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Saying President Donald Trump has abdicated his responsibilities on climate change, California Gov. Gavin Newsom met with world and business leaders Wednesday to advance climate action and clean energy on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly. State and local governments are...
McDonald’s said Wednesday it will spend $8.5 billion over the next decade to modernize its restaurants globally. Fast-food traffic in many markets, including the U.S., is flat, so for McDonald’s to continue to grow it has to grab share from competitors and improve restaurant prod...
A Tennessee judge granted Dolly Parton’s estate a temporary restraining order Wednesday against the late singer’s nephew Bryan Seaver and his private security company. She’s Alive, the entity founded to manage and protect Parton’s estate, had filed the complaint against Seaver an...
Months after the nationwide shutdown of Painted Tree Boutique left small art businesses without a storefront, some San Antonio vendors are returning to the same location under a new name and hoping for a fresh start. The former Painted Tree Boutiques space at Loop 410 and San Ped...
A San Antonio woman is helping people of all walks of life save money at the grocery store, one coupon at a time. Brenda Anz calls herself a “coupon educator.” “I teach coupon classes, and I’ve been doing it for the last 15 years,” Anz said. “So I come into the household, and I h...
Freshly in office, Prime Minister Andy Burnham got off to a strong start with U.S. President Donald Trump at their first meeting on Tuesday, with the president brushing aside differences over the Middle East and calling the British leader “a natural business person.” The two men ...
State visits usually occur when two countries are on warm terms, but U.S. President Donald Trump is hosting Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Washington this week as their economic and tech competition is only escalating, especially through an artificial intelligence race . Neither ex...
Construction projects in Stone Oak are drawing attention from residents who said they are concerned about growth, traffic and the loss of green space in the master-planned community. In response to our story about a new $6.4 million shopping center , Stone Oak neighbors shared th...
The two sides are exploring mutually beneficial economic development opportunities.
One of the largest U.S. franchisees for Wendy's has filed for bankruptcy protection after the restaurant chain tried to terminate its franchise agreement. Meritage Hospitality Group, which operates 314 Wendy’s restaurants in 15 states, said in a statement last week it intends to ...
Twelve states and Hollywood writers challenging Paramount’s buyout of Warner Bros. Discovery agreed to settle their lawsuits on Monday, effectively paving the way for the $81 billion mega merger to cross the finish line, with some new commitments from the company. The blockbuster...
It’s less than a 40-minute walk uptown to the Metropolitan Opera House from where Heartbeat Opera got its humble start in a yoga studio. But for Louisa Proske, it’s been an artistic journey years in the making. Proske, who co-founded the scrappy company in 2014, is making her Met...
More than eight weeks after floodwaters swept through parts of the Hill Country, some Kerr County businesses are still trying to recover without state or federal assistance. For many owners, reopening has meant relying on savings, grants and community support to keep employees wo...
Iranians are suffering as economic misery and internal repression leave “no room for people to breathe” after 1½ years of wars , Iran's most prominent human rights activist has told The Associated Press. Narges Mohammadi , 54, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023 , was t...
Bolivian lawmakers approved a $1.9 billion loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund on Friday, delivering the conservative government a key victory in its efforts to ease the country's deep economic crisis as unions threatened renewed protests . Just hours after Congre...
Late-night service workers and bar hoppers alike could soon have a new way to get home from downtown as VIA Metropolitan Transit plans a pilot program using VIA Link and ridesharing. Even after the daily bustle is over in downtown, the multitude of bar, restaurant, hotel and reta...
Pacifico Energy, the company developing a massive natural gas power plant and data center owned by Amazon in Pecos County, met with officials in neighboring Brewster County this week about the possibility of a similar project northwest of Alpine....
The economy, inflation and how those forces could impact the lives of Americans were front and center over the past week. Trips to the grocery store and gas station are more painful than they were last year, and rising costs are impacting the decisions of both households and busi...
The toll is both human and economic, and it's a shame we let it get this far. The post Trump’s war on immigration leaves us a weaker nation appeared first on San Antonio Current ....
Research scientist Ashish Rajurkar kneels in the dirt, lifting a large clod of soil tangled around a soybean plant. He knocks away pieces of earth from the plant's roots, which slope straight down instead of out to the side like typical soybean plants. Researchers hope roots like...
Warren Buffett is stepping down as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway in the next step of the transition at the top of the $1 trillion conglomerate he led for more than six decades. Buffett, 96, will become chairman emeritus and will take on his new role immediately, the company said...
Watching her staff happily hand out free meals for hundreds of residents outside their Wailua commercial kitchen, food truck co-owner Kelly Kakalia felt fulfilled. It was the day after Hurricane Lowell finished knocking out power, washing out roads and felling trees across Kauai,...
Anthropic's Claude is helping the company develop the next, more intelligent version of the model, the artificial intelligence lab said in an announcement Thursday. Claude is leading 26% of Anthropic's model research and development, which the company said means it can complete m...
Bill Miller Bar-B-Q announced Thursday it is providing space to the Elf Louise Christmas Project in its downtown warehouse to serve as the workshop hub for the holiday season, giving the longtime San Antonio holiday organization a central home as volunteers prepare gifts for fami...
Two major economic developments hit within 24 hours of each other Wednesday, and experts say San Antonio families could feel the effects at the gas pump, the grocery store and in their monthly bills. Diesel fuel crossed $6 a gallon nationally for the first time on record, accordi...
Michelin-starred restaurant owner Diego Galicia is launching a new concept on Grayson Street, featuring a European-inspired menu.
Nearly $12 billion in Medicaid funding to Texas hospitals will be restored, Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday, ending a near year-long impasse between Texas and the federal government. “This funding is a major victory for Texas patients,” Abbott said in a statement. “It authorizes n...
A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Kennedy Center to provide 30 days’ notice before making any major physical changes to the building , including demolishing it, as President Donald Trump has threatened. Trump said Wednesday that without his efforts to restore the aging buil...
Home shoppers holding out for relief from rising mortgage rates may be in for a long wait. The weekly average rate on a 30-year fixed-rate home loan has been rising for months and this week climbed to just below 7% — its highest level in over 19 months. The benchmark 30-year fixe...
OpenAI has disclosed six reports of “unexpected or concerning” behavior in artificial-intelligence models as the debate on AI safety becomes increasingly heated. The AI company also said Wednesday it was introducing a new framework for tracking, probing and disclosing instances o...
Todd Boehly and fellow co-owner Mark Walter have sold their stakes in Chelsea, handing full control to Clearlake Capital, the English Premier League club said on Wednesday. American businessman Boehly was the public face of Chelsea's ownership when the consortium took over in 202...
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said it’s up to each AI company to make sure its technology is safe, distancing himself from calls by rival companies for a coordinated slowdown in the development of advanced artificial intelligence. The comments Zuckerberg posted on social media followe...
Consumers may be griping about higher prices at the pump and elsewhere, but they keep spending, helping to power the economy, according to the latest government snapshot. Retail sales rebounded at a better-than-expected 1.2% increase last month after recording a revised 0.5% dip ...
