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The recent redistricting of county commissioners court precincts has galvanized progressive organizers heading into 2026.

She's a death row survivor, but she doesn't think she's really any different from her friends who are still set to die.

The ACLU found official misconduct, perjury, and predominantly white juries to be leading contributors to exonerated death ...

The New York firm Odyssey is now running the state’s lucrative voucher scheme with a little help from the governor’s friends.

The Trump administration’s bans and airport detentions are derailing the academic dreams of students who carry out important ...

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Each year, nearly 800,000 people pay a small admission fee to pass through the gates of the capital city’s spring-fed ...

Pending drug charges have been abandoned from the multi-agency April operation that supposedly targeted Tren de Aragua and ...

On a June afternoon in McAllen in 1978, Diana Rivera, posing as a young pregnant woman, walked into the home of a local midwife. At Rivera’s side was a female friend, who was wearing a small, ...

Paul Barrows spends his nights half expecting a late-night call from his son, who is prone to manic late-night walks that leave him lost and disoriented. Barrows’ son, who’s is his thirties and lives ...

Editor’s Note: This piece discusses suicide and suicidal ideation. If you or someone you know is suicidal, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-TALK (8255) or the Trevor Project at ...