A multistate surrogacy controversy poses significant ethical questions about the practice, according to a leading medical ethics and surrogacy expert. The case centers on an Alaska woman acting as a ...

During his 16 seasons as an NBA head coach, Mike D’Antoni made a name for himself with his fast-paced, “seven seconds or less” offense-oriented system. It’s a system that saw him win NBA Coach of the ...

This month some of the country’s best sketch comedy performers will head to ColdTowne Theater in the Texas capital city for this year’s Austin Sketch Fest. “We review dozens of submissions every year ...

Aida Barrera was never trained as a teacher and didn’t know anything about television. But in 1962, she got a job in TV that started her on a path that would lead her to becoming a pioneer in the ...

Big Bend is one of the more remote and less-visited national parks in the country. But it’s been getting some national attention in recent months: Federal officials have faced scrutiny over constantly ...

Here are the stories on Texas Standard for Monday, Jan. 27, 2026. Check back later today for updated story links and audio. Detainees protest conditions at South Texas migrant center People detained ...

Three years after Gov. Greg Abbott announced Texas would take the extraordinary step of building a state-funded wall along the Mexico border, he has 34 miles of steel bollards to show for it. That ...

Author David Streitfeld was not yet ready to call “Lonesome Dove” a great American novel. “But it’s certainly the great Texas novel,” he said. “And it seems like a lot of people — in Texas and outside ...

Gov. Greg Abbott blasted the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to preserve birthright citizenship on Tuesday, calling it “a missed opportunity” after the justices rejected President Donald Trump’s effort ...