President Trump views tariffs as a toll that he alone gets to set for access to U.S. markets. Now he’s charging fees on U.S. companies for the purported privilege of exporting artificial-intelligence chips to China.…

A new school year is getting started. Students are looking up their schedules and packing up their bags. One thing they’ll have to ditch this fall? Their cellphones. Gov. Greg Abbott recently signed into law…

Last Friday, someone anonymously emailed me an article from a far-right American website as supposed proof that I had killed my husband with Covid vaccines — a reboot of the same baseless narrative first pushed…

Texas House Democrats who have gone to other states as a way to break quorum — a tactic to prevent the Legislature from approving new and further gerrymandered congressional districts designed to hand five seats…

Farmers, a solidly Republican constituency, are scratching their heads over what they see as a barrage of friendly fire. Agriculture stands out as acutely vulnerable to President Donald Trump’s avalanche of tariffs, mass deportations and…

When Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell publicly experienced episodes in which he appeared to freeze during news conferences, there were calls for him to vacate his seat. When the late California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein twice…

Dear editor, Concerning the Aug. 4 story about Allen Community College’s new partnership with Kansas City University to fast-track medical careers, from what I read, this fast-tracking will do away with the need for MCAT,…

My family went to Venice, Italy, this summer. We stood in the world’s first ghetto, where guards locked in Jews each night. There was a man sitting at a table with pamphlets in support of…

I was 13 years old on Aug. 9, 1945, when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. We lived less than two miles from ground zero, but by some miracle, I survived.…

Allen County Commissioner David Lee worries “big government” is preventing private practice physicians from setting up office. “We’re forcing doctors to have to come and work in these organizations whether they want to or not.…