One sheriff who leads an anti-smuggling task force says the software helps “develop leads to eventually obtain probable cause ...

The state has signed off on voucher funds for schools that exclude non-Christian and LGBTQ+ kids.

A scheme to relocate the unhoused out of one Texas city's downtown sheds light on a larger right-wing takeover of federal ...

Though petro-giants have long sought lost assets in the South American country, they have reasons, for now at least, not to ...

The special election in Senate District 9 pits “people power” against mountains of conservative cash and the rising influence ...

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At the close of an awful year, a religion scholar offers reflections on resisting despair in dark times, for the religious and non-religious alike. The editor of this publication wasn’t exaggerating ...

A scheme to relocate the unhoused out of one Texas city's downtown sheds light on a larger right-wing takeover of federal homelessness policy.

Texas lawmakers are ordering nearly all counties to seek federal agreements that may be limited to jailhouses—or may convert deputies into roving immigration agents.

For months, locals and landowners have tried to stop the Permian Highway Pipeline, a piece of infrastructure connecting West Texas’ prolific oil fields to the state’s Gulf Coast refineries. But ...