UTEP senior media advertising major Isaac Tauaefa is making his mark on this season of Fox’s hit talent competition The X Factor. Tauaefa also played football for the Miners for two seasons before suffering a knee injury. “Playing football in front...

Bike lanes have been added to El Paso’s streets in recent years. This has led to the presence of more bike riders around the city. Although more bike lanes have been added, bike riders say there is still need for more, especially around UTEP and surrounding...

Rep. Beto O’Rourke, D-Texas, said students should not be impacted by the partial government shutdown as long as it reopens before Oct. 17, which marks Congress’s deadline to raise the debt ceiling that could prevent a default. In an Oct. 5 interview,...

Utep students and alumni gathered to celebrate the annual homecoming parade and pep rally Saturday morning. The parade started at University and Oregon and was proceeded with the pep rally on Glory field.   

WASHINGTON – Police shot and killed a woman Thursday after she rammed a security barricade at the White House, then sped down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol. Two police officers were injured, neither seriously. The Capitol and House and Senate...

WASHINGTON - How many Republicans does it take to tear down a fence? Apparently quite a few. About a dozen senators and representatives, including Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn.,  welcomed veterans from the Honor Flight program to the World War II...

WASHINGTON – Democratic House members unveiled a new immigration reform bill Wednesday and called on Republicans to act now on comprehensive reform. “The time is now to pass comprehensive immigration reform,” Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Calif., said....

WASHINGTON – House Democratic members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus said Tuesday they’re disappointed and frustrated that House Republicans repeatedly blocked a vote on a continuing resolution that could have avoided a government shutdown....

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The 2013 annual homecoming parade, hosted by the Student Engagement and Leadership Center, will take place on the perimeter of campus and on a different day due to inner campus construction, which has forced other events such as Minerpalooza to relocate....

Editor’s note: This story was written Sept. 30. Due to the subject matter, some facts may have changed since the time it was written. WASHINGTON — Visitors to Washington may not think a government shutdown will affect them, but if they plan to...