A Colorado company will design the dredging of a section of a South Texas waterway that flooded during historic recent rains, the U.S. International Boundary and Water Commission says.

A California man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to trying to kill U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his home in a suburb of Washington, D.C., nearly three years ago.

Restoring even a fraction of the Tamaulipan thorn forest could help the region cope with the ravages of a warming world.