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From groceries to childcare, Texans are spending more to live here. Here’s how much costs have risen, why it’s happening and what candidates are proposing to fix it.
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Mark Wiggins, Irving's legislative affairs officer, took the role in November of 2025.
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Texas' execution chamber as seen from the witness viewing room at the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville.
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Steven DePolo via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)For National Taco Day, Mando Rayo, host of the Tacos of Texas podcast, traces Taco Bell's origins.
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Before brought to the Rio Grande Valley, patients that needed peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) — a minimally invasive procedure used to treat digestive disorders like gastroparesis and achalasia — had to travel far for treatment.
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The Atlantic's Caitlin Dickerson's has been documenting the children left behind — and the caregivers who find themselves in difficult positions.
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The steep enrollment decline was more than twice what district leaders had prepared for in their budget, adding pressure to the district to navigate more state funding losses even after closing schools and cutting hundreds of staff positions.
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NPR Music culture critic and reporter Rodney Carmichael ruminates on the latest in rap culture. This week: an unbothered, radically different, equal but opposite response to rap's podcast bros.
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NPR's Michel Martin hosted a panel conversation about mental health and suicide in the Black community, exploring a difficult subject in deeply personal conversations.
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The USS Abraham Lincoln is returning home to San Diego Thursday after supporting the Iran war during a record long deployment of 265 uninterrupted days at sea that included reports of deteriorating conditions among its crew.
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U.S. authorities added new torture charges to their case against former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, ramping up pressure on the ousted authoritarian leader already fighting drug trafficking allegations.
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Four people — two NASA astronauts, one from the European Space Agency and a Russian cosmonaut — spent nearly eight months at the space station, conducting spacewalks, science experiments and research.