
Braving ‘La Bestia’
Asylum-seekers risk life and limb to reach America as President Biden tries to dissuade them.
Since 1954
Asylum-seekers risk life and limb to reach America as President Biden tries to dissuade them.
Dallas County Judge Amber Givens was accused of having her court coordinator impersonate her during a 2021 Zoom bond hearing, prompting a Rangers inquiry.
Half of the fish in the Mission-Aransas Estuary vocalize. One scientist is dedicated to recording and decoding their thumps, pops, and other sounds.
Culture ⋆
Multifaceted, multidimensional, Meow Wolf is “art for everybody.”
Rural Republicans team up with Dems to reject vouchers in intra party showdown on the House floor.
“A man who doesn’t spend time with his family can never be a real man.”—Vito Corleone
A grand jury indicted Christopher Taylor after the 2020 shooting of Michael Ramos in South Austin. He is believed to be the first Austin officer ever prosecuted for murder after an on-duty killing.
Genovevo Izaguirre’s social media accounts feature anti-LGBTQ+ and Islamophobic propaganda.
The long arm of the lieutenant governor reached far into the Paxton impeachment saga.
Judges argued that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality illegally enabled Port Arthur LNG to avoid air pollution control requirements.
The U.S. market—and seafood processors’ freezers—are overflowing with cheap farm-raised imports.
Railroad Commissioner Wayne Christian wants the Board of Education to reject accurate descriptions of environmental science in school books.
How Black women and men cover, decorate, and celebrate their locks to embrace their pride.
A new book from UT Press provides a troubling twist on the vow “until death do us part.”
Weird weather, unusual attacks on education, and zoo animals keeping cool, in the latest dispatch from far-flung Texas.
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