El Paso

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with El Paso Mayor Renard Johnson about the FAA's temporary closure of airspace over the city, and how it was communicated to city leaders.

The Federal Aviation Administration abruptly closed the airspace around El Paso, only to reopen it hours later. The bizarre episode pointed to a lack of coordination between the FAA and the Pentagon.

The Federal Aviation Administration has shut down the airspace around El Paso, Texas for ten days citing unspecified security reasons. The abrupt move stops all flights in one of the U.S. largest cities.

The FAA lifted a 10-day flight restriction in the El Paso area after a few hours saying there is no danger to commercial travel in the region. The Transportation Secretary said the Defense Department "acted swiftly to address a cartel drone incursion." Local authorities demand answers after the federal government failed to provide clear and timely information about grounding all flights.

Eighteen cases of COVID-19 were also identified. U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar on Friday visited the 5,000-bed tent facility on the Fort Bliss Army base and said she saw many "chronic issues."

The Trump administration's push for mass deportations and removing protections for "sensitive locations" resonates decades after Bowie High School students sued the Border Patrol over racial profiling and won.

A family is demanding accountability after a Border Patrol agent shot their dog inside an El Paso home. The incident happened in early September when agents went to the Upper Valley home looking for undocumented immigrants. They did not find any illegal activity. The agent use of force is under review and CBP in a statement said it takes such incidents seriously.

A professor in El Paso who lives in the Mexican city of Juárez aimed to capture and document the everyday sounds that are a part of border experience.

Hundreds of people in El Paso joined demonstrators across the country on 'No Kings Day' to protest Trump policies

Two measles cases have been reported at Fort Bliss and in the city of El Paso; Juárez reports four cases.