Some Texans of color have spent much of their lives working through how racist attacks left them feeling less American. Now, those attacks are coming from the president. | Read more|
Stevens led the court's effort to provide legal protections for prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. | Read more|
All Democrats voted in favor of the resolution, which passed in a near party-line vote. Only one Texas Republican, U.S. Rep. Will Hurd, R-Helotes, joined Democrats in the vote. | Read more|
“Naivete, resentment and outright racism, roiled in a toxic mix, have given us a racist president," the attorney and husband of Kellyanne Conway wrote. | Read more|
Johnson is the only Texan remaining in Congress who voted for the bill, which has become deeply unpopular among Democrats and is a contentious issue in the 2020 presidential primary. | Read more|
After centuries of fighting back water in a low-lying nation, the Dutch have become the world leaders in flood control. And their expertise is helping Texas design what would become the nation’s most ambitious — and expensive — coastal barrier. | Read more|
The president lobbed an inaccurate attack at several Democratic lawmakers on Sunday, saying they should "go back" to the countries they came from. | Read more|
Behind The Lens episode 40: ‘You don’t know exactly what you’re gonna get until it gets here’ | Read more|
Something that we’ve been thinking about and talking about in town hall meetings and out on the campaign — the legacy of slavery in the United States — now has a much more personal connection,” O'Rourke wrote. | Read more|
Entergy’s emissions reduction goals would yield higher emissions than it produced in 2017 | Read more|
ICE suspends immigration enforcement in Southern Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf Coast, spokesman says | Read more|
In its first enforcement action under a controversial new law, Texas sued San Antonio last year, alleging that the city had broken the law in December 2017. | Read more|
The soccer star celebrated her team’s World Cup victory at a ticker-tape parade in Manhattan. | Read more|
Obstacles prevent access to mental health care, even among insured | Read more|
U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Austin, told a migrant whose daughter died shortly after being in federal custody that "there are no words" for what happened to her child. But he also said Democrats' claims that kids are kept in cages is an attempt to "score political points." | Read more|
7 tips for covering the 2020 US census | Read more|
Lots of Texans have great stories and interesting experiences. But some — like Ross Perot — pack more tales into a lifetime than most of us. | Read more|
The UT System allocated $160 million of its oil money for the project. | Read more|
Jennifer Walker Elrod, a federal appeals court judge appointed by George W. Bush, asked the majority of the questions in a two-hour session Tuesday on Texas' lawsuit. | Read more|
British ambassador to the U.S. Kim Darroch had lambasted the Trump administration as “inept” and “incompetent” in leaked diplomatic messages. | Read more|
She's undermining her own caucus. | Read more|
During a legislative session focused on schools and taxes, Texas lawmakers did little to prepare for the possibility that Obamacare will be struck down in its entirety — even as the state leads the charge to have the law declared unconstitutional. | Read more|
Look at the immigration problem, at the issues on the border, at what lawmakers are doing in response and at the polling of what voters think. It looks like the fight might be more beneficial to the politicians than a solution would be. | Read more|
This week on Behind The Lens: | Read more|
The judge whose nomination was blocked by Mitch McConnell in 2016 is more than a decade older than Trump's two Supreme Court justices. | Read more|
The government has begun printing the census forms without the question, and that process will continue, administration officials said. | Read more|
Weeks after state lawmakers wrapped up an education-focused legislative session, Texas teachers heard Democratic presidential hopefuls share their plans to reshape public education nationally. | Read more|
Scientists warn that heat waves are becoming increasingly common due to human-caused climate change. | Read more|
Editor’s note: Longtime Lens Opinion Editor Jed Horne is retiring this month and handing off his duties to Jessica Rosgaard, host and producer of Behind The Lens. Before he leaves, Lens staffers decided to offer our own opinions on Jed. | Read more|
In less than two months, the number of migrants sent to Cuidad Juárez under the program has swelled from 2,800 to 7,600. Human rights groups and a former Mexican government official say migrants aren't safe in the border city. | Read more|
With Border Patrol facilities overwhelmed, San Antonio's hastily opened migrant center, housed in an old Quiznos, is seeing hundreds of migrants arriving daily, many without money or a place to go. | Read more|
In late April, Norman High School teacher Jeremy Davis received a recruitment email from Epic Charter Schools, an online Oklahoma charter school that has earned praise, criticism and scrutiny in recent years during a period of rapid growth. | Read more|
2020 census: How undercounts and overcounts can hurt US communities | Read more|
The Homeland Security Department's Office of Inspector General visited five Border Patrol facilities in South Texas last month and found "dangerous overcrowding and prolonged detention of children and adults." | Read more|
The Democratic presidential candidate, sharply challenged on his signature issue Wednesday night, spent the next few days working to show his bona fides. | Read more|