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The new federal holiday marks the day residents of Galveston received General Orders No. 3, which freed slaves in Texas.

Texas was the last state to receive the news that slavery had ended.

The Mexican state of Veracruz hired a prominent lawyer to recover billions laundered in the Houston suburbs. Then things went awry.

Volunteers help navigate a reproductive health network devastated by SB 8.

In 1997, Joel Myrick, then an assistant principal at a Mississippi high school, used his personal pistol, which he kept in his truck, to stop a 16-year-old school shooter with a rifle. Even Myrick—one of the extremely rare cases of an armed teacher intervening in a school shooting—says that arming…

Our people are searching for new leadership, and progressive Democratic Latinas are a viable option.

Holly is alive and well, but who killed her parents?

Federal law requires handgun owners to be at least 21 years old. That's not the case for AR-15s.

‘He’s an elder statesman of bullshit.’