Removal of Rio Grande floating barriers paused by appeals court

Texas for the time being will be allowed to keep its floating river barriers in the Rio Grande in place after a U.S. appeals court Thursday temporarily paused a lower court's ruling that would have required the state to remove the controversial buoys, which are intended to deter migrants from crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. At the request of Texas, the New Orleans-based Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an administrative stay of Wednesday's ruling by Senior U.S. District Judge David Ezra while the appeals process plays out. Ezra had issued...