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East Texas native Kacey Musgraves announces new album, ‘Middle of Nowhere’

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3 months ago

March 11, 2026

East Texas native Kacey Musgraves announces new album, ‘Middle of Nowhere’

East Texas native Kacey Musgraves on Wednesday announced a May 1 release date for her seventh studio album, Middle of Nowhere. And the country-pop singer released the album’s first single, “Dry Spell,” along with an accompanying video.

The saucy track bemoans a 335-day dry spell since her last romantic encounter, with double entendres aplenty. Musgraves and Hannah Lux Davis co-directed the song’s cheeky video, which is set in a grocery store and is ripe with fruit-touching and wistful stares.

Kacey Musgraves’ new album, “Middle of Nowhere,” is due out May 1.

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Musgraves was born in Sulphur Springs and raised in Golden, about 80 miles east of Dallas. She moved to Nashville in 2008.

The eight-time Grammy Award-winner had some help on Middle of Nowhere, which features guest appearances by Willie Nelson, Miranda Lambert, Billy Strings and Gregory Alan Isakov.

Musgraves, who wrapped up her global “Deeper Well World Tour” in December, has emerged as one of the biggest stars in country music over the last decade-plus. Her debut album, 2013’s Same Trailer Different Park, won the Grammy for best country album, and she has topped the country charts multiple times since while earning critical acclaim.

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NASA lays out its moon base plans with Texas ties to make it happen

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May 26, 2026

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NASA lays out its moon base plans with Texas ties to make it happen

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — NASA laid out its moon base plans, and the operation has Texas ties beyond the Johnson Space Center.

Only weeks have passed since NASA sent humans further in space than ever before. While the agency achieved something new, on Tuesday afternoon, NASA said it’s only the beginning.

The agency said a moon base is coming. A place where astronauts will explore, perform experiments, and provide data to get to Mars.

Although NASA has sent humans before, NASA’s moon base program manager, Carlos Garcia-Galan, said this moon base mission is different.

“Eventually, when we matched the assets, habitat modules with the logistics and all the things to move the logistics around,” Garcia-Galan explained. “Then we’ll be able to say, we’re permanently here, and we’re not giving it up.”

The plan, NASA said, is to build a moon base in three phases over 75 launches over the next six years. The first steps, officials said, will be by the end of the year when they start to send supplies to the moon, ahead of astronaut lunar missions scheduled for 2028.

Rice University physics and astronomy professor Patricia Reiff said it’s ambitious but doable. “I think this was a very sensible way to proceed,” Reiff said.

NASA isn’t doing it alone. The agency said it’s spending hundreds of millions of dollars with private companies to build the base.

On Tuesday, it announced that Firefly Aerospace, based in Austin, will deliver drones to the moon. Axiom Space, based in Houston, said it’ll work with the company selected to build the new lunar rovers.

“I think it’s fantastic news because even the ones not based in Houston will be having people here in Houston to work closely with the Johnson Space Center,” Reiff explained.

A moon base, NASA said, is ready to start just weeks after completing Artemis, not just for its own exploration, but what could one day benefit us on Earth.

“We go for the technology we will pioneer to get there,” NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said. “The science and all that we will learn that’ll make life better here on earth. To advance humankind on this great adventure.”

While NASA plans to send supplies to the moon starting later this year, astronauts won’t be with it. NASA said it plans to launch astronauts into space next year to test its lunar landers.

Then, in two years, it says it plans to start sending humans back to the moon.

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Texas oil companies push to fend off far-right bid for regulatory post

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16 hours ago

May 26, 2026

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Texas oil companies push to fend off far-right bid for regulatory post

Top Texas Republicans and some of the state’s biggest oil and gas producers closed ranks in recent weeks to boost an incumbent energy regulator trying to knock off a hard-right challenger.

Jim Wright, who is seeking a second term on the Railroad Commission of Texas, won 32 percent of the vote in a five-way race in the Republican primary in March.

Bo French, who is known for social media posts disparaging immigrants and Muslims, finished with just over 31 percent.

The difference was less than 7,000 votes. The results set off alarm bells — and oil companies opened their checkbooks during the runoff campaign as politicians warned that the seat could fall into Democratic hands if French won the Republican primary.

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No injuries reported after vessel catches fire near Texas City Dike, Coast Guard officials say

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1 day ago

May 25, 2026

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No injuries reported after vessel catches fire near Texas City Dike, Coast Guard officials say

Monday, May 25, 2026 10:18PM

TEXAS CITY, Texas (KTRK) — An investigation is underway after a vessel caught fire near the Texas City Dike on Tuesday afternoon, according to Coast Guard officials.

The incident happened at 1:15 p.m., when a 38-foot recreational vessel caught fire, Coast Guard officials said. At 2:15 p.m., a good Samaritan took on the 11 people aboard the vessel, including five adults and six children, Coast Guard officials added.

Authorities said the 11 people, who were transferred to a 45-foot Response Boat Medium from Coast Guard Galveston, were later taken to Galveston Yacht Basin.

At this time, it is unclear what caused the fire.

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