Riya Misra just graduated from Rice University, where she spent two years as editor-in-chief of its student-run newspaper, The Rice Thresher. She spent a summer in Washington, D.C. fine-tuning her investigative reporting skills.
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A Dallas police officer is on administrative leave after being accused of stealing nearly $38,000 worth of products from local Apple stores, where he worked as an off-duty overnight security guard. After noticing a pattern of missing products in March, employees at the Apple stores installed covert cameras
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President Donald Trump told congressional Republicans on Tuesday that he’s hoping to gain an additional five Republican seats in the U.S. House — through a rare redistricting effort Democratic lawmakers have called a threat to democracy and an “unacceptable betrayal of Texans.” California Gov. Gavin Newsom even escalated, making
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott doesn’t want you reading his emails with the world’s richest man — not because he doesn’t want the public knowing about Elon Musk’s rapidly growing influence in the state. They’re simply too “intimate” and “embarrassing,” Abbott has claimed. In April, The Texas
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James Avery, the Kerrville-based and nationally renowned jeweler, is giving back to its hometown — and to the Camp Mystic girls who’ve been devoted to the brand for decades. The company, most popular for its charm bracelets, has pledged $1 million toward flood relief efforts in the Hill Country
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Thirty-nine-year-old Jordan Macha spent more than ten summers at Camp Mystic, as both a camper and a counselor. She can imagine in precise detail how the youngest girls, age 8, were tucked into their beds on Thursday in their cabins overlooking the Guadalupe River — hours before it
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Just what Texas’ sprawling, harrowing, and permanently-under-construction roadways needed — more English literacy quizzes. Truck drivers in the Rio Grande Valley are being questioned about their English literacy, just a week after an executive order took effect that reinforces English proficiency requirements for truckers. Forty drivers in Southern states
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Dallas-based faith leaders are suing to block a “religiously coercive” bill that requires Texas public schools to display posters of the Ten Commandments. The plaintiffs are all parents, suing on behalf of themselves and their minor-age children, and allege that S.B. 10 “unconstitutionally pressures students” into observing
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Social media influencer Brian Johnson, better known as the “Liver King,” was arrested at his hotel in Austin on Tuesday night after posting dozens of bizarre, rambling videos “picking a fight” with famous podcaster Joe Rogan, KXAN first reported. He is facing a misdemeanor charge of making a terrorist threat,
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In a civil trial beginning Monday, the city of Austin will respond to allegations of a “culture of impunity” in the city’s police department — after a lawsuit claimed misconduct has gone relatively unchecked. In 2021, Alex Gonzales Jr. was fatally shot in an “apparent road rage incident” with officers
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The man accused of assassinating a Minnesota lawmaker and wounding another has roots in Texas. Vance Boelter attended a nondenominational religious school in Dallas, Christ For the Nations Institute, the school confirmed in a press release. On its website, the school details its religious beliefs, including that marriage is “between
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Tesla is “tentatively” rolling out its robotaxi service next week, as Elon Musk finally follows through on his decade-old promise to develop a self-driving Tesla taxi. “We are being super paranoid about safety, so the date could shift,” Musk said on X — which means the launch could be
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Texas will spend $50 million to research a naturally occurring but illegal substance, ibogaine, that induces “mind-bending hallucinations” and is heralded by advocates for potential treatment of addiction and brain trauma. Because psychedelics are fine, but recreational THC for pain relief is not.Yee haw. Former Texas governor and