Jesús Escalona Mújicas, a 48-year-old Venezuelan asylum-seeker, says he was en route to work at a construction site on the ...

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Beathard was put to death in 1999 for murders that his co-defendant claimed to have committed without him. A new ...

As public attention has shifted away from policing reform, legislators attempt to shove information into the dark.

A flood of cash following Roe’s fall has dried up, leaving Texas nonprofits struggling to keep pace with the state’s abortion ...

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Republican lawmakers have for years refused to engage with precautionary climate resilience and disaster-response measures.

It’s on the agenda at the Texas Capitol, but advocates worry heavy-handed ‘accountability’ will remain intact.

I’m scared of what’s being lost in our classrooms: critical thinking, open dialogue, and the freedom to be ourselves.

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Cy Fair ISD in Cypress, Texas. She is the founder of the Youth Executive Leadership Program (YELP), a nonprofit organization dedicated to teaching public speaking skills to underrepresented students ...