Good evening, Texas. We’re wrapping up the day for you with the most important stories you need to know and your weather outlook.
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Friday morning will be chilly for most areas with lows in the 40s. Much warmer temperatures return along with south winds by the afternoon, with most areas seeing highs in the 80s. Late Sunday, another strong, but mostly dry, cold front sweeps across the Lone Star State. We’ll see lows in the 30s and low 40s by Monday morning.
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Today’s Big Stories
1. Should Trump endorse Cornyn? Some Texas Republicans say it would be a MAGA ‘mistake’
President Donald Trump likes to say that no one understands the Make America Great Again movement like him, its founder and undisputed champion. But as he weighs which candidate to endorse in the U.S. Senate runoff in Texas, some of the state’s Republicans fear he may be out of step with what his base wants.
In interviews with The Associated Press, several said it would be a mistake for Trump to endorse four-term incumbent Sen. John Cornyn, a favorite of the Washington establishment, over conservative crusader Ken Paxton, the state attorney general.
The Washington Post is now reporting that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has ended its contract with the operator of Camp East Montana—a detention facility inside the Fort Bliss Army base in El Paso—but says that the site will remain open.
According to a document distributed to ICE staff and reviewed by the Post, ICE was preparing a letter to terminate the $1.2 billion contract with Acquisition Logistics LLC, signed in July of last year. The facility’s contract with the company was set to expire in September 2027. Spectrum News 1 has not independently obtained a copy of the document.
The Post originally reported that the internal document showed that ICE was taking steps to close Camp East Montana, but the newspaper later corrected its reporting on Wednesday, March 11, with ICE officials telling the newspaper that it planned to keep the facility open under a different contractor.
3. Black Mountain holds private meeting with Fort Worth residents over controversial data center
On Wednesday night, the CEO of Black Mountain, Rhett Bennett, held a private meeting with Fort Worth neighbors to discuss his plans for a data center. Spectrum News 1 was there, but filming was not allowed.
Because this was not a public meeting, developers also asked residents to put away signs that read “No Black Mountain.”
Notes for Tomorrow
Friday, March 13
Bureau of Economic Analysis publishes revised GDP data for the fourth quarter of 2025, after last month’s advance data said that real gross domestic product increased at an annual rate of 1.4% in Q4, following annual growth of 4.4% in Q3
Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey
Pretrial conference for lawsuit brought by Elon Musk against OpenAI, alleging that leaders violated the organization’s founding mission as a research lab by shifting to a for-profit structure for their own benefit. Musk was a co-founder and co-chair of OpenAI in 2015 and claims that he contributed $40 million to the project. He is seeking unspecified monetary damages from ‘ill-gotten gains’ by OpenAI. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman denies the claims and called Musk a “frustrated commercial competitor.” Musk owns xAI, the developer of the chatbot Grok
Forbes Highest Paid Actors list published
2026 Milano Cortina Winter Paralympic Games continue, with nine gold medals decided across three sports
In Case You Missed It
Texas head coach Chris Beard talks to his players during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against Creighton in Austin, Texas, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Chris Beard’s Ole Miss team stuns Texas at SEC tourney, hurting the Longhorns’ NCAA hopes
Texas came to Music City needing at least a victory to bolster its NCAA Tournament resume.
The Longhorns’ former coach put a dent into those hopes Wednesday night.