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The Trump administration recently reinstated the practice of detaining immigrant adults and children together. Two detention facilities in South Texas are at the center of that controversial decision.

Texas counties saw a massive influx of residents from July 2023 to 2024, according to newly released data from the U.S.

Public health experts say Texas needs better messaging on vaccinations and quarantining and more people conducting contact ...

The US Census Bureau recently released information regarding population patterns in local areas across the country for the July 1, 2023 through July 1, 2024 period. As might be expected, Texas fares ...

Economist M. Ray Perryman looks at new population patten information from the US Census Bureau. He says Texas is in a highly ...

In this Journal Club, Minoli Perera reflects on a 2005 sequencing study by Cohen et al., who discovered two common loss-of-function mutations with large effects on plasma cholesterol levels thanks ...

In six Texas districts that used at-large voting systems, ideologically driven conservatives successfully helped elect school ...

So far, 2025 is the fourth-worst year for measles in the U.S. since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000.

But it fears for its future The US Christian population has declined for years ... many adherents or sympathizers worked in ...