The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate climbed this week to its highest level in nearly a year, driving up borrowing costs for prospective homebuyers.The benchmark 30-year fixed rate mortgage rate rose to 6.55% from 6.49% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. One year ago, the av...
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Yet another new eatery is in the works at the Pearl — and it has a familiar face behind the reins. Mixtli chef and co-owner Rico Torres has joined forces with Gabe Erales and André Natera to form a new hospitality group dubbed La Unión Hospitality, according to details unveiled Thursday by the pa...
President Donald Trump’s teleprompter operator is on unpaid leave after reports that he used his inside knowledge to make bets about the president’s speeches on the online prediction market Kalshi, the White House said Thursday.The firm’s enforcement chief said Kalshi contacted federal regulators...
Camp La Jita, a Girl Scouts camp in Uvalde County, evacuated their camp earlier this week. Others say they are monitoring the weather and preparing to enact safety plans.
President Donald Trump's administration has worked to stop offshore wind development on the grounds that it's a national security risk since late last year.It halted work on major projects, and it's buying back leases, citing national security concerns. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum says a class...
WATCH LIVE RADAR IN VIDEO PLAYER ABOVEFORECAST HIGHLIGHTSFLASH FLOOD EMERGENCIES: Along Guadalupe and Pedernales Rivers, & in Uvalde CountyOTHER FLOODING RIVERS/CREEKS: Nueces, Frio, Sabinal, Leona, Medina, CiboloEXTREME RAINFALL: 8″ to 12″ over past 24 hours, Up to 18″to 29″ since Monday nightSA...
Mayor wants to increase San Antonio's involvement in VA sponsored psychedelic clinical trials to treat PTSD in veterans.Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones wants San Antonio to get psychedelic drug clinical trials to help treat veterans was first posted on July 16, 2026 at 1:00 pm.©2021 "San Antonio Repo...
Federal safety investigators looking into a runaway Tesla that killed a grandmother in her home say the driver had pressed the accelerator to full speed, suggesting the vehicle's self-driving software was not to blame.The driver had told police that he had the self-driving software turned on, but...
The University of Texas at San Antonio and the Oasis student housing complex are working with the Red Cross to assist at least 10 students displaced by the tornado that touched down in the area, San Antonio Fire Department officials told the Current. Depending on availability, affected resident...
A Republican senator whose vote Todd Blanche needs to advance his nomination as attorney general suggested Thursday that his support hinges on Blanche first meeting with Jeffrey Epstein's accusers.Sen. Thom Tillis' comments came a day after Blanche was pressed during his confirmation hearing over...
Speaking on the House floor Wednesday, U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, said “Israel does not need — or quite honestly deserve — more American money for weapons.” Castro was one of 103 House Democrats who voted Wednesday to cut the $3.3 billion in military aid the U.S. supplies to Israel ...
Jordan Walker rooted for Chipper Jones as a young Braves fan raised in suburban Atlanta and used to beg his family to take him to baseball games at Turner Field.Walker’s parents -- “Jordan’s Dad” and “Jordan’s Mom,” as known by their customized jerseys this week at the Home Run Derby — often obli...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday convened leaders from more than 60 countries to take part in the Trump administration's latest effort to quell what it calls “left wing” political terrorism, a marquee issue for Republicans heading into the midterm elections. This focus comes even as stu...
Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday that officials were working to confirm additional details on the victim.
The Brazilian government has decried the latest U.S. tariff on certain Brazilian imports and threatened to impose reciprocal tariffs against U.S. products.The United States on Wednesday said it would impose a new 25% tariff on certain imports from Brazil, citing unfair trade practices by the worl...
Officials in Kendall County provided an update on its flood response during a Thursday morning news conference. The news conference began at approximately 11:47 a.m. at the Kendall County Road and Bridge Building near the Interstate 10 frontage road and County Road 290. According to the National ...
Belgian rider Tim Merlier earned another stage win at the Tour de France while several riders fell as they sprinted to the line Thursday.Defending champion Tadej Pogacar avoided the crash and kept his significant overall lead over second-place Jonas Vingegaard after 12 stages.It was Merlier’s thi...
The Trump administration is reviving a rule that could deny green cards to immigrants who use public benefits that could include food stamps, Medicaid, housing vouchers and others. The policy, known as “public charge,” appeared on Thursday in the Federal Register. It will be formally published on...
Subscribe to The Y’all — a weekly dispatch about the people, places and policies defining Texas, produced by Texas Tribune journalists living in communities across the state.BOCA CHICA BEACH — As a child, Christopher Basaldu, a lifelong resident of Brownsville, would take family trips to Boca Chi...
Severe flash flooding has hit parts of the Hill Country along the Guadalupe and Pedernales rivers, prompting the National Weather Service to issue multiple flash flood emergencies. The NWS reserves this type of warning for "exceedingly rare," life-threatening flood situations.
The conflict between Iran and the United States has intensified in recent days and an interim deal to end the fighting has collapsed less than a month after it was signed.The Memorandum of Understanding was supposed to halt all military operations and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial waterw...
