This story was originally published by ProPublica, co-published with The Texas Tribune. By Emily Foxhall, The Texas Tribune Joan Connor and David Stearns survived the 2025 floods in Kerr County, Texas, by clinging to the pergola outside their house. Their home flooded again this year. Texas lawmakers repeatedly failed to
This story was originally published by ProPublica. By Joaquin Sapien, ProPublica When ProPublica recently investigated a rape crisis that surged through Syracuse University in the 1980s, we found evidence that the school had taken steps to suppress news coverage of the assaults. The university responded by portraying itself as a
VIRA BROADCASTING Inspiring Ideas, Driving Business Forward The VIRA Briefing Saturday, August 29, 2026 Lead Story Six Months Into the Iran War, Military Families Say the Strain Is Reaching a Breaking Point Six months into the war with Iran, the strain on military families is no longer abstract — it’s
Picture the worst day of your life — now imagine it televised to a few trillion strangers across the galaxy, with a talking cat as your co-star and a “helpful” AI narrator scoring your every scream. That’s the premise Matt Dinniman commits to without blinking in Dungeon Crawler Carl, and
Some novels ask you to suspend disbelief about dragons or spaceships. Theo of Golden asks something harder: that a stranger’s kindness might be real, unearned, and enough to change a town. One spring morning, a quiet, unassuming man named Theo walks into the small Southern city of Golden and takes
WASHINGTON — U.S. officials have revised a dramatic claim made earlier this week about a sweeping Chinese cyber-espionage campaign, now saying that federal agencies identified as victims of the operation were “targeted” rather than definitively “hacked.” The walk-back follows a joint disclosure by the FBI, the National Security Agency and
Few memoirs arrive with as much built-in controversy as “Assata: An Autobiography,” and few authors have lived a life that makes the controversy almost beside the point. First published in 1987 and written from political asylum in Cuba, the book has found a new generation of readers this year following
WASHINGTON — Six months after the United States entered its war with Iran, the families of the troops fighting it say the emotional and financial toll is compounding, with little sign of relief. A Blue Star Families poll of roughly 200 active-duty military households in early March found that 81%
Some readers pull a tarot card for fun. Mikaela Broussard pulls one and sees her own murder. That’s the jolt that opens Jasmine Smith’s debut novel “Death Card,” a dark contemporary fantasy that turns a routine reading at a family occult shop into the first domino in a story about
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