It was opening day of the 2021 legislative session, and the perimeter of the Georgia State Capitol on Monday was bristling with state police officers…
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Texas Church Shooting: Fugitive Kills Pastor, Officials Say
A police chase on Saturday evening in East Texas culminated in a fatal confrontation on Sunday morning in a church between its pastor and a…
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‘A Slap in the Face’: The Pandemic Disrupts Young Oil Careers
HOUSTON — Sabrina Burns, a senior at the University of Texas at Austin, had thought she would be launching a lucrative career in the oil…
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A Year of Watching Earthly Beauty Burn
I have a pastime, one that used to give me considerable pleasure, but lately it has morphed into a source of anxiety, even horror: earth-watching.…
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Scenes From a Pandemic Holiday Road Trip
The roads were icy in Frostburg, Md. In Jolly, Texas, the mood was somber. Still, despite a season filled with challenges at every turn, by…
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Republicans Find Themselves Speechless Following a Supreme Court Defeat
A day after President Trump’s stinging defeat in the Supreme Court, Republicans around the country seemed to be having trouble finding the right words. The…
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Supreme Court Rejects Texas Lawsuit Challenging Biden’s Victory
Legal experts almost universally dismissed Texas’ suit as an unbecoming stunt. In invoking the Supreme Court’s “original jurisdiction,” Texas asked the justices to act as…
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Two Reasons the Texas Election Case Is Faulty
Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, has asked the Supreme Court to do something it has never done before: disenfranchise millions of voters in four…
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‘Is Exxon a Survivor?’ The Oil Giant Is at a Crossroads.
HOUSTON — Over the last 135 years, Exxon Mobil has survived hostile governments, ill-fated investments and the catastrophic Exxon Valdez oil spill. Through it all,…
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Watch SpaceX’s Starship Launch and Explode in Crash Landing
A test of a prototype of a rocket that Elon Musk has dreams of sending people to Mars in flew several miles high on Wednesday.…
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