BASTROP, Texas — One Texas city is the lone town representing the Lone Star State on a list of the best small downtowns in America. Bastrop was featured on HGTV’s 40 Most Charming Small Downtowns in America—the only Texas town to make the list. According to HGTV, Bastrop is known as “the most historic small…
Kemah, Texas — At 7-foot-3, Jordan Wilmore has always had lofty goals, but ones that he kept mostly to himself. “It was hard for me to share, like, my dreams or, you know, the stuff I wanted to do growing up because it was, ‘Well, you just got to focus on basketball because it can make…
Plano, Texas — In many ways, Tejasvi Manoj of Plano, Texas, is an average 17-year-old. “You’ve got to balance, like, all of your classes, and then you have college applications as well,” Manoj told CBS News. But she’s spending much of her senior year of high school with a different type of senior, visiting older…
Then-President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk view SpaceX’s sixth Starship test flight last November. Credit: Shutterstock / This story was originally published by ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Before and after the 2024 election, Elon Musk made it…
With president Trump continuing to fight to keep the long overdue tariffs in place, China is working equally as hard to try and topple the U.S. dollar. “Xi Jinping has made no bones about the fact that he wants to displace the United States as the preeminent country in the world, and he also wants…
El Paso, Texas — The long white tents, visible to anyone driving across East El Paso, Texas, are designed to be part of the biggest immigration holding facility in U.S. history, with a capacity for as many as 5,000 immigrants. “That’s what it is, a giant tent city,” Democratic Rep. Veronica Escobar of Texas, who…
CLEVELAND, Texas (AP) — Police in Texas are searching for a man who opened fire at a bar early Sunday, killing a person and wounding five others in a county northeast of Houston. The Liberty County Sheriff’s Office said the shooter arrived at the Alas Locas restaurant and bar near Cleveland, Texas, around midnight, reports…
Amid growing anger from his political base, US President Donald Trump has defended his proposal to admit 600,000 Chinese students over two years, but analysts warn that the policy reversal may not ease the pathway to American colleges. Reaction to last month’s announcement prompted the administration, which previously “aggressively revoked” visas for Chinese students, to…
A Texas law restricting property ownership and leasing by Chinese citizens came into effect this week, thrusting affected residents into legal limbo with no path to relief before November. The law, which restricts real estate purchases by companies, individuals and government entities linked to countries that the federal government deems a threat to the US,…
Beginning at 8 years old, Chloe Childress followed a family tradition of spending summers at Camp Mystic, a private Christian summer camp for girls located along the Guadalupe River in Texas Hill Country in an area known as “Flash Flood Alley.” This year, she turned 18, and went from camper to counselor. “She was very…