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As labor shortages deepen, bosses ask, 'Where are the immigrant workers?'

The pandemic has hammered the U.S. economy by crushing the ability of immigrant workers to fill jobs, according to a growing number of studies. Labor shortages are rippling through the service

Opinion: How the biggest march you never heard of awakened a Texas farmworker movement

Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy in labor rights includes a 1966 march that energized...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's border strategy questioned by foes after pay issues, suicides

Republican Allen West and Democrat Beto O'Rourke are criticizing the mobilization of thousands of Texas National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border.

A plain pine coffin and eco-friendly cremation are the last acts of Desmond Tutu

Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, who died last Sunday, chose to be aquamated, a more environmentally friendly alternative to cremation. It is 90% more energy efficient than a traditional cremation.

UPDATED: Williamson County commissioners exclude Leander ISD, Round Rock ISD from coronavirus...

Williamson County Commissioners Court voted 4-1 to allocate additional federal coronavirus relief funds to school districts in the county except for Leander ISD and Round Rock ISD during its Dec. 14...

Leander ISD pulls 11 books from curriculum after year-long review

The books were almost immediately pulled when they came under fire last year. Now, some are being removed permanently, while others will be put back in circulation.

Migrants caught in Texas’ border crackdown could face longer prison stays

Despite a surge of arrests under Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security initiative, a Kinney County judge removed three judges who have been helping him hear the cases. The judges had been letting some...

Clear Creek ISD parents call for superintendent to resign over alleged 'anti-white' indoctrination

Less than a year into his role as Clear Creek ISD superintendent, a group of conservative...

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Perspective | The violence at the root of our Thanksgiving myth has been hemispheric

Native history is central to the U.S.’s — and Mexico’s — modern political dilemmas of marginalization and racism.

Blacks, Latinos and Native Americans disproportionally killed by Covid-19 last year, study says

Deaths among Blacks and Native Americans were 3 to 4 times higher and Latino deaths were nearly 2 times higher than in white populations, the study found.