A much-talked-about football player at Baylor University—whom coaches “expect back” this fall—is currently on trial for the sexual assault of a fellow student. Questions now swirl around what the program knew and when they knew it.
The grim traveler sampled the offerings with a heavy heart.
In protest of the annual punishment from central Texas’s arboreal parasite.
An unscientific, untrimmed analysis of the phenomenon of Ted Cruz Beard Thirst.
Yes, I know ”apple time, apple time” was a joke. But why were so many of us willing to believe it of the NBA star?
Two burning questions answered in one post.
It's not just the pandemic. Texas's beloved grocery chain has been developing its disaster response for more than a decade.
Our intrepid reporter biked behind the human whose job it is to follow, and help train, Austin’s new pizza-delivery robots.
Some folks in Texas's poorest city see a new downtown mural funded by the billionaire's foundation as the writing on the wall.
The damages awarded this week in Austin are only the beginning of the likely end of Jones and Infowars. But it remains to be seen what that means for other purveyors of misinformation.
The HBO series ‘The Last of Us’ spent its first act showing us how Austin would handle people-eating monsters. Houston, on the other hand . . .
Is it too much to ask for the concession stands to sell Minion tacos?
The Houston Texans have sacked their fourth head coach in three years. Perhaps that means the franchise’s woes run far deeper than its on-field leader.
“Ain’t no laws when you’re drinking Claws” appears to hold up in court.
Representative Jared Patterson’s bill is a second swing at stopping pet stores from getting animals from out-of-state for-profit breeders.
He serves popcorn with panache.
The legislation would rewrite a portion of the education code to target programs that represent marginalized groups.
May we suggest tickets to Cancun?
Heather Schaefer saw a desperate Facebook plea. Six months later, she had two new members of her extended family—and one less kidney.
The DA in El Paso County shares a name with an iconic Texas comedian. How well can you tell them apart?
Austin Democratic representative Donna Howard’s legislation seems written to try to appeal to Republicans.
The plaintiff was found to lack legal standing to bring the case. That has big implications—and not just for abortion laws.
The band aims to bring Texas Guns and Roses to its kn-kn-kn-kn-knees—or at least compel it to change its name.
Recent history and polling tell us that voters would support a measure to stop lawmakers from restricting abortion access—which is precisely why it’ll never pass.
The rap star spent more than three hours praising Nazis on Infowars, while making the host squirm—but not for the reasons you might think.
There’s potential for the two to be an iconic duo, a new generation’s Robert Redford and Paul Newman.
From the man responsible for emptying it.
Under his new Texas bill, any community theater that hosts a performance of ‘Peter Pan’ could find itself regulated as a strip club.
The small-government conservative has proposed a bill to allow pregnant drivers to access carpool lanes.
Will Beyoncé finally get her Album of the Year award, and more we want to know.
John Bloom, a.k.a. Joe Bob Briggs, discusses his 2004 opus on the making of the slasher classic and the New York bias against a Texas original.
It’s worked for the GOP elsewhere, and nothing else has worked for Democrats here.
Republicans are pursuing South Texas Latinos. Democrats are counting on the Dobbs abortion decision. Nobody knows who’s going to turn out to vote. And the polls are all over the place.
For the first time in fifty years, single-issue abortion voters are pro-choice. Can Texas Democrats capitalize on it?
Where’s the passion? Where’s the intensity? And where are the robot arms, Congressman?
The ninth installment in the Rocky franchise puts honorary Texan Michael B. Jordan and official Texan Jonathan Majors in the ring, and we are here for it.
We know she’s a savage and a big ole freak, but is the Houston hometown hero funny? On ‘Saturday Night Live,’ we found out.
We expected political statements, massive crowds, and sweaty concertgoers. We saw two out of three.
Spurs legends past and present reminded residents that they haven't been forgotten in the months since the shooting at Robb Elementary.
An abortion to save the life of a pregnant patient is “not an abortion,” according to Texas’s junior senator.
After years of breakups and makeups, the rock band is back with a poppier sound.
Discussions of race or sex, or just the wrong vibes, are all it takes for a book to number among the 801 bannings in Texas this year.
On his summer barnstorming tour of Texas, Beto O’Rourke argued that Republicans are waging war against Texas values.
The lieutenant governor said the company was “discriminating against the oil and gas industry." He didn’t mention his own holdings in the firm.
There was crying in baseball after a Pearland pitcher beaned a Tulsa batter on Tuesday. What happened next might restore one’s faith in humanity.
The damages awarded this week in Austin are only the beginning of the likely end of Jones and Infowars. But it remains to be seen what that means for other purveyors of misinformation.
Plaintiffs’ attorney Mark Bankston and F. Andino Reynal, who represents Infowars in the case, both have distinct challenges. Last week, their tensions boiled over.
The trial this week in Austin to determine what Infowars owes in damages for defaming Sandy Hook parents could have had huge free-speech implications. Because of Jones’s choices, it won’t.
A jury in Austin, selected on Monday, is about to grapple with that surprisingly complicated question.
After KVUE and the Austin American-Statesman published video from inside Robb Elementary, one policeman incorrectly became a symbol of larger failures.
Enjoying that AC? Thank the mighty power of the sun and the renewable energy source keeping the grid afloat.
The 82-year-old actor, known for playing the heaviest of heavies, was an instrumental part of the movie that launched the careers of Wes Anderson and the Wilson brothers.
Big John’s approval rating has taken a serious blow in the month after the Uvalde shooting—driven largely by Republicans and independents.
Amid worst-in-a-decade drought conditions, fireworks displays from Lubbock to Fort Worth to Houston sparked flames.
Texas, as well as neighboring Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana, will outlaw abortion within days to weeks. The procedure will still be available in Kansas and New Mexico.
John Cornyn helped wrangle other senators from both parties to advance a spate of provisions. But will the Texas Legislature follow his lead?
A smoking octopus and pointy-eared aliens: Johnson's sketches on political letterhead are wonderfully weird.
In a last-ditch bid to avoid paying massive damages to the Sandy Hook families he defamed, the Infowars host sought bankruptcy protection—and failed to win it.
Follow along with the latest sayings and doings of Louie Gohmert, the Republican congressman for Texas’s First Congressional District.
Harini Logan claimed the top spot last night, making her the seventh Texan spelling bee champ in the last ten years. T-E-X-A-S!
