102 sourced entries: court rulings, watchdog findings, alleged war crimes and measured harms, each with the administration's own defense.

With the 2026 midterms roughly two months away, the Trump administration is ramping up its attempts to interfere with and undermine the election. The main threat to be aware of is the USPS’s plan to s...

Learn who can vote in Texas, how to check if you're registered, register to vote in Texas, and prepare for voting day.

President Donald Trump is mobilizing the whole of the U.S. government to disenfranchise voters, sow chaos, and create doubt around the midterm elections. Between the Department of Justice sending elec...

Texas Monthly reporter Jack Herrera traveled all 1,900 miles of the river to learn more.

Event is likely to be largest in at least 1,000 years and will pile extra heat into a world already in a climate crisis

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President Trump ramped up his efforts to undermine faith in the U.S. election system last month, signaling his intent to cause turmoil in the upcoming midterm elections. * To support my work, you ca...

Trump’s authoritarian makeover of D.C. continued in June, funded with money stolen from the National Park Service. In total, the 18 major construction projects Trump has undertaken during his second t...

The majority of people in every country support action on climate, but the public consistently underestimates this share.

A data center houses a server rack with supercomputer hardware. The San Marcos City Council voted Tuesday night to prohibit data centers within city

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Claim from Delhi comes a year after India announced that it will suspend decades-old river-sharing treaty with Pakistan

The SpaceX IPO is the latest and largest example of Musk's unrepentant decisions and farfetched predictions working in his favor.

A smiling and shirtless giant inflatable of Elon Musk appeared in Times Square to protest SpaceX a day before its historic IPO.

"I’ve spoken. I’m not debating this."

The Vicious Cycle of Homeless Camp Sweeps

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A federal judge agreed on Friday to extend indefinitely a court-ordered block on the Trump administration's creation and operation of a $1.8 billion settlement fund for…

Gov. Greg Abbott is a top sponsor and Speaker Dustin Burrows will be the first sitting speaker to address the gathering, as Republicans close ranks ahead of a tough midterm.

Politicians in Northern Ireland and the UK are denouncing masked rioters who attacked immigrant families in Belfast. Billionaire Elon Musk incited violence with anti-immigrant rhetoric.

In a previously unpublicized letter to Congress, the newly-departed head of ICE said the agency collects data on people suspected of potentially unlawful activity, which could include protesters.

“The cruelty is the point.” So goes the common saying to explain the Trump administration's nonsensical policies with no apparent purpose other than harming people. It is a worthy adage, but misses an...

Brutal El Nino, drought, war threatens food supply

Tesla's Full Self-Driving is so ready for the future that some of the people who trained it reportedly will not get in the car. Reuters interviewed nine former Tesla data…

UN scientists warn that the environmental cost of the technology is being underestimated

Geneva, Switzerland (WMO) - Fueled by unusually warm ocean waters in the tropical Pacific, El Niño conditions are developing and are set to influence global temperature and rainfall patterns, increasi...

ENVIRONMENT In the last month, the Trump administration has lifted a ban on the use of cyanide bombs on federal land, ended limits on forever chemicals in drinking water, allowed off road vehicles in...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees are taking their own lives at a pace that’s unprecedented in the agency’s two-decade history, highlighting what experts call failures in care and oversigh...

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Lone Star State officials are scrambling to get ready for projects that serve artificial intelligence, but a draft water outlook skips the subject.

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Two weeks ago, the U.S. Supreme Court issued their opinion in Louisiana v. Callais, gutting one of the few remaining mechanisms to protect the right to vote and enforce the promises of the Fourteenth ...