Georgetown University scholar Badar Khan Suri was released from a federal detention center in Texas on Wednesday, marking at least the third time a detained student or academic targeted by the Trump administration because of their protest activity or affiliation was released from immigration detention.

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the immediate release of a Georgetown University researcher who was detained by immigration authorities in March as part of the Trump administration's crackdown on activists across college campuses.

The main power system for the state of Texas is bracing for a surge in electricity demand as a heat wave is forecast to drive up temperatures across the middle of the state to above 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.

A dangerous round of early season extreme heat is on tap for parts of Texas this week in a prelude to what’s expected to be an abnormally hot summer across much of the United States. Long-standing records could fall across central and southwest Texas,