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

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.

In Van Zandt County, a fight over water rights, government transparency, and land ownership came to a head with a proposed ...

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Sharman Apt Russell is a longtime nature writer. This essay has been adapted from her book, What Walks This Way: Discovering ...

On October 17, 2025, Texas Christian University announced it would close its Women and Gender Studies (WGST) and Comparative ...