The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation approved the Protect College Sports Act of 2026 on June 18. As the act awaits Senate approval, universities and conferences have openly...
Former Vice President Mike Pence stopped in Austin on Wednesday to discuss his recent book and political experience at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library.
Pence served as vice president during...
Clarence Thomas, associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, spoke at the Hogg Memorial Auditorium on Wednesday to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence’s signing.
In...
The Trump administration proposed sweeping changes to policies regarding college athletes’ Name, Image and Likeness in an April 3 executive order. The order attempts to limit how much athletes can be...
The Department of Education issued guidance to borrowers enrolled in the Saving on a Valuable Education plan that the program will end, and they need to exit it, according to a March 27 news release.
Launched...
Abbey Shultz, Senior News Reporter
• April 6, 2026
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program implemented changes on April 1 that bar recipients from using benefits to purchase sugary foods and drinks.
Some of the banned items include candy bars,...
A new voter eligibility bill that aims to prevent undocumented immigrants from voting could affect University students. The bill is currently stalled in the Senate, which began a marathon debate on the...
The U.S. Department of Education will transfer responsibility for collecting defaulted federal student loan debt to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, according to a March 19 Department of Education...
The Law School Admissions Council announced Feb. 11 that, starting in August, it will remove the remote option for students to take the Law School Admission Test, the required entrance exam for law school....
The Department of Education launched an investigation into Tufts University to determine if a study on student political engagement, which UT Austin participates in, involves “illegally sharing” students’...
Anjum Alam, Senior News Reporter
• February 13, 2026
As he waited with his family for their passports to be stamped after arriving in the United States in September, a UT professor said he felt a new fear, one he had not felt in the many times he traveled...
After two American citizens died last month during encounters with federal immigration officers in Minnesota, a group of district attorneys formed a coalition on Jan. 28 to prosecute federal officers who...
