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

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

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.

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

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

President Donald Trump’s deadly invasion of Venezuela and kidnapping of its president could be an unusually clear example of “blood for oil.” The president has nearly said as much himself. But one ...

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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 ...

Between mid-October and early November, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) and federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) signed a pair of agreements that will authorize some state ...

Once a month, 79-year-old Ann Gaskill pulls her Dodge Caravan into the parking lot of the Ark Church in Conroe, where Combined Arms, a Houston-based veterans organization, operates one of its mobile ...

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