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Freddy Fender, the ”Bebop Kid” of the Texas-Mexico border who later turned his twangy tenor into the smash country ballad Before the Next Teardrop Falls, died on October 14. He…

Six Cubans trying to reach Mexico spent two months at sea, mostly on a nine-metre boat, before landing on Mustang Island on the Texas coast, United States Customs and Border…

The time is 10:13pm, the temperature is 34 degrees Celsius, and the humidity is somewhere between rain forest and gumbo. But step out of the sultry Texas night and into the…