Democrat Gina Hinojosa defeated incumbent Republican Greg Abbott on Tuesday to become Texas’s first Democratic governor since 1995. Hinojosa’s upset victory cut short Abbott’s chances of becoming the longest-serving Texas governor.
Democrat James Talarico added to the “blue wave” by defeating Republican Ken Paxton, becoming the first Democratic Texas senator in 30 years.
Beyond the many festivities of Homecoming, Dinner with the Livingstones gives students the opportunity to take a break from their busy schedules and recharge with their peers and university leadership.
Apart from a slight margin in the Senate race, election results from McLennan County show a largely Republican voting pattern. Despite this, Democrats in the Waco community gathered Tuesday night for a watch party to follow the midterm elections.
As Texas voters decide a closely watched U.S. Senate race between Ken Paxton and James Talarico, Baylor students used an on-campus polling location to make their voices heard.
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Released in September, “Josie: A True Story of Race, Rescue and Resilience” is based on a true story close to Todd Smith’s own life. It follows the life of a black woman named Josie, who was taken in by Smith’s great-grandparents after she was abandoned at birth in the small town of D’Lo, Mississippi, in 1906.
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The Bears and Cougars battled it out on Monday night in a rematch of their regular season closing game, giving the Bears a 1-0 win over Houston
The Big 12 announced Monday that it will no longer hold its football conference championship game after 2026, with the College Football Playoff expanding from 12 teams to 24 starting next year.
Football has been at the center of homecoming since 1909, but Baylor Athletics made the most of the weekend all around, winning six games in five sports.
Sophomore outside hitter Ksenia Rakhmanchik lit up Kansas State Sunday afternoon, recording the most kills in a Big 12 match this season with 32.
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ARTS & LIFE
The local Bitty and Beau’s Coffee Shop is closing, but a new coffee shop will take its place.
If you have no time for anything else, just take 20 minutes today and sit outdoors. If you have a porch or a balcony at home, sit there. If you do not, find a bench on campus and sit there for a bit before you head home. Your mind, mood and lungs will thank you.
The discourse around the new “Chronicles of Narnia” movie from director Greta Gerwig shows that Christians are wrongfully up in arms over something that is creative and meant to be unique
Kylie Jenner’s appearance on the Victoria’s Secret runway raised questions about celebrity influence, experience in the modeling industry and the values that have been expected when wearing something as significant and iconic as the fantasy bra.
The accessibility of violence, intentional and unintentional alike, should make us wonder: are Americans supposed to revel in bloodshed, let alone see it at this scale? Better yet, how many times have we heard stories where the violence doesn’t end with the initial crime?
Narcan should be carried everywhere. There should also be a law to have one ready at every public social gathering place, including bars, clubs, sit-down restaurants, all concerts big and small and even house parties.
The way Marianne Sheridan and Connell Waldron in Sally Rooney’s “Normal People” weave in and out of each other’s lives during their college years, as they each struggle through the growing pains of life, encapsulates beautifully how it feels to transition into adulthood.
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