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The ACLU found official misconduct, perjury, and predominantly white juries to be leading contributors to exonerated death ...

The Trump administration’s bans and airport detentions are derailing the academic dreams of students who carry out important ...

Yale College and is an editor and staff writer for the Yale Daily News. He's from a farm in the small town of Wills Point in Van Zandt County.

The New York firm Odyssey is now running the state’s lucrative voucher scheme with a little help from the governor’s friends.

Pending drug charges have been abandoned from the multi-agency April operation that supposedly targeted Tren de Aragua and ...

Each year, nearly 800,000 people pay a small admission fee to pass through the gates of the capital city’s spring-fed ...

Between mid-October and early November, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) and federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) signed a pair of agreements that will authorize some state ...

East Texans are uniting to fight oil waste pits in bucolic areas near the Louisiana line—all run by an operator who’s been cited for dozens of violations, and a worker’s death.

Whenever I see one, I think: fashion show. Something from Chanel. A bit of art deco. That black and white aesthetic.

On the evening of December 28, 2014, Kourtney Bogan got an urgent call from her younger brother in Clarksville, a rural town of 3,200 bordering Oklahoma in far northeast Texas. Their mother, Gayla ...

A version of this story ran in the January / February 2024 issue. Traffic had once again ground to a halt on the interstate highway that cuts through the Texas border city of Laredo, and Priscilla ...