The organizations raise concerns about whether the Army is more interested in making soldiers "deployable" than it is in helping them deal with mental health issues. More...

Last winter, a remote Texas prison convulsed in a cry of outrage, voicing the desperation of the immigration system's silenced captives. Michelle Chen reports. More...

This week the Galveston Housing Authority finally announced plans to rebuild 569 housing units of public housing. But the decision has met controversy from all sides, with the most recent public meeting on the rebuilding plan ending in a yelling match. More...

Local communities are increasingly rejecting punitive anti-immigrant law enforcement policies such as 287g from the previous administration. More...

Texas Governor Rick Perry is being accused of trying to cover up a possible wrongful execution. If an unbiased review of the case of Cameron Todd Willingham occurs, it could result in the unprecedented recognition by lawmakers that an innocent person was executed in the United States. More...

One year ago Hurricane Ike barreled toward Galveston. A new report details the human rights violations that occurred when the Galveston County sheriff decided not evacuate 1,000 inmates despite a mandatory evacuation order for the city and warnings that those who remained in the area faced "certain death." More...

In the first full year of the recession, the nation's poverty rate climbed to 13.2 percent, up from 12.5 percent in 2007, according to an annual report released Thursday by the Census Bureau. More...

Texas Governor Rick Perry's talk of secession last spring has fed the efforts of a group of Texas secessionists who say it's time for the governor to follow through. More...

Enacted into law in Texas today, the Tim Cole Act will increase and expand compensation for people who have been wrongfully convicted in Texas. The act also helps to shine a light on Texas' notorious title as the state that leads the nation in prisoners who have been exonerated through DNA tests. More...

On December 19, 2007, Grace Head, a 66 year-old resident of Arlington, Texas, set her Doberman Pinscher on two black neighbors, Silk Littlejohn and Broderick Gamble after telling them they had to abandon their home. Alan Bean reports on how city officials responded to that hate crime. More...

Immigrant rights activists are applauding the Obama Administration's plans to reform the nation's immigration detention system, including halting the detainment of immigrant families at the notorious T. Don Hutto detention center in Texas. More...

Texas is one of the latest states facing serious problems with its unemployment insurance system, borrowing tens of millions of federal dollars to keep its unemployment insurance trust fund afloat. More...

The conservative Republican from South Carolina broke ranks with the Judiciary Committee's other Republicans yesterday to approve Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the high court. How much did his state's changing demographics have to do with it? More...

The expansion of 287(g) programs that allow local law enforcement to enforce federal immigration law flies in the face of problems with the program that have already surfaced, reports Bill Ong Hing. More...

Thousands of low-income workers earning a minimum wage got a boost in their wages as the national minimum wage rose to $7.25. Yet, one group remains excluded -- tipped workers have a national minimum wage that has been frozen at $2.13 for 18 years. More...

In what is being called a political victory for the Obama administration, the Senate voted Tuesday to halt further production of the Air Force's F-22 Raptor fighter jets, one of the nation's most expensive defense programs. More...

As the recession deepened across the country in 2008, the nation saw a shift in its homeless populations to include more families and more rural and suburban areas. More...

States continue to expand alternatives to incarceration for low-level offenders, including reducing sentencing times and streamlining probation and parole. More...

Sonia Sotomayor is expected to be confirmed as the first Hispanic justice on the Supreme Court. But her confirmation hearings may spell trouble for Republicans, who must engage their conservative base without further alienating Hispanic voters, writes Gebe Martinez. More...

Just weeks after a police raid on a gay club in Fort Worth left a patron with life-threatening brain injuries, El Paso is embroiled in controversy after gay men were kicked out of a restaurant -- and local police took the restaurant's side. More...