The letter to President-elect Donald Trump, sent to his Mar-a-Lago Club estate in Florida just two weeks after his resounding victory in the Nov. 5 election, came straight to the point. “Subject: Texas offering 1,

Texas wildlife officials are on the lookout for a flesh-devouring fly larvae known as the “Man-eater” after cases of the sickening vermin were recorded in Mexico.

Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX), a freshman Republican, will introduce the REMAIN in Mexico Act of 2025 on Thursday, directing the secretary of homeland security to implement President-elect Donald Trump ’s first-term Migrant Protection Protocols border policy, according to legislative text obtained by the Washington Examiner.

The span that connects Laredo, Texas, to Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, is expected to double the number of trains that come across the Rio Grande there.

“The Texas economy is deeply connected with Mexico in particular, and also with Canada,” he said. “A lot of the business that Texas does with Canada, of course, comes through the oil side of things, where we import crude oil from Canada and refine it on the Gulf Coast.

The Texas Parks and Wildlife said the screwworm was found in a cow at an inspection checkpoint in the southern Mexico State of Chiapas.

Claims that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said he intends to rename the Gulf of Mexico — the ocean basin that borders the U.S. states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida — the "Gulf of America" circulated on social media (archived) in early January 2025.

The New Mexico Supreme Court has struck down abortion restrictions by conservative cities and counties at the request of the state attorney general.

The CDC said screwworms are most common in the tropics and subtropics, but recent cases have appeared in Central America for the first time in years. Mexican authorities told the United States Department of Agriculture in November of a positive detection of New World Screwworm in a cow, according to the Texas Animal Health Commission.

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The Gulf of Mexico has been known by many names over the years. Renaming it could cause navigational issues for international sailors.