Nisha Gopalan is a former Senior Overnight Assignment Editor for Investopedia News. She is an award-winning financial journalist who has worked in London, where she is currently based, and Hong Kong.

The U.S. government will breed billions of sterile flies at a South Texas fly factory to battle a flesh-eating maggot capable of decimating the state’s cattle industry. Construction will begin on a ...

The U.S. plans to build a $750 million factory in southern Texas to breed billions of sterile flies, ramping up its efforts to keep flesh-eating maggots in Mexico from crossing the border and damaging ...

Ranch hands move cattle at a ranch that supplies livestock for export to the U.S., in Zamora, northern Mexico, Tuesday, July 29, 2025, as the U.S. border remains closed to Mexican cattle imports over ...