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Hubbard Middle School food service staff members Sherry Scott and Anita Patel serve lunch to a family in the school's parking lot in Tyler, Texas on Monday, March 16, 2020. While schools are shut down because of the coronavirus, Tyler Independent School District Food Services is providing free curbside meals at designated school campuses from March 16-20. to all Tyler ISD students. (Sarah A. Miller/Tyler Morning Telegraph via AP)

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Despite Trump’s attempt to paint the Texas-Mexico border as a war zone, border counties are safer than the president’s own backyard. And local lawmen don’t believe a wall will do any good.

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As soon as February, the border wall is headed for a state park, a butterfly refuge and the land of a Hispanic family who’s called the Rio Grande Valley home since before it was the United States.

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The best Texas history museum you’ve never heard of is staring down a financial crisis. Will it survive?

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