Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Challenge to Trump's Border Asylum Ban

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Hulu Sets Jan. 13, 2027, Premiere for The Spot With Claire Danes and Ewan McGregor

Hulu will premiere The Spot, starring Claire Danes and Ewan McGregor, on Jan. 13, 2027. Deadline reported the Thursday announcement and first-look photos.

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Rosalía Wins Album and Song of the Year at the Latin Grammys

Rosalía won Album of the Year and Song of the Year at Thursday's Latin Grammy Awards in Las Vegas, according to the official winners list and Variety.

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Politics & Government

Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Challenge to Trump's Border Asylum Ban

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to review Trump's suspension of asylum at the southern border. Lower courts struck the policy down; it remains in effect.

A wide downtown Taylor street with historic brick buildings, traffic signals, and a 2nd Street sign under a partly cloudy sky

Taylor Approves Water Line Deal and Park Lights, Tables Comment Rule

The Angelina County Courthouse in Lufkin, Texas, with a clock face and the words Angelina County on the facade

Hudson Repeals Alcohol Ordinance to Comply With State Law

The Stephen F. Austin State Office Building in Austin, Texas

Huffines Will Require E-Verify on Future Grants the Comptroller's Office Administers

Entertainment

Hulu Sets Jan. 13, 2027, Premiere for The Spot With Claire Danes and Ewan McGregor

Hulu will premiere The Spot, starring Claire Danes and Ewan McGregor, on Jan. 13, 2027. Deadline reported the Thursday announcement and first-look photos.

Rosalía Wins Album and Song of the Year at the Latin Grammys

Rosalía won Album of the Year and Song of the Year at Thursday's Latin Grammy Awards in Las Vegas, according to the official winners list and Variety.

Outdoors

Cattle on the Birdwell Clark Ranch in Henrietta, Texas

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Texas A&M Researchers Report Early Success Sterilizing Screwworm Flies With Electron Beams

Tall pines and open understory in W. Goodrich Jones State Forest near Conroe, Texas.

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The Forest Everyone Drives Past on FM 1488 Is Turning 100

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Bring a Plastic Bottle, Get Free Admission at Two Houston-Area Nature Centers This Weekend

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Faith

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Pope Leo XIV Meets Abuse Survivors in Peru and Calls for Amends
Pope Leo XIV met six abuse survivors in Lima and told Peru's bishops the Church must answer clergy abuse with truth, justice, and making amends.
Yesterday
Pope Leo XIV Tells Peru He Is Returning to His Homeland
Pope Leo XIV arrived in Peru and told authorities in Lima that, with gratitude, he is also returning to his homeland. Local authorities estimated a crowd of about three million.
Yesterday
U.S. Bishops Urge Senate to Extend Haiti's Temporary Protected Status
In a Nov. 10 letter, two USCCB chairmen asked the Senate to pass S. 4814, citing violence in Haiti and weekly deportation flights. The letter is a request, not a new law.
Yesterday
Pope Leo XIV Calls for Reconciliation at Final Argentina Mass in Luján
At the Basilica of Our Lady of Luján, Pope Leo XIV urged Argentines to confess faults, take Scripture as a guide, and go on mission, then left for Peru.
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Pope Leo XIV Urges Argentines to Pursue Holiness and Reject Idols
Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass in Córdoba before about 650,000 people, then told a Buenos Aires vigil of about one million to reject modern idols and become saints.

Community

The Manuel Guerra residence and store in Roma, Texas: a two-story corner building of painted brick in pale pink and white, with an iron-railed balcony wrapping the upper floor on curved iron brackets, the name M. Guerra lettered above the corner, tall wooden double doors on the ground floor reached by broad concrete steps, a one-story brick wing at left, and at right, down a paved street lined with lamp posts, a white church steeple against a blue sky

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Roma, Texas (ZIP 78584) began as ranch land of Mier, granted in 1767 under José de Escandón, and became the head of steamboat travel on the Rio Grande. The Handbook says it was renamed Roma in 1848; a federal landmark study says Stephen F. Austin already called it Roma in 1823.

The mid-century Panola County Courthouse in Carthage, a light brick building with green front steps and a tall flagpole, photographed in 2017

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Carthage: A Panola County Seat Built at the County's Center

The Handbook of Texas traces Carthage from an 1848 county-seat donation of 100 acres at Panola County’s center to a railroad and oil town that moved its courthouse off the old square in the 1950s.

The modern Nolan County Courthouse in Sweetwater, a tan stone building with a dark central entrance marked Nolan County Courthouse, photographed in 2015

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Sweetwater: The Nolan County Seat Named for Its Water

The Handbook of Texas traces Sweetwater from a Kiowa watering place and the 1881 Nolan County seat to a railroad town that trained Women’s Airforce Service Pilots in 1943.

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