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  Growing Pains: Stress Is Killing Farmers, But These Texans Keep Plowing Ahead

  Meredith Lawrence | January 21 at 4 a.m.

  Farmers across the country are struggling to make ends meet. In Texas, the stress weighs on farmers who sometimes struggle to figure out how to scrape together the next bill payment.

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  Discworld Is Real! Dive into Flat Earth Culture at their Global, Sorry, International Conference

  Danny Gallagher | December 10 at 4 a.m.

  "Be nice." That's the text message my mom always sends when I'm heading into a situation that's controversial or ridiculous. A Twilight film marathon, a Logan Paul concert, even Fyre Festival II — it doesn't matter. She'll still send the text...

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  Red Tape, Government Mistakes and an Endless Wait: One Man’s Struggle to Gain U.S. Asylum

  Meredith Lawrence | December 2 at 4 a.m.

  One Texas man's long trip through the U.S. immigration system.

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  Willie, Waylon and Them: North Texas Songwriters Put the Story Back in Country

  Meredith Lawrence | October 9 at 4 a.m.

  Across the nation, country music with a more classic sound, often labeled “Americana,” is making a comeback. Americana has come to describe a rising class of country musicians with an unornamented western sound and a penchant for storytelling and...

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  Can Raising Cattle Be Environmentally Friendly? These Texas Ranchers Say Yes.

  Meredith Lawrence | September 17 at 4 a.m.

  Thigh-high grasses and plant stalks thwack the sides of the all-terrain buggy as Meredith Ellis maneuvers it down a faint double track through a dense pasture. Grasshoppers launch out of the way, whirring past bright purple, thistle-like...

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  The Dallas Steakhouse Needs to Join the 21st Century. But Does It Want To?

  Brian Reinhart | September 10 at 4 a.m.

  Dallas has a growing bounty of diverse, interesting places to eat, but the iconic Dallas restaurant is an institution that hasn’t changed much in the last 30 years: the steakhouse. In almost every affluent neighborhood in town, steakhouses serve...