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

  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

  Tuesday, December 10, 2019 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 because she's sweet and concerned for her first born...

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

  Monday, December 2, 2019 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

  Wednesday, October 9, 2019 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 character-driven lyrics. In Dallas, that resurgence has many young faces.

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

  Tuesday, September 17, 2019 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 Leavenworth's eryngo that poke up alongside creamy milkweed flowers. Yellow and purple wildflowers...

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

  Tuesday, September 10, 2019 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 big grilled cuts of beef and big tannic bottles of cabernet...