{"id":219171,"date":"2026-03-25T04:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T04:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/219171\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T04:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T04:00:24","slug":"morning-briefing-texas-march-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/219171\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Briefing Texas March 24"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning, Texas. Here’s what you need to know today.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Your Weather Planner<\/p>\n

TK<\/p>\n

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Get your 7-day forecast:\u00a0Austin<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0San Antonio<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Dallas<\/a><\/p>\n

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\nIntroducing Spectrum News+
Watch the latest news and more local stories from across the country.<\/p>\n

Around Texas\u00a0<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Questions grow over proposed ‘mega’ immigration detention facility in El Paso<\/a><\/p>\n

Questions and concerns are mounting over a possible large-scale immigration detention center planned for the El Paso area, as local officials say the federal government has shared little information about the project.<\/p>\n

The uncertainty comes as new details emerge about three massive warehouses recently purchased by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, properties that could soon be converted into one of the largest immigration detention facilities in the country.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0University of North Texas to cut more than 70 programs and minors to trim $45 million deficit<\/a><\/p>\n

The University of North Texas is cutting or consolidating more than 70 academic programs, minors and certificates as it works to close a projected $45 million budget shortfall, including phasing out its linguistics degrees and eliminating a women\u2019s and gender studies master\u2019s program.<\/p>\n

The cuts are the first indication of how UNT plans to close the deficit, which it says was driven largely by a sharp decline in international enrollment \u2014 students who typically pay significantly higher tuition \u2014 and reduced state funding. Last month, university leaders warned that program consolidations, faculty buyouts and higher teaching loads were likely.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Musk announces plans for ‘largest chip manufacturing facility ever’<\/a><\/p>\n

Billionaire Elon Musk announced plans to build a chip-manufacturing facility during a weekend presentation in Austin.<\/p>\n

During a livestream on Saturday, Musk said the Terafab project would be a collaboration between his companies Tesla, SpaceX and xAI. The name comes from the project\u2019s goal of producing one terawatt of computing annually.<\/p>\n

Around The Nation<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Trump says U.S. is talking with an Iranian leader as he extends deadline for striking power plants<\/a><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0ICE officers go to TSA checkpoints at Trump’s direction, while long wait times at airports persist<\/a><\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Supreme Court sounds skeptical of late-arriving ballots, a Trump target<\/a><\/p>\n

Deep in the Heart of Texas
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Texas’ new coach Sean Miller gives a “Hook’em Horns” sign after he was introduced during an NCAA college basketball news conference in Austin, Texas, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo\/Eric Gay, File)<\/p>\n

March Madness is Miller time for Texas as the No. 11 Longhorns return to the Sweet 16<\/a><\/p>\n

Sean Miller was the coach at Xavier last season when he knocked Texas out of the\u00a0NCAA Tournament. A week later, Miller was wearing burnt orange and flashing a \u201chook \u2018em horns\u201d hand sign when he was introduced as the\u00a0Longhorns\u2019 new head coach.<\/p>\n

Call it a good hire. After a bumpy first regular season where the Longhorns barely made it into the NCAA Tournament, Miller has the No. 11-seed Longhorns cruising into a surprise Sweet 16 as this season\u2019s\u00a0March Madness bracket buster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning, Texas. Here’s what you need to know today.\u00a0 Your Weather Planner TK Get your 7-day forecast:\u00a0Austin\u00a0|\u00a0San…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[2160,138,140,139,30432,27,835],"class_list":["post-219171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-app-top-stories","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-hannah-maguire","tag-texas","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}