For 30 years, the Texas Civil Right Project has worked to advocate for voting rights, disability rights, racial and economic justice and more. It was founded by attorney Jim Harrington who represented ...
If you’re someone who can’t help but feel that the pandemic messed with your sense of time, you’re not alone. Whether 2019 felt like just yesterday or a lifetime ago – or perhaps a bit of both, ...
It’s been nearly a year since a winter storm led to deadly power outages across most of Texas. In the months that followed, we learned the electric grid that serves almost the entire state was just ...
On Jan. 26, 1945, 19-year-old East Texan Audie Murphy almost single-handedly held off a German counteroffensive in occupied France. Murphy manned the machine gun of a burning tank destroyer, alone, in ...
Vogue Magazine is known to highlight fashion, beauty and culture. Celebrities including Zendaya, Harry Styles and Beyoncé have all graced the cover. But in the magazine’s summer issue, a feature ...
You may think that if you’ve seen one jellyfish, you’ve seen them all. One floating, stinging, blob can’t be that different from another, right? A group of marine biologists from Texas A&M ...
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer shot and killed a Mexican national Tuesday morning in Houston, according to a spokesperson with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which ...
It’s often difficult to evaluate a potential place to live based on the cost of rent alone. That’s because some landlords, including the largest owner and manager of apartments in the U.S., add a ...
YouTube is the dominant video platform on the Internet, and it has been for more than 15 years. Today, users upload 500 hours of new video each minute, and Google, which owns YouTube, makes billions ...
After more than a decade of declining enrollment, Texas community colleges are seeing steady gains as more students return to the classroom. Educators say the recovery reflects changing workforce ...
On a Thursday morning, dozens of people gathered in Columbus Avenue Baptist Church in Waco. They were not there to worship, but to learn English. Mahyar Hosseini is an engineer from Iran, and on that ...
Two weeks ago, four NASA astronauts left from Ellington Airport in Houston to embark on a historic mission, the likes of which had not been accomplished in decades. On Saturday, they returned to ...