The 20-story Torre Centinela looming over Juárez is part of a much larger AI-powered network that won’t stop at the ...

A killer storm two decades past still teaches lessons about survival and resilience in a world where weather is getting more ...

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House Bill 7 attacks one of the last remaining options for reproductive care in Texas and declares legal war on blue states.

"We’re hopeful that it means it doesn’t come back again, and that we can preserve some level of transparency for all Texans." ...

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I even attended a summer program at the National Water Center in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, in 2016 that focused on flood mapping ...

Since it was signed into law on July 4, West Texas Republican Congressman Jodey Arrington has been broadly praised by allies for his stewardship of the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA).

Editor’s Note: This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s AI Accountability Network. Over the past several years, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) has quietly built ...

The first time Phylis Canion saw the chupacabra, it was slipping through the pastures on her South Central Texas ranch in broad daylight. It was June 2007, and Canion, a naturopathic doctor and hunter ...

A version of this story ran in the July / August 2025 issue. Alonso Montañez killed the outboard, and the boat swung against the scum and trash that had accumulated in the stagnant water on the high ...