By Arthur Allen November 17, 2025 While the FDA is streamlining regulation of copycat versions of the expensive drugs that millions take for arthritis, cancer, and other diseases, the U.S. patent office is making it harder for the cheaper medicines to get on the market, industry officials say. These officials were thrilled Oct. 29 when…

By Claudia Boyd-Barrett November 17, 2025 In July, federal immigration agents took Milagro Solis-Portillo to Glendale Memorial Hospital just outside Los Angeles after she suffered a medical emergency while being detained. They didn’t leave. For two weeks, Immigration and Customs Enforcement contractors sat guard in the hospital lobby 24 hours a day, working in shifts…

Author April Haley retells the Nativity from heaven’s viewpoint in a children’s play designed for holiday celebrations BLADENBORO, N.C. – With the Christmas season fast approaching, author and playwright April Haley offers a unique way to celebrate Christ’s birth. Her debut book, “A Heavenly Perspective (published by WestBow Press), presents a Christmas play that shifts…

New memoir offers a raw account of losing a child and finding God’s strength in the aftermath KENAI, Alaska – When Richard Gary Hallmark lost his son, Timothy Michael, he admits he did not handle grief well. Years later, when his daughter, Faith Ann, died after complications from heart surgery, Hallmark resolved not to walk…

By Jessica Priest, The Texas Tribune November 17, 2025 The University of Texas at Austin hasn’t said whether it will sign an agreement with the Trump administration that would tie preferential access to federal funding to a series of campus policy changes, even as other universities have rejected the administration’s offer. The proposal, known as…

By Carlos Nogueras Ramos, The Texas Tribune November 17, 2025 Arlington Mayor Jim Ross stood under the June sun and delivered an impassioned speech in front of a crowd awash in rainbows and glitter. “You know Martin Luther King taught us way back in the ‘60s, that there’s only one thing strong enough to overcome…

  Holiday travel volume in Texas rises for the seventh consecutive year, surpassing pre-pandemic levels AAA Texas projects 5.8 million Texans will travel 50 miles or more from home during the Thanksgiving holiday travel period, marking a 1.1% increase over last year and setting a new record for the Lone Star State. This year’s forecast…

By Sneha Dey and Jaden Edison, The Texas Tribune November 15, 2025 Texas superintendents on Saturday said state takeovers of school districts — where democratically elected school boards are ousted and replaced with a state-appointed board of managers — is not a sustainable means to improve student learning.  Two of Texas’ largest school districts, Houston…

By Chaseedaw Giles November 13, 2025 LOS ANGELES — Kris Edwards waited at home with friends for his wife, Erika “Tilly” Edwards, to go out to dinner, but she never made it back to the house they had purchased only four days earlier. Around 9 p.m. on June 29, a hit-and-run driver killed Tilly as…