A Miami jury decided that Elon Musk’s car company Tesla was partly responsible for a deadly crash in Florida involving its Autopilot driver assist technology and must pay the victims more than $240 million in damages.| AP News
The U.S. government’s road safety agency is investigating Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” system after getting reports of crashes in low-visibility conditions, including one that killed a pedestrian.| AP News
Six people in a rural Texas county have been indicted in a widening elections investigation led by Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton.| AP News
A Latino voting rights group is calling for a federal investigation after Texas authorities searched the homes of its volunteers last week and seized phones and computers.| AP News
President Donald Trump has signed executive orders to beef up security at the southern border that began taking effect hours after he was inaugurated.| AP News
A federal judge in New York says transcripts of the secret grand jury testimony that led to the sex trafficking indictment of Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell should not be released.| AP News
The politics of immigration look different from communities on the Southwest border that are voting in hotly contested congressional races.| AP News
Election victories for Donald Trump and other candidates whose campaigns demeaned transgender people reinforced a widespread backlash against trans rights.| AP News
The Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to use a 1798 wartime law, the Alien Enemies Act, to deport Venezuelan migrants it accuses of being gang members, ending the temporary halt on deportations ordered by a federal district judge.| AP News
President Donald Trump is thanking an appeals court for freezing an order that he return control of National Guard troops to California.| AP News
HOUSTON (AP) — Two days before the storm began, Houston’s chief elected official warned her constituents to prepare as they would for a major hurricane.| AP News
A rising number of heat-related deaths in Texas among residents who lost power during Hurricane Beryl has pushed the number of storm fatalities to at least 36.| AP News
The U.N.’s International Organization for Migration is responding to President Joe Biden's effort to restrict asylum at the U.S.| AP News
Donald Trump has ramped up anti-immigrant rhetoric and his messaging often relies on falsehoods about migration.| AP News
With an unscripted clash between President Joe Biden and a Georgia congresswoman at Thursday night’s State of the Union speech, the killing of a Georgia nursing student was further cemented as a political rallying point in the 2024 race for president.| AP News
