From cowboy boots to corridos, the candidates for U.S. Senate are competing to prove their Texas bona fides.

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Mr. Talarico, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Texas, showed up at a music festival, saying he had been at home with “a nasty case of the flu.”

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When the long-running TV franchise came to Murphy, Texas, in 2006, a man ended up dead. A new film, “Primetime,” looks back on what happened.

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An 81-year-old billionaire has a vision for preserving a tiny West Texas mining town, even as other forces are reshaping the land around it.

Ella Langley’s smash has become an anthem in Austin, a singalong in Nashville and a case study in how the Texas brand travels.

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Artificial Intelligence is helping people write corridos within hours, accelerating a century-old tradition of memorializing tragedy through song.