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." ...

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).

Around Galveston, Sam Collins III is better known as Professor Juneteenth. For the past 20 years, Collins, 53, has devoted his life to educating the public about Juneteenth—the commemoration of June ...

Adults in the committee hearing room spent hours discussing ways to affirm parental rights in Texas’ public school classrooms, but it was a teenager who wanted to school them on how some of the ...

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A 26-year-old employee at McBride Operating in Waskom was killed when a valve blew off a pump last year. Another worker had sued the company two years earlier after being injured on the job.

Operation Lone Star has turbocharged DPS’ surveillance capabilities. Lawmakers say they want to prevent Texas from becoming a police state but have filed only modest legislation to regulate use of AI.