The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate climbed this week to its highest level in nearly a year, driving up borrowing costs for prospective homebuyers.The benchmark 30-year fixed rate mortgage rate rose to 6.55% from 6.49% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. One year ago, the av...
The U.S. Treasury last year swelled with revenue from President Donald Trump’s double-digit taxes on imports from almost every country on earth.But the money dried up after the Supreme Court struck down the biggest and boldest of Trump’s tariffs in February.The question now is: Can the president’...
The San Antonio Film Festival, the largest event of its kind in South Texas, opens next Tuesday, bringing six days of films from around the world packaged in an approachable experience. Filmmaking is an insular world in which contacts are paramount. SAFILM understands this and intentionally craft...
A shelter-in-place remains in effect for Uvalde County as an excessive amount of rain continues to fall. In Uvalde County, over 10 inches of rain have fallen Thursday on top of the showers for the last couple of days. The severe weather has caused all major highways and many Uvalde County streets...
San Antonio music fans shouldn’t let the recent precipitation keep them indoors. This week’s options include country icon Dwight Yoakam, Grupo Frontera’s arena-sized regional Mexican party and enough crushing doom metal to make forget the dampness altogether. Thursday, July 16 Hemisfair Summer Se...
A man was hit and killed by a vehicle early Thursday morning on the far West Side, according to San Antonio police. Officers responded to the incident just before 5 a.m. in the 5000 block of Spurs Ranch, which is located near U.S. Highway 90. According to an SAPD preliminary report, a witness tra...
Heavy, pungent smoke from Canadian wildfires darkened skies in the U.S. on Thursday from the Great Lakes to parts of the East Coast, reducing visibility and prompting warnings that breathing the air outside could be dangerous.Officials in many cities urged residents to stay inside or wear masks o...
Authorities arrested a San Antonio police officer Wednesday on charges of injuring a child and child endangerment, department officials said. Bless Achor, a six-year SAPD veteran, turned himself in to the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office after learning a warrant had been issued for his arrest, accor...
The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) issued a CLEAR Alert for a 28-year-old man last seen on the West Side.According to DPS, Zeus Dimas was last seen Wednesday in the 2400 block of Rivas Street, which is located south of Culebra Road.Dimas is 5 feet, 3 inches tall and weighs around 140 pou...
Officials under President Donald Trump want to make it easier for men to get a prescription for testosterone, the latest shift in a decades-long debate over the benefits and risks of replacing the hormone that affects sex drive, mood and other health factors.The move, backed by Health Secretary R...
Nearly two weeks after the one-year mark of the deadly Hill Country floods, a Kerr County wildlife rescue facility was torn apart for the second time. The Buck Wild Animal Rescue and Wildlife Rehab facility, which is located in the 200 block of Lazy Creek Road in Ingram, shared videos of how this...
The U.S. government has designated two new Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. They are the Juárez Cartel, on the border with Texas, and Los Viagras, a criminal group from the western state of Michoacán. The Federal Register, the U.S. government's gazette, published the designatio...
The FBI says parents should be involved in their children’s online lives after a San Antonio man was sentenced in a child exploitation case. FBI issues warning to parents after San Antonio member of violent online network sentenced was first posted on July 16, 2026 at 9:00 am.©2021 "San Anto...
When wildfires burn, smoke can travel long distances and degrade air quality far away, posing risks to those breathing it.Fires burning in one state can make the air worse several states away, and wildfires in Canada can send smoke into U.S. cities.Here’s what to know about taking precautions aga...
Two of the eight men indicted in an alleged drone and sniper plot to attack President Donald Trump's UFC cage-fighting show on the White House lawn pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal conspiracy charges.Clothed in jail garb and shackled, Tycen Proper, 19, of Danville, Ohio, and Chandler Scaggs...
Shoppers slowed their spending in June from May, as they spent less to fill their gas tank because of falling gas prices.But the report, released by the Commerce Department on Thursday, showed consumers' continued resilience despite ongoing economic uncertainty as they bought cars and took advant...
Filings for unemployment benefits fell last week to the lowest level in 10 weeks as U.S. layoffs remain historically low.The number of Americans applying for jobless aid in the week ending July 11 dropped by 8,000 to 208,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That's well below the 219,000 n...
President Donald Trump is set to address the nation Thursday at 9 p.m. ET on topics he said will include elections and voting machines, suggesting he could revisit long-debunked conspiracy theories about his 2020 defeat to Democrat Joe Biden. The speech comes as he’s escalated his calls for Repub...
Flash Flood Emergencies remain in effect in parts of Kerr and Uvalde counties as life-threatening flooding continues across the Texas Hill Country and much of South Central Texas.
Rescuers in boats and helicopters saved dozens of stranded drivers and people trapped in homes from catastrophic flooding that hit parts of Texas overnight while many more fled to higher ground Thursday in a region still reeling from devastating floods a year ago. At least one person has died, Go...
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