For scale, an estimated 700 detainees are currently held at “Alligator Alcatraz,” but the Trump administration’s ...

Over the weekend, officials in Texas announced that the number of people missing after the July 4 floods had dropped from ...

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Digital Producer Danika Young hosts a daily live show where she addresses today’s top trending stories on social media and ...

A spokesperson for the sheriff’s office said investigators work the missing person and decedent list “just like we would work ...

The aftermath of deadly flooding in Texas over the Fourth of July weekend has moved to the top of the agenda for a special legislative session that started this week.

(Reuters) -Texas Republicans on Monday launched a high-risk, high-reward redrawing of the state's 38 congressional districts, a move championed by President Donald Trump to protect the party's narrow ...

Thirty years after a heat wave killed hundreds in Chicago, a sociologist explains how governments deflected blame after ...

Federal records related to the investigation into the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. have been released.

As the Trump administration continues dismantling urgent functions of government, critics of that dangerous project should keep criticism grounded in facts, lest they undermine their own credibility.

Kerr County, where 135 people lost their lives on July 4, had no alert system in place, as taxpayers had refused to fund it. Lawmakers are examining an overhaul of natural disaster management during a ...

The search for victims of deadly flooding in Texas Hill Country is headed into its third week as officials try to pin down ...