By Maia Rosenfeld January 29, 2026 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — In 2019, after a routine vaccination, 11-year-old Keithron Thomas felt a sharp pain in his shoulder and down his arm. His mother, Melanie Bostic, thought it would go away after a few days. But days turned to weeks, then months, and years. Bostic learned of a…

By Berenice Garcia, The Texas Tribune January 29, 2026 STARBASE — Since establishing a South Texas headquarters more than a decade ago, SpaceX has quickly grown its operations here, expanding its staff from 300 in 2020 to more than 3,400 in 2024. The company is growing once again, taking on two new projects that will…

By Joshua Fechter, The Texas Tribune January 29, 2026 DALLAS — It’s getting harder to afford living in Texas — even as incomes and educational attainment grow and poverty declines. Despite the state’s robust economic growth since the start of the decade, incomes in Texas haven’t kept pace with the nation at large, U.S. Census Bureau…

By Eleanor Klibanoff, The Texas Tribune January 29, 2026 Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. This is one of a four-part series of surveys featuring candidates in the Republican and Democratic primaries for U.S. Senate and attorney general. Read…

By Jaden Edison, The Texas Tribune January 28, 2026 The Texas State Board of Education delayed voting on a proposed list of required books for K-12 students Wednesday night after hours discussing the reading materials’ religious focus and hearing public concerns about a lack of racial, ethnic and gender diversity. Voting 13-1, the board delayed…

By Ayden Runnels, The Texas Tribune January 28, 2026 Charles Thompson, who once briefly escaped custody after being sentenced to death, was executed Wednesday evening for the 1998 double murder of his former girlfriend and her friend.  Thompson had gotten into an altercation at his then-girlfriend Dennise Hayslip’s apartment in Houston with her and her…

By Gerardo del Valle, The Texas Tribune January 28, 2026 On Jan. 20, 2025, President Donald Trump took the podium at his inauguration and promised to halt unauthorized border crossings and “begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens to the places from which they came.” ProPublica and The Texas Tribune spent…

By Lomi Kriel, The Texas Tribune January 28, 2026 SAN ANTONIO — Flanked by state and local leaders, U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, a San Antonio Democrat, and U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a Dallas Democrat, on Wednesday called for the immediate release of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father Adrian Conejo Arias, whose arrests in…

Longview, Texas (January 30, 2026) The Martin House Children’s Advocacy Center held a groundbreaking ceremony on Thursday, January 29, 2026, to signify the beginning of construction on a new facility to serve abused children and their families. Among those who were turning the ground was Roxanne Stevenson, CEO, Michael Clements, Jr., Capital Campaign Chair, Melanie…

We don’t need better training for the men who killed these activists. We need a moral movement to disarm them and reconstruct democracy. By William J. Barber II, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove | January 26, 2026 From 1920 until 1938, a flag on Fifth Avenue in New York City proclaimed an uncomfortable reality to passers-by on New…