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Joyce Slocum, who led both NPR and Texas Public Radio into a new era for public media, died Sunday from complications of colon cancer.
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A new report from the Sierra Club details how asset management companies are funding fossil fuel projects through purchasing billions of dollars in bonds despite commitments to reducing emissions.
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Paxton, a Republican who beat impeachment charges last year, has commented for the first time on why he has not listed six out-of-state properties on his state ethics forms.
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Texas has gone to court to fight federal efforts that would save the life of a mother if an emergency abortion is medically necessary.
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A woman and two children drowned in the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass on Friday night as they were attempting to cross the U.S. southern border. TPR has confirmed that U.S. Border Patrol was prevented from deploying lifesaving efforts by agents with Operation Lone Star, the controversial Texas border security initiative.
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Bob McCranie, a Dallas based real estate broker, created Flee Red States — a real estate service to help marginalized people in Texas find new welcoming homes.
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With tens of thousands of trucks passing through Laredo each day, bridges and roads are critical to this center of North American trade.
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San Antonio families have been fighting for school funding equity for 50 years. But wide disparities in funding still exist.
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“Texas seems poised to execute a man who committed no crime except that he was a man with autism who was unable to explain the very complicated medical condition of his two-year-old child,” Attorney Gretchen Sweden told TPR.
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Congressman Henry Cuellar was carjacked at gunpoint Monday evening in Washington D.C. but the Laredo Democrat was unharmed in the incident, according to his chief of staff.
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The Texas Department of Criminal Justice said its officers used excessive force and have asked the Inspector General to criminally investigate a Sept. 5 incident that saw 13 guards terminated or resign and an inmate still in hospital more than two weeks later.
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Guinness World Records certified the world’s largest piñata, created by a group called the Masa collective, a group of local artists.