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The High Cost of Targeting International Students in Texas

The Trump administration’s bans and airport detentions are derailing the academic dreams of students who carry out important research—and sometimes pay hefty tuition—to attend Texas institutions.

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Rachel Cooke obituary

Journalist, literary critic, food writer and columnist whose work graced the Observer for 24 years

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Tributes paid to ‘fearless and funny’ Observer journalist Rachel Cooke who has died aged 56

Cooke, who worked for the Observer for 25 years and was described as its ‘backbone’, was diagnosed with cancer earlier this year

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Prosecutors Drop Only Criminal Cases from Hays County Airbnb Raid

Pending drug charges have been abandoned from the multi-agency April operation that supposedly targeted Tren de Aragua and led to multiple deportations.

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Texas’ Top Voucher Vendor Taps Abbott Allies in Contract Bid, Program Rollout

The New York firm Odyssey is now running the state’s lucrative voucher scheme with a little help from the governor’s friends.

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Crypto’s Cryptic Texas Takeover

State regulators don't want you to know about the 60-plus Bitcoin mines guzzling public water and electricity—even though consumers are already paying the price.

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Houston’s Top Magnet High Schools Could Become Private Partnership Charter Schools, Raising Equity Concerns

Texas' largest school district may even convert its renowned performing arts institution under a program that benefitted the state-appointed superintendent in his previous career.

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Texas Turns Its Sprawling State Police Force Into Immigration Agents for Trump

The notorious 287(g) task force program has finally reached DPS, raising fears of widespread racial profiling.

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Black Bookstore Owners, Government Spies, and Murder

At the 2025 Texas Book Festival, authors bring new insights to complex stories in nonfiction.

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Bail Crackdown on Ballot Ignores Mental Health Crisis, Advocates Say

Even without Proposition 3, "The jail system is already the largest warehouse of people with mental illness in the state of Texas."

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‘It’s been a cesspit, really, my life’: war photographer Don McCullin on 19 of his greatest pictures

At 90, McCullin has spent seven decades recording conflict and tragedy – while escaping snipers, mortar fire and capture. He reflects on pain, pride and regret

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Lord Taverne obituary

Ousted Labour MP who had a famous byelection win against his old party in 1973 and later joined the SDP

The Guardian - UK

Texas Can’t Keep Up with Surge in Workers’ Wage Theft Complaints

State labor investigators struggle to process more and more paycheck complaints, with millions of dollars in workers’ pay at stake.

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ICE Still Won’t Answer Questions About Prosecutor with White Supremacist X Account

Congressman Marc Veasey arrived at an ICE facility Monday in his latest attempt to follow up on the Observer's reporting.

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Trump’s ICE Arrested a Whistleblower Who Exposed Sexual Assault in Detention. Now, He’s Left the Country.

Douglas Menjivar is a survivor and activist. He’s also married to a U.S. citizen, but he was caught up in the president’s mass deportation agenda anyway.

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Lesley Cookman obituary

Other lives: Author of the Libby Sarjeant ‘cosy crime’ series

Texas Observer

In Dallas, Organizers Mourn the Immigrant Victims of Recent ICE Shooting

At a vigil outside city hall last week, advocates gathered to “center the victims” and to condemn the “dehumanization” of migrants by the federal government.

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Inside the Rift Between Texas Dems and a Soros-Backed PAC

The Texas Majority PAC is the latest deep-pocketed initiative meant to turn Texas blue. But have its dollars just brought more discord?

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‘I Got a Lot of People Believing in Me’: Robert Roberson Stares Down Death, Again

Set to be the first U.S. person executed based on the controversial “Shaken Baby Syndrome” diagnosis, Roberson told the Observer last week he hopes his story will mean something.

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Burden of Proof

Her mother had been in a nursing home paid for by Medicaid. Now, the state wanted its money back: “It was like wild animals pouncing on meat."

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Inside Tarrant County’s Dogged Prosecution of a Pro-Palestine Activist

Raunaq Alam has been in and out of jail five times in relation to anti-Israel graffiti on a Christian church. His lawyer says the case shows "how easily the government can roll back all of our civil rights."

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Liv Little and Miranda Sawyer’s hot culture takes: best podcasts of the week

The gal-dem CEO and Observer critic join forces to dissect everything from Jade Thirlwall’s rise to true crime. Plus, is word-of-mouth hit Wisecrack the next Baby Reindeer?

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Texas Domestic Workers Face Trump Attack on Minimum Wage

Advocates warn a proposed rule by the Department of Labor will deepen the country’s “crisis of care.”

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Officials Said They Busted a Tren de Aragua Party. Attendees Beg to Differ.

A highly publicized multi-agency raid in Hays County resulted in dozens of arrests on low-level immigration charges and left an Austin mother's life in tatters. It also fit a pattern of unproven gang-related accusations.

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A Wave of School District Takeovers Could Be Coming. Some Past Interventions Ended with More Failing Schools.

Fort Worth ISD is among the districts that could join Houston in having its elected board deposed, while Beaumont and Edgewood ISDs offer a cautionary tale.

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