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DALLAS — Governor-appointed regents now have unprecedented oversight of Texas’ public universities under a new law that is transforming the face of higher education in Texas.

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The six-week government shutdown that came to an end late Wednesday will be another drag on an economy already facing many ...

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The Argentinean chef Francis Mallmann is notorious for his love of cooking over open flames. With his New York début, he fizzles out.

POLICE have arrested four teenage boys after they allegedly broke into a crematorium, smashed urns on a rock and scattered the contents across nearby scrub. Officers were patrolling near the ...

In a recent study, Dr. Matthew S. Taylor presents a compelling reexamination of human bone artifacts unearthed at various prehistoric archaeological sites across South Texas. These modified bones, ...

In an extraordinary archaeological breakthrough, researchers have uncovered seven large ceramic urns under the roots of a fallen tree in the Brazilian Amazon. These urns, which contain human remains ...

You’re alive and reading this right now (thanks, btw), but one day you’ll be dead, despite your best efforts (sorry). Maybe by that time, in the very distant future, you’ll have lived an impossibly ...