Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar sought to bar the Trump administration from using federal funds to build border barriers in the national park, which is rarely traversed by migrants.

Texans across the political spectrum opposed wall construction in the national park. Now the agency’s plans include roadways and digital surveillance to monitor the rugged region.

On their 2024 album _Last Circle in a Slowdown_ , Big Bend took concert recordings and reconfigured them, bending that live energy into weird, spacious and intricate constructions. Leader Nathan Phillips does something similar for his project's first Lagniappe Session, turning these covers into loose, free and focused interpretations of the source material. _Slowdown_ bore the light but pervasive…