Anyone needing more proof that Gov. Greg Abbott’s pricy border crackdown is more performative than practical got that Friday, when Abbott blasted a White House proposals aimed at more quickly overturning migrants’ asylum claims. President Joe Biden on Thursday unveiled proposals to hasten the rejection of asylum claims for migrants with past criminal convictions. The new […]
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. In 2021, Bryan Collier, executive director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said that tablets would “fundamentally change” communication for the state’s more than 100,000 prison inmates. The devices, TDCJ officials said, […]
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Liany Serrano Oviedo crouched in her yellow graduation dress, stared at the mirror and carefully blotted her tears with a wipe. It was a rare moment for the 22-year-old University of Texas at […]
San Antonio Spurs phenom Victor Wembanyama is officially an alien. If his intergalactic play this season didn’t have you believing he was from another planet, Wembanyama, the NBA 2023-24 Rookie of the Year (ROTY), accepted the Wilt Chamberlain Trophy on Saturday afternoon at San Antonio College’s Scobee Education Center & Planetarium.
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Cancun Mexican Restaurant in downtown New Braunfels could reopen more than two years after the roof caved in from a late-night fire that destroyed the building. Cancun, which specialized in Tex-Mex staples and Mexican seafood, was a popular lunch and dinner spot for 17 years before the Nov. 14 fire at 636 S. Seguin Ave. […]
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. EL PASO — Twice in recent months, hundreds of migrants have rushed a border gate in El Paso in an effort to push past state troopers and National Guard and get into the […]
Researchers at UT Health San Antonio will lead a five-year, $11 million study on a possible vaccine for the nation’s most commonly reported sexually transmitted disease. The grant from the National Institutes of Health will take a mutated version of the chlamydia STD to determine if it works as a vaccine against a disease that affects […]
For the second year in a row, a study by Forbes Advisor has named Texas as the state with the worst mental health care. For May, which happens to be Mental Health Awareness Month, the business site’s researchers analyzed which states have the best and worst mental health care based on factors including access to […]