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The European Commission on Friday said it found TikTok had not adequately protected children’s privacy rights on its platform by allowing adults to view the accounts of minors. The action exposed children to cyberbullying, unwanted contact and predatory behavior, commission spoke...
A United Nations committee voted Friday to inscribe a major archaeological site in the West Bank and a set of castles in southern Lebanon as World Heritage sites, despite objections from Israel, which had urged the committee to reject the bids. The decision at a U.N. Educational,...
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz reshuffled top posts on Friday as he tries to boost the fortunes of his deeply unpopular government ahead of regional elections in which a far-right party could get its first state governor. Merz took office less than 15 months ago with pledges to...
Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones didn't seem to take city attorney Andy Segovia's response to her suggestion to divert Ready to Work funds as a "no." City attorney suggests mayor’s plan to end Ready to Work early may run afoul of state law was first posted on July 23, 2026 at 7:34 pm. &cop...
A federal judicial panel has allowed Tennessee to use a new congressional map that splits apart a majority-Black district in Memphis , providing another legal victory for Republicans who hope to gain an additional seat in this year’s midterm elections. A three-judge panel on Thur...
The state has sent more than 3,000 letters to Alaska voters asking them to verify their citizenship ahead of the Aug. 18 primary, a number a top state elections official said is unusually high. The letters have raised concerns among some state lawmakers, including one who said so...
Nearly 150,000 California voters had their mail-in ballots rejected for the state's June primary, a spike from recent elections even as the state attempts to make voting easier with the goal of boosting participation and counting every ballot. California has become notorious for ...
Diplomats from around the world are gathering at United Nations headquarters in New York on Friday to decide whether to permanently remove the embattled chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. British barrister Karim Khan has been accused of sexual misconduct with a...
The House on Thursday narrowly passed a resolution to halt U.S. military action in Iran , sending a warning to President Donald Trump for the second time as the war has escalated and the future of the conflict is increasingly uncertain. The 214-208 vote requiring congressional ap...
Commentary: Raising campaign donation limits gives wealthy donors more influence while weakening the voices of working families, renters, and seniors. Residents should decide elections, not big money was first posted on July 23, 2026 at 6:00 am. ©2021 " San Antonio Report "....
A Boerne horse ranch is asking the Kendall County community for help after last week’s flooding sent several feet of water through its buildings, damaged expensive equipment and left crews digging out from heavy mud. Corrival Ranch — a horse breeding, training, rehabilitation and...
EAGLE PASS — No border city received more Republican attention in 2024 than Eagle Pass , where Texas’ GOP leaders took over a public park and dispatched thousands of state troopers and Texas National Guard members to patrol the Rio Grande after the city became a hot spot for ille...
A billboard campaign has launched near the Pearl, aiming to raise awareness, generate tips and connect human trafficking victims with help.
San Antonio’s Ready to Work workforce development program, created to help low-income residents train for higher-paying careers, could eventually end under a proposal from Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones to address the city’s financial challenges. Jones is asking the San Antonio City Coun...
WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert discussed what more can be done to protect players from online harassment during a virtual meeting with the players' union executive committee and the union's Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee. The call Tuesday night came at the ...
The House on Wednesday passed a defense policy bill that incorporates President Donald Trump's request for a historic $1.15 trillion in spending for national security and that would designate the Department of Defense as the Department of War. It also would provide for a pay rais...
House Speaker Mike Johnson will try to advance a Republican-only $95 billion budget proposal Wednesday, a long-shot effort to fund the Iran war and other White House priorities over Democratic objections as a GOP priority before the midterm elections . House Republicans are divid...
Mayor Jones proposes ending Ready to Work initiative amid budget woes; SA nonprofit launches new flood relief fund for small businesses; How to keep pets safe in the heat...
When midterm campaigning began, each major political party had a clear game plan. Republicans would emphasize border security and an economy that was finally shaking off years of high inflation. Democrats would focus attention on a deeply unpopular President Donald Trump to energ...
U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s announcements during his first 24 hours on the job underscore the political and financial challenges he faces as he tries to jump-start the country’s sluggish economy. Burnham, from Britain’s left-leaning Labour Party, faces restive voters seeki...
San Antonio faces a $158 million budget gap — and Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones is targeting a major city program funded through 2030 to close it. Mayor Jones floats ending Ready to Work early to redirect funds to San Antonio’s budget shortfall was first posted on July 21, 2026 at 7:43 ...
Democratic U.S. Rep. Cleo Fields said Tuesday he would not seek reelection to his redrawn Louisiana congressional district that was at the center of a major U.S. Supreme Court ruling on race and redistricting. The majority Black congressional district was redrawn by the state leg...
