Austin officers killed an unarmed 17-year-old at a park last month in what the chief swiftly deemed "suicide by police." Some call the concept a type of "junk science." ...
Austin officers killed an unarmed 17-year-old at a park last month in what the chief swiftly deemed "suicide by police." Some ...
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Last, I’m excited to welcome Jason Buch, another longtime contributor, to the masthead as a special investigative ...
And one Texan says the body’s decision “retriggered” the pain of losing his wife, who counts among the preventable deaths ...
The state's retail heat-advisory rule exempts municipal utilities or electric cooperatives. For those providers, federal data shows final notices continued through summer while actual disconnections ...
A version of this story ran in the May / June 2025 issue. The five members of the Navarro County Commissioners Court had rarely seen such a large audience for their Tuesday meeting as they saw in ...
The People of La Junta for Preservation, a nonprofit founded in 2024 that works to preserve Indigenous sites, and two Indigenous worshippers of Lipan Apache lineage are suing the federal government to ...
A new novel about workers at an organic grocery store asks us to consider questions of labor and dignity in the Texas capital ...
The State of Texas’s latest takeovers of four school districts, including Fort Worth, Beaumont, Lake Worth, and Connally Independent School Districts (ISDs) have already had a direct cost to local ...
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