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If production of energy were a race, there’s no doubt Texas would be winning. Oil and natural gas infrastructure continues to grow. In fact, according to recent figures, over three-quarters of ...

A new report shows Black and Latino consumers are twice as likely to be prone to digital scams or cyber attacks. According to the 2024 Consumer Cyber Readiness Report, while only 6% of white consumers ...

The Supreme Court on Monday allowed a Texas law prohibiting minors from downloading apps without their parent’s consent to go into effect. Multiple organizations had sued the state, arguing that the ...

Just west of downtown Austin, in what was established as the freedmen’s community of Clarksville, Don Baylor grew up playing baseball in the streets. “There were no parks in Clarksville,” Baylor’s son ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has confirmed 31 New World screwworm infestations, including 30 in Texas and one in New Mexico, as federal and state officials continue working to contain the ...

Great film and TV projects are sometimes a reinterpretation of a great book. And the most popular book of all time? Well, that’d be the Bible, with billions of copies sold. So perhaps it’s no wonder ...

“A humble monument to the kind of magic only books can summon.” That’s the description of the fictional bookstore Milagro’s Books on the first few pages of “The Chismosas Only Book Club.” The tiny ...

Hundreds of bills passed earlier this year, during Texas’ 89th legislative session, took effect on Monday, Sept. 1. Texas now has a whopping 835 new laws on the books, touching nearly every aspect of ...

An official review of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement begins in July. President Trump already has suggested the U.S. would be better off without it.

The United States officially entered World War I 100 years ago, Thursday. While the fighting took place overseas, the war’s impact was far flung, much of it striking right here in Texas. Ben Wright, ...

On May 30, 1932, composer, accordionist, and theorist Pauline Oliveros was born in Houston. At age 16, she acquired her first accordion and decided she wanted to be a composer. She relocated to San ...