A rare frigid storm charged through Texas and the northern Gulf Coast on Tuesday, blanketing New Orleans and Houston with snow that closed highways, grounded nearly all flights and canceled school for more than a million students more used to hurricane dismissals than snow days.

The program that kept nearly 1 million immigrants from Venezuela, El Salvador, Ukraine and Sudan in the U.S. legally was renewed for 18 months.

In 2015, El Salvador had 6,656 homicides, making it one of the world’s deadliest countries. For José Palma, a 48 year-old Salvadoran who has lived in the U.S. since 1998, the extension means he can still work legally in Houston. He is the only in his ...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Former El Salvador President Mauricio Funes, who spent the final years of his life in Nicaragua to avoid various criminal sentences, died late Tuesday. He was 65. Nicaragua’s Health Ministry said in a statement that Funes had died of a serious chronic illness.

Read full article: Clouds move in today, rain showers return to Houston Wednesday ... Homeland Security cited "environmental conditions in El Salvador that prevent individuals from returning ...

Ana, 69, left El Salvador for the U.S. in 1996. She has been a beneficiary of TPS since 2001. She said she reapplies to keep her status current every 18 months. She works as a janitor in Houston and says she files her taxes every year. Ana asked NPR not to ...

A manhunt is underway in Texas after a Houston man shot and killed a deputy who was serving a warrant on him in the parking lot of a Dollar Tree, police said.

As heavy snow, sleet and freezing rain hit parts of the Deep South, a blast of Arctic air plunged much of the Midwest and the eastern U.S. into a deep freeze.

El Salvador ended 2024 with a record low 114 homicides ... the extension means he can still work legally in Houston. He is the only in his family with temporary status; his four children were ...

President Joe Biden extended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for immigrants from Venezuela, El Salvador, and Ukraine on Friday, shielding nearly a million people from deportation for up to 18 months. The move comes just 10 days before Biden leaves office.