As American natural gas production soars, South Korea rushes to build tankers to move that energy to Asia’s top economies.
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Blowout: Inside America's energy gamble
Death in the oilfields: Fossil fuel boom brings mounting risk of death, injuries
From 2008 through 2017, 1,566 workers perished trying to extract oil and gas in America. About as many U.S. troops died fighting in Afghanistan during that period.
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Immigration
Trump administration: Deal reached to force asylum seekers to wait in Mexico as cases are processed
The United States has been in negotiations with Mexico for weeks to reach such an accord, believing that illegal crossings will decline if Central Americans believe the asylum system will no longer offer them a way to avoid deportation.
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Blowout: Inside America's energy gamble
The U.S. is helping the natural gas industry make a profit — at the expense of the environment
The U.S. government has become a pitchman for the natural gas industry. That could raise profits — and temperatures.
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Immigration
Families are still being separated at the border, months after “zero tolerance” was reversed
Immigration lawyers say border agents are again removing children from their parents. The explanation? They’re protecting kids from criminal dads and moms. Immigration advocates say it’s zero tolerance by another name.
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Blowout: Inside America's energy gamble
Drilling overwhelms agency protecting America’s lands
The Bureau of Land Management is making it easier to produce oil and gas on federal acreage. In southeastern New Mexico, it can’t even keep up with what’s already happening.
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Politics
How a super PAC helping Beto O’Rourke by bashing Ted Cruz can hide who’s funding it
A super PAC called Texas Forever has spent more than $1.29 million on anti-Cruz TV ads just in the past two weeks, but it won’t have to disclose its donors until after the election.
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Texas Elections 2018
Texas’ largest counties have nearly doubled voter turnout so far compared to 2014
Soon, more Texans will have voted early in 2018 than in all of 2014’s early voting period, according to data from the secretary of state’s office.
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Immigration
Trump considering plan to ban entry of migrants at southern border, deny asylum
President Donald Trump is weighing a plan to shut the U.S. border to Central Americans and deny them the opportunity to seek asylum, asserting similar emergency powers used during the early 2017 “travel ban,” according to administration officials and people familiar with the proposal.
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Families Divided
Record number of families crossing U.S. border as Trump threatens new crackdown
More than 16,000 family members were apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border in September, the highest number ever and an 80 percent increase from July, according to federal statistics obtained by The Washington Post
