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A reporter from a Houston television station saved a man from possibly drowning after the elderly man’s car became flooded out in the heavy rains Monday morning.

A Mexican Marine has made a sport out of hunting top cartel bosses and has found an interesting past-time. The Marine began mocking top cartel bosses by dressing up recently arrested gunmen in lingerie while forcing them to kiss each other for the comedic entertainment of his team.

Six members of the highly feared Los Zetas drug cartel were burned alive in their vehicle after a grenade exploded inside the SUV. The incident occurred following a rolling gun battle with authorities in this border city.

An environmental standoff at the Missouri River near Cannon Ball, North Dakota is brewing between a Dallas-based pipeline company and the Standing Rock Sioux with increasing support from the Obama Administration. Occupying protests, bureaucratic demand letters and company promises to complete construction on time have created yet another flashpoint in America’s pipeline politics.

Two Houston-based drilling companies filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection within a 24-hour period ending Friday as the oil slump continues to take its toll on the sector at large. The firms plan to shed a combined $3.2 billion in debts to their creditors.

A large deployment of security forces sent out to the mountain region near this border city to hunt cartel smugglers resulted in the seizure of more than 1700 pound of Marijuana.

Federal authorities in southern Arizona have seized more than $600,000 worth of cocaine during a smuggling attempt. In Texas, over $150,000 in cash was seized while being smuggled into Mexico.

Another government official from the Texas border region has been jailed on federal corruption charges. His name is added to a long list of government employees or officials that have been implicated bribery and other abuses. The various counties that make up the Texas border have a long history of being largely controlled by Democrats.

The recovery of the remains of a second Texas teen missing since 1997 was confirmed by medical examiners in the Houston area this week. Both missing girls are tied to convicted kidnapper and suspected serial-killer William Reece.

Harris County Sheriff Ron Hickman met with anti-deportation activists on Thursday and stood strongly in support of his jail programs that cooperate with immigration officials to deport criminal illegal aliens.

A federal district judge in San Antonio has issued an order stopping a Texas law criminalizing the harboring of illegal aliens, at least for now. The judge issued the preliminary injunction in MALDEF’s (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) lawsuit challenging Texas House Bill 11, a law which open border advocates are fighting because they say it improperly targets illegal alien shelters and those who rent to illegal aliens.

Authorities have just identified and moved to seize some assets tied to a new cartel in Mexico that had been quietly working under the radar for year supplying large quantities of heroin into Philadelphia. Soon after the announcement, a Mexican governor rushed to their defense claiming they were not a security threat.

Pope Francis visited the Greek island of Lesbos and took twelve Muslim refugees back to Rome with him on his papal airplane. The Vatican issued a statement that the refugees included six children. The twelve included three families who have had their homes bombed during the Syrian war.

During a routine patrol on Thursday morning, an El Centro Border Patrol agent discovered a tunnel spanning the U.S.-Mexico southern border.

Nearly 900 pounds of cocaine was found Thursday on a Cuban ship in Panama that was headed for Belgium. A U.S. Representative from Florida says the Castro regime has been caught drug trafficking red-handed.

The man who allegedly killed a pastor and his wife while he was reported to be street racing is in the U.S. illegally, officials say. The illegal alien from Mexico surrendered to the Harris County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) on Friday morning.

A previously deported illegal alien is now facing federal charges after he allegedly killed a Texas fire captain and two of his children.

The U.S. Air Force has selected the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in Fort Worth, Texas and three others as candidates for the first Reserve-led F-35A Lighting II fighter sites in the United States. After an official comparative review of installations, the Air Force is expected to render a decision this coming fall.

HOUSTON, Texas — Video has been released showing the ambush of the Houston-area constable who was shot on Wednesday as he was kneeling by a deputy trainee’s patrol car. The ambush occurred after a routine traffic stop in Houston’s Third Ward, a neighborhood known for violent crime. A person of interest has been questioned.

CPS Workers across Texas are accused of falsifying records of visits to endangered children. At least two children died after workers failed to visit home.

A Houston man has been ticketed after allegedly causing a car crash while having sex on the roadway.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed Thursday the first U.S. case of male-to-male sexually transmitted Zika. A Dallas man contracted the virus while traveling in Venezuela. Later, in Texas, the man infected his male partner through anal sex.

CIUDAD VICTORIA, Tamaulipas — One of the latest chapter in the ongoing war between rival factions of Los Zetas brought terror to this city as gunmen and police forces clashed outside of a government building.

While European media feature several major stories a day on the immigration crisis there, America’s corporate media elites seem desperate to avoid the chaos caused by the breakdown of the rule of law on our own southern border.

HOUSTON, Texas — Lawyers representing an indicted activist connected with undercover expose videos of Planned Parenthood urged in motions filed on Thursday that at a “press conference, Mr. Josh Schaffer, counsel for Planned Parenthood, boasted that he ‘explicitly pushed prosecutors’ to charge Mr. Daleiden and Ms. Merritt.”

Lawyers for David Daleiden, the undercover journalist who is connected with the Center for Medical Progress undercover videos of Planned Parenthood executives, accused Harris County prosecutors of being in collusion with Planned Parenthood. Breitbart Texas spoke with lawyer Jared Woodfill who said, “We have clear evidence that the D.A. is colluding with Planned Parenthood.”

State legislators from across America are fighting back against the LGBT agenda and their activist’s retaliation against states over religious liberty legislation. Forty Texas state legislators joined with over one-hundred legislators nationally in writing to business leaders who are threatening action against states who have passed such bills.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is standing with Dallas business leaders against a pornography convention that is slated to be hosted in the city’s convention center. Paxton filed a brief today in federal court in support of stopping the sexually-oriented show.

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila — The murder of a local politician’s son in this border state has brought up new questions since the case has striking similarities to the recent murder of two members of an elite police unit.

An Austin police SWAT officer was shot early Thursday morning while executing a search warrant. He was the second Texas police officer shot in the past twelve hours. The officer is in stable condition recovering from his wound.

A Texas sex offender has been arrested for allegedly beating two elderly women and a man with a bat. He reportedly beat them, stopped to drink a beer, and then beat them again.

A committee formed as a result of the death of Sandra Bland in a small county jail in Texas has just been released. The report makes recommendations on inmate screening, jail procedures, inmate mental health problems, and other law enforcement related issues.

Border Patrol agents captured a previously deported illegal alien sex offender minutes after the Mexican national re-entered the United States in Southern California.

The Texas A&M University System unveiled its proposed “campus carry” recommendations for implementation on Wed., Apr. 13. State law requires public universities have new rules in place to comply with the law passed as Senate Bill 11 (S.B. 11) during the Texas 84th Legislature in 2015. S.B. 11 goes into effect on August 1 for all state institutions of higher learning, except at community colleges where this change occurs on August 1, 2017.

As Mexico continues to plunge in a downward spiral of violence, a video leaked to some Mexican news outlets as well as Breitbart Texas, shows military and police personnel interrogating a suspected cartel member. The following video was leaked without information about location or events leading to the interrogation.

A Harris County deputy constable was shot six times in what is being reported as an “absolute ambush.” The attack occurred late Wednesday night and the deputy went under immediate surgery to save his life. It is unknown at this time whether the deputy constable will survive. Deputy Constable Alden Clopton is reportedly an 11-year veteran of the Constable’s office.