But experts say that, as Harris County judicial seats have swung with the political tides, it’s not partisanship that matters for criminal defendants.

A new ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) facility for unaccompanied children, families, and single women is set to...

**Habitantes y autoridades comunitarias exigen cancelar cualquier proyecto de fractura hidráulica y demandan respeto a sus derechos de consulta** Comunidades indígenas y autoridades comunitarias de la Huasteca potosina volvieron a manifestar su rechazo absoluto a la posible implementación de proyectos de fractura hidráulica, conocida como fracking, durante una movilización realizada en el municipio de Tancanhuitz. Con consignas de “Ni hoy ni nunca”, los participantes reiteraron su oposición a cualquier intento de extracción de gas mediante esta técnica en la región.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is targeting LGBTQ stories. They are trying to control what you see on television. This government overreach is dangerous...

Victims of Rankin County’s “Goon Squad” sued a local supervisor for defamation, saying he falsely called them rapists and “dopers” in public remarks.

ATOP LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, Maine (AP) — The founder of Burt’s Bees envisioned a tribute to Henry David Thoreau when she began buying thousands of acres of logging company land to donate for what would bec...

Dr. Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts graduate student who was arrested and detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement last spring, will return home to Turkey following a settlement between her lawyers a...

Leading Off: A Kansas Judge finds medical evidence does not support the state's trans youth care ban, and Texas Children's Hospital settles with Ken Paxton to create a detransition clinic. Our top hea...

Over the next decade, three trends will shape the sector.

The legislative response to Calvin Duncan’s landslide victory has a long, shameful history in Louisiana.

"This is how the attack by one petro-state (ours) on another (Iran's) may be turning out to be very bad for petroleum, because the only thing history loves more than a surprise party is irony." The C...

“Black people will not be fully able to breathe—a word I do not use lightly—until property itself is abolished.” –Rinaldo Walcott * There is perhaps no film that so clearly illustrates …

A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.

The supreme court has kicked the can down the road after a federal court sought to ban the mailing of mifepristone

The City of Jackson is attempting to halt a new water authority from taking over its water and sewer system under a new Mississippi law.

New segregationists’ need to use euphemisms shows the weakness of their intellectual position and the Civil Rights Movement’s moral clarity.

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Black-led vigilance committees not only protected and aided fugitives but also learned from the formerly enslaved as they built a movement pedagogy together.

Legislators are (sort of) beginning to grapple with the grim costs that come with the state’s data center boom.