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President Donald Trump is swiftly moving forward with a keystone campaign promise from his first term: to build the border wall. Within six months of returning to the White House, Trump has been able ...

The federal government’s $4.5 billion "Smart Wall" project will add hundreds of miles of high-tech border security, including detection systems through Big Bend National Park. Homeland Security ...

Crews install steel border barrier panels and supporting foundations during construction along the U.S.–Mexico border, work that typically involves heavy lifting, concrete placement and access-road ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A stretch of the border wall near Columbus, New Mexico along State Road 9. (Patrick Lohmann/Source NM) The U.S. government this ...

In August 2025, the Trump administration announced it would paint the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border black in the hopes the wall would become hotter and thus deter people from climbing it. A mural ...

Stretching for 220 miles along the Gulf of Mexico, a southern belt overlays the canvas of Florida, shaped just like a dinosaur's tail. Hugging this belt is a terrain of rugged Chisos mountains, ...

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NOGALES, Ariz. — Inside an armored vehicle, an Army scout uses a joystick to direct a long-range optical scope toward a man perched atop the U.S.-Mexico border wall cutting across the hills of this ...

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. The Department ...