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Details about high-ranking Republicans and the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol continue to emerge.

Pedro Quezada sent $57 million of his $338 million lottery winnings to the Dominican Republic. It's a high-profile example of an everyday phenomenon where immigrants to the U.S. send billions back to their home country.

The recent settlement between New York's attorney general and Sony exposed schemes to boost airplay for certain artists. But the practice of payola has persisted from the days of Tin Pan Alley's "song pluggers."

For some musicians good song writing is elementary. For others it's elementary school. A CD called Kid Pan Alley collects tunes created in classrooms around the country and recorded by top Nashville artists, including Amy Grant.

"When the people get my music, people can get my soul, too," says Cuban singer Dayme Arocena. She's one of many musicians benefiting from the changing relationship between the United States and Cuba.

Fred Lewis, the Director of Texans Together, says the real challenge is getting people involved more often on a local level, so they can see concrete…

Texas Matters: Wendy Davis will finally announce her decision on the governor's race, which will finally end the speculating and kick the 2014 election…

This post was updated on Monday, June 29, at 6:05 p.m. Dennis Bonnen, a conservative Republican and Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, is…

We meet the Argentinian composer Alberto Williams, whose earliest music sounded more like his teacher, Cesar Franck, than of Argentina. However, in 1890 Williams shifted his attention to the forms, melodies and rhythms of Argentine folk music. Carlos Franzetti returns to speak of that most Incan of wind instruments, the quena, and also introduces us to Alberto Ginastera's “Cantata para America Magica,” an amalgam of pre-Columbian texts and rituals, combined with indigenous mythology, a prime example of the modern meeting the ancient, resulting in something completely new.

When the governor called the Texas Legislature into special session after July's historic floods, he topped his priority list with passing bills to better prepare the state for future natural disasters. Here's a look at six new measures lawmakers just passed.