texas, ship tracking data showed on Wednesday, the first vessel to arrive for loading at the facility.

The head of FEMA's Urban Search and Rescue branch, Ken Pagurek, has resigned due to frustration over the agency's response to the flooding in Central Texas, sources say.

The agreement requires the Foundation to develop a severe weather mooring plan for the ship's new berth, enabling it to withstand 19 feet of floodwaters and winds of up to 160 miles per hour. This plan must still be approved by the Port, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and U.S. Coast Guard.

Texas Instruments' quarterly profit forecast failed to impress investors as it pointed to weaker-than-expected demand for its analog chips from some customers and underscored tariff-related uncertainty.