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The pipeline’s owner is “the same company that got $2.4 billion richer when Texans froze to death during Uri,” one activist ...

The condemned Texas man was convicted of killing his daughter in 2003 based on an outdated ‘shaken baby syndrome’ diagnostic ...

The sheriff is a position that serves no legitimate purpose in modern America, Jessica Pishko concludes, and the United ...

This year I worked as an election polls worker in the North Forest MUD district in the Houston area. As an advocate and worker in the arena of education and mental health, election season is ...

A version of this story ran in the September / October 2024 issue. East Davis Street in Luling is lined with low-slung brick mom-and-pop shops. One, a cafe, is actually called “Mom’s Front ...

Bipartisan Legislators Join Calls for Clemency for Robert Roberson . The condemned Texas man was convicted of killing his daughter in 2003 based on an outdated ‘shaken baby synd ...

A new book takes aim at the seemingly unchecked power of America’s gun-toting sheriffs. Get our latest in-depth reporting straight to your inbox.

The condemned Texas man was convicted of killing his daughter in 2003 based on an outdated ‘shaken baby syndrome’ diagnostic process.

A new book takes aim at the seemingly unchecked power of America’s gun-toting sheriffs. Get our latest in-depth reporting straight to your inbox.

Ken and Angela Paxton have ties to a jet-setting lobbyist-turned-CEO caught in a tangled web of alleged fraud involving a powerful business clan and a commercial shipping giant.