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A school board vote to cancel a summer Pride event represented one of the first government-sponsored cancellations of the ...

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We're going to defend our immigrant communities from Trump's attacks, while we hold Trump and people like Elon Musk ...

“We're going to defend our immigrant communities from Trump's attacks, while we hold Trump and people like Elon Musk accountable for spreading lies and scapegoating immigrants.” ...

Since the Kingdom of Life Academy moved from its location at the Colonial Hills Baptist Church in Tyler to its own 23-acre ...

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At the Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church in Houston’s Third Ward, the writing appeared to be already on the wall for Propositions A and B—a pair of school bonds totaling $4.4 billion for the ...

A massive investment by a conservative PAC has paid off in key down-ballot judicial races, most critically in the Democratic stronghold of Harris County. The PAC received more than $18 million ...