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In the race to build a more competitive energy economy, carbon capture and storage is no longer a theory — it’s a race. And ...

The plan would shift voters from safely red districts into blue ones. Members of the state’s Republican delegation aren’t ...

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The U.S. military presence along the Texas-Mexico border isn’t going away anytime soon. In fact, it may expand.

Police arrested more than 20 people, mostly on curfew violations, on the first night of restrictions in downtown Los Angeles and used crowd-control projectiles to break up hundreds of protesters ...

The Texas Railroad Commission (RRC) issued two new oil well drilling permits in Burleson County in April. The RRC report is for newly approved permits in the county, not for drill sites which were ...