El Dorado High School senior Jay Byrd felt overwhelmed as the cacophony of student chatter, crowded hallways and piercing bright fluorescent lights of her school overcame her senses. The 17-year-old Socorro Independent…
The Border Chronicle – They Grow the Food. So Why Are So Many Going Hungry?
Students at the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley prepare seed trays for a community garden organized through the department of Agroecology in the Rio Grande Valley. (Photo credit: UTRGV Agroecology Lab) Share…
Texas Monthly – Texas attorney general sues Tylenol company over autism claims
This lawsuit comes a month after U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. updated guidance discouraging pregnant women from taking acetaminophen, citing it as a possible cause of autism. Read: Read More
Tech Crunch – Adobe launches AI assistants for Express and Photoshop
Adobe today released new AI assistants Creative Cloud products, Express and Photoshop, that can help users with image creation and editing. Read more: Read More
Tech Crunch – Adobe Firefly Image 5 brings support for layers, will let creators make custom models
Adobe said on Tuesday that it is launching the latest iteration of its image generation model, Firefly Image 5. The company is also adding features to the Firefly website, support for more…
Tech Crunch – PayPal partners with OpenAI to let users pay for their shopping within ChatGPT
Paypal said on Tuesday that it is adopting a protocol in combination with OpenAI’s “Instant Checkout” feature to let users pay for their shopping directly within ChatGPT, starting in 2026. Read more: Read…
El Paso Herald Post – Tuesday Time Warp – Women Convicts Ordered To Clean City Jail
In today’s edition of Tuesday’s Time Warp, we go back to 1911 when El Paso’s city leaders decreed that women convicts serving their sentences at the city jail would now […] The…
Texas Monthly – The federal shutdown will halt November SNAP benefits. Here’s what you need to know.
In Texas, 3.5 million Texans — including 1.7 million children — rely on SNAP, also referred to as food stamps, each month. Read: Read More
Texas Monthly – Why more Tarrant County kids are going to Texas youth prisons than any others
The rising number of youth sent from counties like Tarrant is helping to push the waitlist for beds in youth prisons to near an all-time high, the state says. Read: Read More
Border Report – Immigration crackdown stokes fear and solidarity at a Catholic church in DC
WASHINGTON (AP) — The imposing Shrine of the Sacred Heart, a Catholic church a short drive from the White House, was intended to be a sanctuary for worshippers. Now, its mostly immigrant…