New 287(g) task force agreements are trickling in as the Lege considers mandating ICE cooperation and some counties await ...

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Emmy-nominated producer. She is the Inprint Mary Gibbs and Jesse H. Jones Fellow in the University of Houston’s Creative Writing Program, where she is pursuing her MFA. Her poetry has appeared in Mom ...

DEI campus crackdown, Republicans are now going after gender and ethnic studies programs and faculty independence.

We oppose this execution as we do every execution. Capital punishment is an act of state sanctioned violence that violates ...

The governor crushed anti-voucher Republicans in the Texas House, but there are still plenty of party activists who are ...

The wind blows from two directions to the Los Vientos Wind Farm, Texas’ largest and the nation’s second largest, with 426 ...

The Legislature’s lower chamber has finally blessed school vouchers—and denied ordinary Texans the chance to weigh in.

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More than 50 years later, some Houston families still wait for confirmation that their sons and brothers were among the victims of serial killer Dean Corll. The Scientist and the Serial Killer ...