A powerful storm is moving across the country and spawning multiple fires and severe thunderstorms with hurricane-force wind gusts and tornadoes that are knocking out power and causing damage Tuesday.

An Austin-based company is planning a $5 billion investment in New Mexico that could add about 1,000 jobs to the state’s workforce.

New Mexico health officials say an unvaccinated adult has died after a measles infection, though the virus has not been confirmed as the cause. The death comes as cases rise in Texas and New Mexico, prompting the CDC to send a response team.

While Austin's high tech industry was born in a former federal facility, the U.S. government has helped Austin and Texas since the 1840s.

The National Weather Service Prediction Center said on X that Monday afternoon, "travel hazardous" throughout the middle and southern Plains due to the haboobs, or dust storms, and the strong wind gusts that drive their movement.

The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) seized more than 30 pounds of THC and marijuana—including thousands of vape cartridges—during a traffic stop in Oldham Co. in the Texas panhandle.