Cedar’s Recent Stories
Nation Nov 23
School closings leave rural students isolatedRural school districts around the country have been engineering ways to connect with students who are otherwise disengaged during the pandemic.
Health Mar 16
Asylum seekers attend border court amid outbreakU.S. immigration courts sharply scaled back operations Monday but have stopped well short of a total shutdown demanded by employees, including judges and government attorneys.
Nation Feb 06
El Paso shooting suspect charged with federal hate crimesAn indictment unsealed Thursday charges Patrick Crusius with 90 counts under federal hate crime and firearms laws.
Nation Nov 14
El Paso Walmart hires off-duty officers before reopeningThe store is reopening months after a gunman opened fire there, killing 22 people.
Politics Sep 12
Trump administration puts tough new asylum rule into effectA new level of despair spread among tens of thousands of migrants waiting on the Mexican border to seek refuge in the U.S. as the Trump administration began enforcing radical new restrictions Thursday on who qualifies for asylum.
Nation Aug 22
Walmart to reopen El Paso store after mass shootingThe renovated store will include an on-site memorial honoring the victims of the shooting.
Nation Aug 09
El Paso gunman confessed: ‘I’m the shooter,’ was targeting MexicansEl Paso Detective Adrian Garcia said Crusius waived his Miranda Rights and agreed to speak with detectives, telling them that he had driven to El Paso from the Dallas suburb of Allen — which is where he lived and is…
Nation Aug 04
Attack on Texas shoppers to be handled as domestic terrorismThe shooting that killed 20 people at a crowded El Paso shopping area will be handled as a domestic terrorism case, federal authorities said Sunday as they weighed hate-crime charges against the gunman that could carry the death penalty.
Nation Aug 03
Texas governor: 20 dead in El Paso shopping-complex shootingTwenty people were killed and more than two dozen injured in a shooting Saturday in a busy shopping area in the Texas border town of El Paso, the state’s governor said.
Nation Jun 25
Migrant woman and children found dead near U.S.-Mexico border at start of summerA law enforcement official close to the investigation said the four were overcome by the heat after fording the river.