From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Critics fear the Trump administration is opening the floodgates for houses of worship to turn into political fundraising ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson was briefed in 1965 that a climate crisis was being caused by burning fossil fuels and was warned that it would create the conditions for intensifying storms and ...

Every President Since Lyndon Johnson Has Recognized the Security Risks of Climate Change. Then Came Trump. Turning a blind eye will only make the United States weaker.

A climate was forming again, as it had at the beginning of his presidency, in which Lyndon Johnson could function at his own best to make the political system function again at its best.

A Travis County resident died after swimming in Lake Lyndon B. Johnson and falling ill from an amebic meningitis infection.

While Texas' popular Lyndon B. Johnson Lake isn't the only place that harbors this this horrifying deadly risk, it's still a reason to avoid swimming there.

President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights advocates who were marching from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery.

President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights advocates who were marching from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery.

When U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson took the stage at Howard University in June of 1965, he had already signed the Civil Rights act into law, and he said he expected to sign the Voting Rights ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS) could be facing a name change thanks to a new campaign. The LBJ Foundation put together a proposal to rename Austin's airport after ...

We saw something similar when Hurricane Harvey dumped as much as 60 inches of rain on parts of Texas in 2017 and when Hurricane Helene devastated North Carolina last year—and co ...