Trump administration starts building border wall project in Arizona over tribe’s objections

Members of the Tohono O’odham Nation have accused the administration of trespassing and say the construction will damage land sacred to the tribe.

The Tohono O’odham Nation says armed federal agents accompanied contractors who trespassed on tribal land this week as they began construction of an Arizona section of a border wall.

The Tohono O'odham Nation claims masked CBP agents blocked tribal police as border wall contractors drilled on their sacred Native American land.

Officials of the Tohono O’odham tribe issued an update in the ongoing battle to stop the Trump administration from starting a 62-mile border infrastructure project within the narrow Roosevelt Easement between the southern boundary of the tribe’s reservation and the U.S. Mexico border. The tribe alleges armed, masked Cu

Flash floods hit Himalayan mountain towns and villages, sweeping away vehicles, bridges and even buildings as people fled in terror.

August 26, 2026 11:59 AM ET Flood waters tore down a Himalayan river in Nepal on Wednesday morning, killing at least 72 people.Rescuers recovered bodies from several locations, Nepal police spokesperson Abi Narayan Kafle told the Associated Press (AP). At least 28 police officials also remain unaccounted for, Kafle sai

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A century ago, Mexican American families came together to build an adobe church near the border in West Texas. Can its bell toll again as the wall expansion nears?