Thinking About Selling Homemade Food in Texas? Know the Rules First Selling homemade food in Texas falls under one of the state's fastest-growing small business laws. The Texas Cottage Food Law gives home cooks a legal path into business while drawing firm boundaries around products carrying greater food safety risks. Lawmakers broaden those opportunities in 2025, yet meat, poultry, seafood, raw milk, and several other products remain outside the law. Confusion follows when l

Richard "Beebo" Russell's Final Flight At 2:36 p.m. on August 10, 2018, Richard "Beebo" Russell clocked in for another shift at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Surveillance cameras captured the 28-year-old Horizon Air ground service agent flashing his employee badge at the employee security checkpoint before disappearing into the controlled side of the airport. He wore a black T-shirt printed with the words, The Sky's No Limit. At that moment, nothing separated Russell

The Mexican Immigrant Who Became One of America's Most Decorated Soldiers Three Allied nations pinned their highest military decorations onto the chest of a young Mexican immigrant while General John J. Pershing looked on. France honored him. Italy honored him. The United States honored him. Marcelino Serna became one of the most decorated American soldiers of World War I after volunteering to fight for a country that did not require his service. One distinction remained abse

La Casa de los Famosos México Every season of La Casa de los Famosos México begins with introductions. This year, the audience needed them more than the contestants did. The first challenge of the season involved identifying the cast without opening Wikipedia. This year's cast includes Ernesto Laguardia, Cynthia Klitbo, Yahir, Mariana Ochoa, Karina Torres, Ximena Herrera, Aldo Rendón, Moisés Peñaloza, Flor Vigna, Arantza Ruiz, Yanet García, Luis Chaparro, Fede Vigevani, Brian

The Feds Found a New Kind of Terrorist A government analyst in Philadelphia flagged a Facebook meme joking about sabotaging AI data centers as a potential domestic terrorism concern. According to Wired, internal government records show federal analysts have begun tracking what they describe as "anti-technology violent extremism." The paper trail begins with NSPM-7. President Donald Trump signed the memorandum in September, weeks after Charlie Kirk's assassination, under the t

Texas voters used to have a shortcut. Checking one box locked in the whole party's slate, and you never had to read another name on the ballot. It was fast, easy and convenient. Republicans killed that shortcut in 2017, during Donald Trump's first term as president. House Bill 25 was quietly passed by the Republican-controlled legislature that year. Governor Greg Abbott signed it without the fanfare he usually reserves for culture-war victories. The straight-ticket option dis

How a Royal Affair Changed the Course of French Politics Louis XV inherited a crown before he reached adulthood. At fifteen, he married twenty-two-year-old Maria Leszczyńska in 1725. The marriage began with genuine warmth. The young king remained faithful through the early years, and the royal couple produced children at a staggering pace. Between 1727 and 1737, the queen endured ten pregnancies, including the birth of the Dauphin and several daughters. Court celebrations acc

Tourists arrive on Hollywood Boulevard looking for celebrities, and the first place they head is the yellow brick road of stars stretching down the sidewalk. The first stop is usually Marilyn Monroe's star at 6774 Hollywood Blvd, the most visited on the Walk. James Dean, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, Walt Disney, and Muhammad Ali come next. But in Hollywood, foot traffic drawn by notoriety and vandalism counts as 'popular' by the same metric. Few pieces of real estate in Am

My son turned 24 today, and for the first time in a long time, I did not celebrate his birthday without him. I need you to understand what a strange sentence that is for me to type. There was a time when Vicente came to his own birthday parties. SpongeBob cake, a piñata, a kid who hadn't yet been handed the keys to his own life and didn't know he could refuse. Vicente showed up because showing up was still someone else's decision. He didn't know he had a choice. Then he got o

Hazte para acá! Grab your cafecito, because this chisme es puro compadrismo. So Televisa's new melodrama, "Tierra de Amor y Coraje," hasn't even premiered yet and it's already got half of Mexico's entertainment internet in a chancla-throwing contest. The show, produced by José Alberto "El Güero" Castro, is a remake of a 1970s Brazilian telenovela about three ranching brothers who fall for the daughter of their family's enemy. Cowboys, cattle, Arizona desert, forbidden love. S

