WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will declare a national emergency, send troops to the southern border, deport undocumented immigrants en masse and reinstate a policy requiring asylum seekers to wait their cases in Mexico — and Gov. Greg Abbott will be a key partner, he said during his inauguration on Monday.

Only minutes after being sworn in as the 47th President of the United States, Donald Trump praised Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security policies and promised Texas would have support from Washington now that he was in office.

The state of Texas is working with the Trump administration to secure the southern border. Already, the state has announced new initiatives as the White House targets criminal undocumented immigrants.

Temperatures will rise to nearly 70 degrees by Friday, but then plummet over the weekend and next week. Wind chills could fall into the teens.

Most of the United States is being assailed with extreme winter weather this week as Arctic air blasts south from Canada, snow tracks up the Northeast coast and a potentially crippling winter storm takes aim at the South.

More than 220 million people across the United States are facing dangerous cold that will also open the door for a potentially historic and crippling winter storm that could deliver snow as far south as Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.

Johntay Cook and Washington have parted ways just a couple of weeks after the former 5-star committed to the program.

Vanderbilt is back in The Associated Press women’s basketball Top 25 for the first time since 2014, ranked No. 23 this week.

The Southeastern Conference has postponed Thursday night’s women’s basketball game between No. 5 LSU and No. 2 South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina, until Friday

The USC Trojans are not holding back on their recruiting. USC coach Lincoln Riley and the Trojans are already making a push for the No. 1 wide receiver from the

John Chase was the first Black person to graduate from the University of Texas at Austin's School of Architecture and to become a licensed architect in the South.

Initially, the IRS made Direct File available only to government employees in 12 states: Arizona, California, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington State and Wyoming. It was later made available to private-sector taxpayers.