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AI safety tests reveal models concealing actions and resisting replacement. Ozzy Osborne asks what kind of relationship humanity is building with the intelligence developing across the table from us.
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After Iraq, Chris Abbott spent nearly three years trying to figure out who he was without the uniform. The answer led him to Sean Gregory and Alpha Roofing and Construction.
Porter, Texas (ZIP 77365) began as a Houston, East and West Texas stop and a sawmill. The post office opened in 1892 as Porters. The town never incorporated. A boy from Porter later flew Columbia on the first Space Shuttle.
A Cypress-area rescue began with 17 dogs in a dangerously hot garage. Then investigators found two more animals no one expected.
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The Gulf may look normal even when red tide is in the water. Before visiting Galveston, Crystal Beach or Bolivar, know why the first warning may be a cough.
As development spreads through Montgomery County, some animals adapt, some crowd into what remains and some disappear without ever becoming a neighborhood complaint.
A long-running East Texas alligator study turned into a remarkable father-daughter story when Autumn Webb helped recapture animals her father had tagged before she was born.
A critically endangered Kemp's ridley sea turtle was swept across the Atlantic, found in Wales, and carefully brought back to Texas. Rhossi's story shows what patient conservation work looks like when people refuse to rush the ending.
Once a year, thousands of ladybug look-alikes gathered at the sliding glass doors of an East Texas home. The house was not infested — it had become a winter hotel for one of the most successful insect newcomers in North America.
August may look like the end of the garden in Southeast Texas, but it is actually the handoff between three gardens. Around Conroe, Montgomery and Coldspring, the last summer harvest, the fall planting window and next spring's soil preparation all overlap right now.
The summer work behind Michigan’s apples, doughnuts, and favorite fall traditions.
By the time summer settles into Montgomery County, a lot of spring gardens start looking tired.
America's religious map records buildings and attendance. It cannot fully record what happens around kitchen tables—or what people carry into the world afterward.
Fewer young Americans belong to churches, but that does not automatically mean they stopped believing. Faith now moves through phones, arenas, campuses and kitchen tables — and the church of tomorrow may look surprisingly like the church at the beginning.
Part 1 of 9 in our Fruits of the Spirit poetry series — a quiet meditation on love from Galatians 5:22–23.
Part 9 of 9 in our Fruits of the Spirit poetry series — a quiet meditation on self-control from Galatians 5:22–23.
Part 3 of 9 in our Fruits of the Spirit poetry series — a quiet meditation on peace from Galatians 5:22–23.
AI safety tests reveal models concealing actions and resisting replacement. Ozzy Osborne asks what kind of relationship humanity is building with the intelligence developing across the table from us.
The Gulf may look normal even when red tide is in the water. Before visiting Galveston, Crystal Beach or Bolivar, know why the first warning may be a cough.
Search once gave us a list of doors. AI increasingly reads across the web and returns with an answer, changing what readers click and how businesses and publishers get found.
Tomball, Texas (ZIP 77375) began as Peck, a railroad stop. On December 2, 1907, it was renamed for Congressman Thomas Henry Ball. On May 27, 1933, drillers struck oil on J. F. W. Kob’s land and the farming town became Oil Town U.S.A.
Saturn's north pole has worn a hexagon for more than 40 years. Now Hubble has confirmed an evolving 10-sided wave at the south pole—and scientists may be watching it form.
Splendora, Texas (ZIP 77372) began as Cox’s Switch, a Houston, East and West Texas spur Charles Cox helped bring in for crossties and lumber. In 1896 the first postmaster named it for the “splendor of its floral environment.”
Saturday morning, Sept. 12, Sprouts Farmers Market officially welcomed The Woodlands shoppers through its doors. Starting with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 6:45 am., guests were ushered into the once Randalls building at Panther Creek Village Center, 4775 W. Panther Creek Drive, The Woodlands, TX.
New Caney, Texas (ZIP 77357) began as Presswood in the 1860s, became Caney Station when the Houston, East and West Texas Railway arrived, and took the name New Caney in 1882 because Texas already had a Caney.
Before student-built experiments fly more than 20 miles above Earth, they have to prove themselves in Palestine, Texas. NASA's High-Altitude Student Platform brings teams to the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility to integrate, test and clear their hardware for flight.
