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.

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

Yale College and is an editor and staff writer for the Yale Daily News. He's from a farm in the small town of Wills Point in Van Zandt County.

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

East Texans are uniting to fight oil waste pits in bucolic areas near the Louisiana line—all run by an operator who’s been cited for dozens of violations, and a worker’s death.

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 ...

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

Since it was signed into law on July 4, West Texas Republican Congressman Jodey Arrington has been broadly praised by allies for his stewardship of the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA).

In 1998, the San Antonio Police Department (SAPD) began requiring officers to fill out reports any time they had to use force, a big step toward tracking when and why police resorted to strong-arming ...

Marijuana prohibition is a Texas tradition. Unless Governor Greg Abbott vetoes Senate Bill 3, the state’s new ban on THC, the state is about to suddenly and drastically renew its commitment to that ...