After years trying to create a scholarship at UT's College of Pharmacy for Hispanic scholars, Texas Exes denied it because of its diversity focus, a donor said.

Kindergarteners and college freshman alike are heading back to school as ICE agents disappear undocumented families.

Emmanuel, a 15-year-old who has an intellectual disability, walked away from his mom’s fruit stand in October. Houston Police called ICE.

Gutsy, fearless journalism is alive and thriving. Look back with us at the hopeful and heartbreaking reporting from The Barbed Wire in 2025.

As a Latina and a child of immigrants, a college journalism class taught me there was more to being Texan than the myths we tell ourselves.

Camp East Montana is now the largest immigrant detention facility in U.S. history, but it’s just one of 19 sites that will add a total of 37,649 new beds for ICE detainment — a 105% increase in the st...

Kindergarteners and college freshman alike are heading back to school as ICE agents disappear undocumented families.

In a bold stand, Texas lawmakers decide that pain relief is just too fun to be legal.

Lowery resigned after allegations that he made inappropriate sexual comments in meetings with students and unwanted sexual advances toward journalists, records show.

Austin drag queen Brigitte Bandit hosts ‘LegiSLAYtion & Liberation’ every Tuesday night to teach people about the legislative process.

SB 2880 would make it a felony to pay for abortion costs and allow private citizens to sue pill distributors, prescribers and payment platforms.

A bipartisan effort to clean up the mess of Texas’ abortion bans passed the Senate. It doesn’t make exemptions for rape or fatal fetal abnormalities.

Bey’s Rodeo Chitlin’ Circuit, comes to Houston in June. Opening night tells us, she’s making sure the world knows what it means to be Texan.

If there is one dark joy these days, it’s still being able to laugh at the world’s richest man, who consistently exhibits the aura of a divorced dad showing up at the skate park. Over the weekend, zil...

Texas doctors say here’s how to navigate pregnancy, miscarriage, complications, and what to consider if you need life-saving abortion care.

Turner, a Democrat, represented Texas’ 18th Congressional District after the passing of U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee.

When her daughter was a toddler, Melissa Rojas’ husband told her: “I'm not in love with you anymore.” Moving back to the Rio Grande Valley felt like defeat at first, but raising her daughter and recon...

Historians and German philosophers warn that Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s takeover of the federal government has all the hallmarks of fascism. What now?

Thanks to Trump’s tariffs, beer companies are preparing to tack another $2 onto the price of beer cans.

Bounty bills, bathroom bills, and genetic testing of high schoolers are all on the table as Republicans renew their attacks on trans people in Texas for the 2025 legislative session.

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For thousands of people across the state, Monday — dubbed “a Day Without Immigrants” — topped off a weekend of protests against Trump’s racist immigration crackdown. Dallas, Houston, Pflugerville, McA...

Texas bladesmith Johnathan Sibley was just minding his business at The Blade Bar in Edom — a tiny town between Tyler and Dallas — when a couple waltzed in with a request: Could he swap a Hitler Youth ...

Traducción por Alejandra Rios El lunes, el presidente Donald Trump hizo el juramento de toma de posesión de su segundo periodo presidencial. El miércoles ya había firmado una serie de aterradoras órde...

State Rep. Dustin Burrows, a Republican from Lubbock, was elected Speaker of the Texas House Tuesday, fending off a challenge from the (further) right as Democrats helped him win the third-most powerf...

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If there’s one thing Beyoncé’s Christmas Day performance had, it was soul. On Dec. 25, during the halftime show at the Houston Texans vs. Baltimore Ravens game, the winningest-ever Grammy Award recipi...

If there’s one thing Beyoncé’s Christmas Day performance had, it was soul. On Dec. 25, during the halftime show at the Houston Texans vs. Baltimore Ravens game, the winningest-ever Grammy Award recipi...

“As Black people, the world is a lot more surreal,” Tony- and Emmy-nominated multidisciplinary artist Daniel J. Watts told me in 2023. “You have to pay attention to it enough to acknowledge — awarenes...

The year was 1987, and the Nintendo Entertainment System was all I thought about.  The Japanese video game console was king of the universe, and I wanted one.  I was 11 years old and my life sucked in...