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Haiti Deportations Are Surging — Returnees Handed a Meal and 10,000 Gourdes; Experience Ongoing Instability

Deportations to Haiti have surged since TPS ended, with 450+ sent back into gang-held territory and little support, HRW finds.

Latin Times · Sep 21

A Month After ICE Deported Him to Central Africa, a Cuban Deportee Still Has No Passport

A month after ICE flew him to the Central African Republic with no warning, Cuban deportee Yasmany Moreno has no passport and no path home.

Latin Times · Sep 2

Families brace for change as Third Future takes over more struggling Texas schools

The Waco school district is one of the latest to partner with the Third Future charter network as a last-ditch effort to stave off state intervention.

The Texas Tribune · Aug 5

A Texas town hopes a new data center will pay to fix its cracked streets and leaking pipes

Lacy Lakeview, a Waco suburb, said it is considering a data center project in efforts to boost their spending power to repair aging roads.

The Texas Tribune · May 29

A Texas town needs Waco’s help to realize its data center dreams. It’s not going well.

Lacy Lakeview’s hasty approach to the data center project has alienated the Waco officials who would control water service to the site. “Without the City of Waco agreeing to it, Lacy Lakeview can’t do anything out there and neither can Infrakey," State Rep. Pat Curry said. "Those guys don’t know…

The Texas Tribune · May 14

After 1,700 Sundays preaching outside and under bridges, a Central Texas pastor retires

Urban minister Jimmy Dorrell bade farewell Sunday to his outdoor Waco congregation after baptizing a dozen people in the chilly waters of the Middle Bosque River.

The Texas Tribune · Apr 7

Hundreds of Texas public school students walk out to protest ICE killings

Some students walked out of schools Friday afternoon to join demonstrations throughout the country condemning the actions of immigration enforcement officials.

The Texas Tribune · Jan 31

Texas 2025: Year in Photos

Photojournalists document another year across Texas. Our photos illustrated the tense redistricting debate at the Capitol, the aftermath of the Hill County floods and more.

The Texas Tribune · Dec 31, 2025

Proposed data center project for Waco area would be “paradigm-changer”

The project is at a scale of industrial development and investment unmatched in McLennan County’s history: acres of computer hardware, substations and a 1.2-gigawatt gas-fired plant capable of powering about 300,000 homes.

The Texas Tribune · Nov 24, 2025

Waco’s public radio station faces uncertainty after 25 years on the air

The radio station launched a last-ditch fundraising campaign to save the station, after cuts from both Baylor University and Congress.

The Texas Tribune · Sep 11, 2025