At a Glance
1New Texas Group Proposes $2 Billion Border Security Trust for Big Bend Instead of Wall — A newly formed nonprofit, Let Texans Do Texas, is urging state and federal leaders to redirect border wall money into a …
2Justice Department Starts Telling Counties Where It Plans to Send Election Monitors — Counties in at least five states have been notified, but the department has not said how many jurisdictions it will moni…
3Two Atlanta Exhibitions Stretch the Definition of Sculpture With Beads, Wire and Paper — A show at Hammonds House Museum and another opening Friday at Gallery 100 invite viewers to rethink what sculpture can b…
4Jackson's Samuel Song Wins 4A District 1 Boys Tennis Singles Title — Song beat Glacier Peak's Marcus Xu in straight sets at the 4A district tournament, while Wesco 3A South and North crowne…
5Talarico Casts Senate Race as Anticorruption Fight, Aiming at Paxton and Elon Musk — At a University of Houston event, the Democratic state representative used one of his last Houston-area stops before the…
6Administration Turns to Supreme Court to Revive Big Bend Border Wall Construction — The Trump administration has filed an emergency request asking the justices to lift a federal judge's injunction that ha…
7OpenAI Engineer Charged After Hidden Recording Device Found in Executive Conference Room — Federal prosecutors say a 35-year-old engineer planted an encrypted audio recorder behind a television at OpenAI's San F…
BTS Leader RM's Art Collection Draws Fans to SFMOMA as Hauser & Wirth Opens in Palo Alto
An exhibition built around the BTS star's art collection opens Saturday at SFMOMA, while Swiss gallery Hauser & Wirth debuts in Silicon Valley and designer Nicole Hollis opens her first shop in Dogpatch.

Texas Property Tax Cuts Leave Most Older Homeowners Paying No School Taxes, Raising Questions of Fairness
About 60% of Texas homeowners age 65 and older no longer owe school property taxes after r…Los AngelesCongress Bill Would Gradually Cut Overtime Threshold to 32 Hours a Week
A proposal reintroduced Sept. 8 by Rep. Mark Takano and Sen. Bernie Sanders would lower th…Los AngelesState Regulators Open Inquiry Into Santa Monica Sober Living Home Where Presley Gerber Died
California's Department of Health Care Services is reviewing whether Resolutions Living wa…New YorkAs Climate Disasters Intensify, Funding for Preparedness Programs Is Being Cut
Deep reductions in foreign aid have shut down disaster-monitoring programs in the Himalaya…News →
PhoenixResidents in Tempe and Phoenix Report Strong Gas Odor; Officials Find No Leak
BostonLabouré College to Lay Off 65 Employees as Campus Winds Down Ahead of Curry College Takeover
SeattleMarysville Man Arrested on Murder and Robbery Charges in Fatal Hit-and-Run
Politics →
PhoenixArizona's Grijalva, Elected Seven Weeks Ago, Expects to Be Sworn In as Shutdown Nears Its End
Los AngelesShutdown Enters Second Week With No Clear Path Out as Capitol Tempers Flare
HoustonTexas Comptroller Outlines Plans for Online Marketplace to Run School Voucher Program
Business →
HoustonHouston and Other Gulf, East Coast Ports Face Strike Threat as Dockworkers Battle Automation
BostonOcean State Job Lot Buys North Attleborough Plaza, Will Fill Former Christmas Tree Shops Space
HoustonRideshare Service Staffed by Armed Drivers Eyes Expansion Into Houston
Sports →
San FranciscoBay FC Lands U.S. Midfielder Claire Hutton From Kansas City in $1.1 Million Deal
SeattleGlacier Peak Pulls Away Late to Beat Jackson in Wesco 4A Girls Basketball
SeattleMonroe Clinches Share of Wesco North Title as Area Boys Basketball Teams Close Out January
Culture →
San FranciscoA Rainy-Night Reddit Post Grows Into a 100-Meetup Social Club at a San Francisco Bar
New YorkPerry, the Palo Alto Donkey Who Inspired Shrek's Sidekick, Dies at 30
SeattleFrom Near Ghost Town to Christmas Capital: How Leavenworth Reinvented Itself