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The Red & Black spoke to voters across Athens-Clarke County as the precincts were closing ahead of 7 p.m. on Nov. 8.

  The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has resumed construction on 13.4 miles of levee in the Rio Grande Valley that had been left unfinished after President Biden The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced last month that it was taking steps to repair the Rio Grande Valley’s flood barrier system after the Trump administration made holes in the structure to make way for the border wall. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers confirmed in a statement to The Hill that the construction has officially resumed. ADVERTISEMENT “In support of CBP’s border infrastructure program, the U.S. Ar...

Efforts to rush parts of President Donald Trump's border wall in his final days in office are doomed and in some places have actually harmed border security, according to campaigners. Witnesses to the work in Arizona told Insider that mountainous parts of the border were easier to reach now than when Trump took power four years ago, as the process involved building new roads over rough terrain. This is a small portion of the whole border, hundreds of miles of which have been fortified. But sources told Insider that they'd seen a resulting increase in crossings in these weak spots, which were ...

Work on half-finished sections of Trump's Mexico wall is futile and in some places has made border security worse, campaigners say mjankowicz@businessinsider.com (Mia Jankowicz) © John Darwin Kurc A view of Guadalupe Canyon, Arizona, facing east, with switchback roads in the distance. Since this photograph was taken, a 100-foot canyon has been blasted here. John Darwin Kurc The rush to complete President Trump's border wall with Mexico is in some places worse than pointless, campaigners have told Insider. In order to reach the border, contractors have blasted roads into ter...

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. LA GRULLA, Texas — The federal government said it needed Ociel Mendoza's land on the outskirts of this tiny Texas town — and it couldn't wait any longer. Each additional day of delay was costing the government $15,000 as contractors waited to begin construction on the border fence slated to go through Mendoza's ranch, the Department of Justice argued in court filings. By Nov. 24, the tab for the delay had reached nearly $1.6 million, the land...