The Trump administration filed its first application with the Alien Terrorist Removal Court on July 15. Congress created this tribunal in 1996 and no administration used it until now. The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act established the court and authorizes the chief justice to appoint five district judges from five different circuits to decide whether noncitizens accused of terrorism-related activity should be removed from the country. The mechanism sat untouche

Forget whatever diarrhea cyclosporiasis is producing. America faces a more dire epidemic right now, and this one spreads through Instagram grids instead of contaminated produce: the ChatGPT flyer. Scroll through any small-business social media page in July 2026 and the symptoms show up within seconds. The font leans slightly, brushed across the top like a swoosh pulled from a font pack nobody requested. Little rounded boxes flank the text, each holding a tiny icon of a fork,

A post on Threads has gone viral: immigration is paperwork law, and nobody should die over paperwork. No caveats can soften that sentence, and none are needed. It sets a moral floor that predates any statute. The floor has needed restating all year, in different states, under different agencies. An ICE officer fatally shot a man on Canal Street in a predominantly Latino neighborhood of Houston in July, prompting LULAC to demand release of all body cam, dash cam, and bystander

Lindsey Graham died Saturday night, hours after flying back from Kyiv, and South Carolina's junior senator forever will be remembered for whichever version of himself made the deeper dent. There were two. Only one mattered by the time the aortic dissection took him.

Taylor Swift wrote "The Man" specifically to imagine how differently the world would treat her ambition if she moved through it as a man instead of a woman. Margaret Atwood built an entire novel, The Handmaid's Tale, around the same mechanics, tracing a patriarchal state that controls women's bodies through law and religious authority, and that novel has since generated a television adaptation running for six seasons. Greta Gerwig took a different approach with Barbie, using

In 2007, the Ministry of Education slipped a new word into the official Chinese lexicon, sheng nu, meaning leftover women, borrowing a character from the vocabulary of expired food. Officials wanted earlier marriages. They got a national vocabulary problem instead. China's one-child policy left the country with roughly 30 million more men than women of marriage age. Among the specific cohort born during the one-child-policy years, Dongguan shows the widest gap in the country,

McConnell Still Chairs the Rules Committee From His Hospital Bed Mitch McConnell has been well enough to discuss Iran, Ukraine, national security, and a Supreme Court ruling on campaign spending from his hospital bed. He has not been well enough to do it in person, on video, or in front of anyone outside his own staff and a handful of allies who have relayed the conversations secondhand. The Kentucky Republican, 84, entered the hospital on the morning of June 14. His office h

Amazon introduced the Echo speaker, and the voice behind it, Alexa, on November 6, 2014, then opened the device to the public the following July. A little more than a decade later, roughly one in four Americans owns one, and a good share of those households own two or three. Kids in these homes grow up talking to Alexa the way they talk to a sibling, tossing out orders and insults without much thought. A child who feels close to the family's Alexa grows more demanding toward

Ashley stood in a Walmart parking lot in Nebraska and cried into her phone camera. She had been making cake pops for a couple of weeks. A full-time job kept her days busy, so the baking happened on the side, the kind of hobby that turns into a small business one Fruity Pebbles cake pop at a time. Then a bigger creator, Kaity of Cakes by Kaity, accused her of stealing a recipe and threatened legal action. "She's fucking made a whole video about me threatening to sue me," Ashle

eorge Washington never knelt in the snow at Valley Forge with his cocked hat resting beside him and a shaft of light breaking through the trees. Historians who have spent careers on the man say so plainly. Thomas Tweed, professor emeritus at Notre Dame, has traced the image to a story invented by Mason Locke Weems, the same early biographer who gave America the cherry tree. Weems never witnessed anything himself. He wrote up an account from a secondhand source, a Quaker named