University of Texas ripped as 'Orwellian' for naming journalism award after Dan Rather

Rep. Pat Fallon, a former Notre Dame football player with a big personality, says the future of the Republican Party will be more accessible, likable and inspirational.  The Texas Republican who openly considered primary-challenging Sen.

The family of a 19-year-old soldier found dead in Fort Bliss, Texas last week said she had been sexually assaulted by another soldier a year before her death and was "ready to fight" for justice in her case.

A Texas boy, 15, was charged with murder Sunday after surveillance video showed him beating his mother to death, police say. The boy's father called police to the family's home in McKinney, Texas, just before 1 a.m.

A Harris County deputy was killed in a motorcycle crash on Saturday after leading a funeral procession, authorities said.  Sgt. Bruce Watson had been with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office for 20 years.The sheriff’s office said Watson had just finished on off-duty job leading a funeral procession when his motorcycle was struck by a vehicle.

The Texas Supreme Court blocked local orders establishing an overnight curfew for restaurants to help limit the spread of the coronavirus, according to reports. The court issued the order Friday, conditionally granting state Attorney General Ken Paxton’s petition to block enforcement of orders in Austin and surrounding Travis County.

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Friday dismissed a last-gasp lawsuit led by a House Republican that aimed to give Vice President Mike Pence the power to overturn the results of the presidential election won by Joe Biden when Congress formally counts the Electoral College votes next week.

A Texas father of two shot and killed one of three intruders who entered his home Sunday and held his family at gunpoint, according to local reports. The following day, the home on 18th street in Port Arthur was also the apparent target of a shooting around 6 p.m., and a a few hours later a fire was reported there around midnight, Port Arthur News said.

Variety reported that he would — for the first time in the long history of either “The Bachelor” or “The Bachelorette” — miss several episodes of “The Bachelorette” and be replaced temporarily by Season 12 contestant JoJo Fletcher.He explained to viewers that he was just taking a break to take his son Joshua to college, and it would take some time to return to set because COVID procedures — which have allowed the spit-swapping show to continue shooting despite the pandemic — required him to

and The Bachelorette be without Chris Harrison? This dude has been lurking on set of ABC's long-running reality franchise for years, but his future as host appears to be uncertain amid reports that he's packing his bags and moving to Texas. was the first to report this news, saying that Chris is building a home in Austin's trendy Barton Creek area.

Chris Harrison taking his final bow in Bachelor Nation? Some fans think so.Rumors swirled around the longtime reality TV host, 49, on Tuesday, December 29, after The New York Post’s Page Six reported that he’s moving to Austin, Texas.

An up-and-coming football star has sadly died at the age of 19. Ty Jordan, who was a freshman running back at the University of Utah, passed away on December 26 after accidentally shooting himself in the hip, authorities confirmed. The Denton Police Department in Texas told HollywoodLife that officers responded to reports of a shooting at 9.38pm on December 25.

An up-and-coming football star has sadly died at the age of 19. Ty Jordan, who was a freshman running back at the University of Utah, passed away on December 26. The Denton Police Department in Texas told HollywoodLife that officers responded to reports of a shooting at 9.38pm on December 25.

Universities have recently been rocked by cheating scandals as remote learning during the coronavirus pandemic allows students more tools and access to circumvent the rules, according to reports. In Texas A&M, students were found to answer questions faster than they could even read them on a finance exam.

DALLAS -- A West Texas oilman's mural-sized print of an Ansel Adams photo has sold for nearly $1 million at an auction.Sotheby's New York, the auction house, said Tuesday that “The Grand Tetons and the Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming” sold for $988,000, a record price for Adams at auction.The photograph, taken on commission for the Department of Interior in 1942, shows a view of the mountains over Jackson Hole.

Staff Sgt. Nicole Pompei didn’t intend to start her own business this year, but after she turned her old Air Force uniform into a wreath, people immediately started asking her to make more.

A Texas woman who dumped the body of her 1-year-old daughter into a lake, then carried a life-size doll she claimed was the child, was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison. Tiaundra Christon, 23, was found guilty of tampering with a corpse in connection with placing her deceased daughter's body in Moses Lake in Texas City in 2018, according to KRIV-TV.

end of , Jared Padalecki is putting on his cowboy hat for The CW's .A reboot of , Padalecki says goodbye to Sam Winchester and hello to Cordell Walker, a Texas ranger who returns home to Austin, Texas, after being away on an undercover mission and is haunted by the death of his late wife, Emily (Genevieve Padalecki).

The lack of media attention paid to Rep. Eric Swalwell's, D-Calif., Chinese spy entanglement is “infuriating, corrupt, and disgusting," Rep.