Here are the stories on Texas Standard for Wednesday, July 22, 2026. Check back later today for updated story links and audio. Trump moves to reopen trade talks with Canada and Mexico President Donald ...

The voice of Johnny Cash filled Howdy’s Bar and Chill in Kerrville Thursday night as friends danced and laughed over drinks. Behind the bar, owners Lorena Guillén and Bob Canales poured beers and ...

A Kerrville man was killed early Thursday morning after flood waters swept away his home, his family confirmed. John Mark Steward was inside his home when it was overtaken by water Thursday, his wife ...

The Texas Standard is excited to share the Beachchombing Report from Jace Tunnell, Director of Community Engagement for the Harte Research Institute at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. The series ...

Austin-based Apptronik makes robots that it hopes businesses will use in manufacturing, on the warehouse floor and in other places where human arms and legs are an asset. But robots, the company says, ...

Enrollment in public virtual schools has exploded over the past decade, no doubt accelerated by the pandemic and families looking for alternatives to traditional classrooms. But this month, one of the ...

Unlike most of the 25 other copies of the Declaration of Independence, with well-maintained pedigrees and records down to the minute, the only copy in Texas embarked on a centuries-long odyssey to ...

The Texas Supreme Court dismissed a challenge over beach closures near SpaceX’s Boca Chica launch site, ruling the plaintiffs lacked standing rather than deciding the broader constitutional issues at ...

Juneteenth marks the moment Union troops arrived in Galveston to enforce emancipation, freeing a quarter million enslaved people in Texas in 1865. The Standard’s Sean Saldana reports on how the city ...

Agriculture officials in Mexico are currently dealing with a horde of flesh-eating parasites. The New World screwworm is a fly whose larvae burrow into the skin of animals like cattle, sheep and deer ...

If you plan on taking a robot along with you on your next flight, you’re out of luck if Southwest is your airline. A new policy bans humanoid or animal-like robots from Southwest planes. Tech expert ...

As autonomous vehicles, sometimes called robotaxis, proliferate in major Texas cities, local officials and safety experts are expressing concern about traffic safety. But robotaxi operators continue ...