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President Joe Biden says Congress must pass the bipartisan border deal that House Republicans derailed earlier this month. His comments followed a meeting with Border Patrol Agents in Brownsville, Texas.

Today is election day. Voters will decide on candidates for president, senators, U.S. and state representatives in the Democratic and Republican primaries. The El Paso County elections department recorded 17,975 total in-person ballots cast around 4 p.m. today.

The El Paso City Council is at odds over how much developers should pay for water and wastewater projects in growing parts of the city. Major projects like water treatment plants and interceptors are partly funded by impact fees, a one-time payment levied on new or expanded development.

Attorneys for the state of Texas and the Biden administration were back in court today arguing over the legality of a state law that permits local and state law enforcement officer to arrest someone suspected of being in the country illegally.

The city’s proposed multipurpose performing arts and entertainment center is back on the City Council’s agenda for next Tuesday. City planners are waiting on a decision from the council on where to designate a new location for the project.

The El Paso City of Council will vote on whether to approve the purchase of the former Bonham Elementary School on Tuesday. The sale is valued at $4.76 million dollars for the property and 13 acres on Cielo Vista Drive.

Just over one-hundred people were at the El Paso Community College campus in Far East El Paso for a viewing party of the partial solar eclipse. Students, children, parents and grandparents put their solar eclipse glasses on to look at the moon that slowly hid more and more of the sun’s rays on the Earth.

The El Paso Independent School District is planning to close several schools in response to a sharp decline in enrollment. Superintendent Diana Sayavedra told El Paso Matters the district doesn’t know how many of its 76 campuses will be affected.

Richard Dayoub from Thunderbird Management welcomes Fiean Liem, and Alex Mouquin to talk about tennis in El Paso.

The US Drug Enforcement Administration is expected to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug. The Associated Press reports the agency is moving to downgrade cannabis from a schedule 1 to a schedule 3 drug - like ketamine and codeine.