An independent autopsy commissioned by the family of Nolan Xavier Wells found the 18-year-old's cause and manner of death to be “undetermined" pending further investigation. The civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who is representing the Wells family, announced the preliminary findi...
President Donald Trump is set to rally in Michigan next week as early in-person voting begins in the battleground state’s primary, where voters will choose nominees for open Senate and governor’s races. The rally is set to take place in Oakland County on Monday, according to a pe...
Four months after two children’s deaths and other staffing problems at Dallas-based foster care provider EMPOWER forced the state to place it into receivership , the agency’s commissioner took action on Tuesday and abruptly canceled the private company’s contract. In a letter sen...
A chaotic Democratic primary for Wisconsin governor that has seen numerous candidates drop out and re-enter the race has threatened to leave thousands of voters who have already returned their ballots with worthless votes for the state's top office. That possibility prompted the ...
The Historic and Design Review Commission is scheduled to consider the plans August 5 and make a recommendation for eight of the 18 stations.
Baseball players proposed expanding eligibility for the amateur draft rather than decreasing it, maintaining 20 rounds of selections and moving it back to June in a signal the sport is heading to a labor confrontation this offseason. During a two-hour bargaining session Tuesday a...
The Senate Intelligence Committee has advanced the nomination of Jay Clayton , President Donald Trump’s pick to head the nation’s intelligence agencies, along party lines. The 9-8 vote came after some Democrats had praised Clayton and indicated that they might vote for him. But t...
The House moved Tuesday to head-off a potential government shutdown before this fall's critical midterm elections by passing a bill to fund the federal government through Dec. 4. The deadline for action is more than two months away, but House GOP leaders are not leaving to chance...
The progressive movement may already have hit its high point in the 2026 midterms. Or this may be the beginning of a much more powerful shift as voters, eager for change, decide to embrace far-left populism on a national scale. It depends upon who you ask within a Democratic Part...
The U.S. and Iran are back to bombing every day in a bid to control the Strait of Hormuz . And neither is backing down, showing the limitations of President Donald Trump’s reliance on escalating airstrikes to bend Tehran to his will. While the Trump administration says it is open...
Zavala County residents begin flood recovery; San Antonio ISD officially hires new district leader; Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones weighs in on budget gap
More project details are coming into focus for the Terry Black’s Barbecue mixed-use development on Broadway. Architectural renderings submitted to the Historic and Design Review Commission for the hotel portion of the project, dubbed The Mandeville, show how the project is taking...
The San Antonio Independent School District Board of Trustees voted Monday to name Adrian Bustillos to lead the district as superintendent, according to a news release. Bustillos was initially voted as a finalist for the role on June 24. “We believe Adrian Bustillos is the leader...
Most polling shows Talarico, the Democratic nominee for Senate, in a statistical dead heat against his Republican rival, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton....
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is facing accusations that he lied about the size of the crowd that showed up to his first campaign rally of the general election. Paxton, who’s running against Democrat State Rep. James Talarico for the state’s open U.S. Senate race, hosted a ra...
State Rep. James Talarico received a jolt of social media attention over video of what the Houston Chronicle described as a “spirited exchange” over the weekend between the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate and a Black voter. The clip, posted by Austin-American-Statesman reporter ...
Southeastern Conference Commissioner Greg Sankey said Monday that leaders of the powerhouse league are having “real” conversations about breaking away from the rest of college sports, though that is not the preferred solution.“They’re real,” Greg Sankey said Monday of talks with ...
Spain's World Cupwinning soccer team is set to return home on Monday, where the 26-man squad will be greeted by Spanish royalty and Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez before boarding an open-top bus for a parade through central Madrid.Throngs of fans will greet them as they travel from...
Jury selection begins Monday in the trial of a Massachusetts mother who strangled her three children while undergoing medical treatment for psychiatric problems that developed after she gave birth.Lindsay Clancy has pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the deaths of her childr...
The battle for the House runs through swingy South Texas, with two San Antonio-area districts projected to see as much as $30 million spent. Who’s running in the midterm elections? Meet the candidates in our 2026 Voter Guide. was first posted on September 18, 2026 at 5:45 pm. &co...
Andy Burnham, the former mayor of Greater Manchester and new leader of the Labour Party, is taking the final steps on Monday to succeed Keir Starmer and become Britain's seventh prime minister in a decade. The affable Burnham returned to Parliament in June by winning a risky spec...
The Northside Independent School District’s board of trustees voted Sunday to name Jessica Palomares as interim superintendent, the district announced in a news release.Palomares begins the new job leading NISD on Aug. 1, according to the news release. The Holmes High School alum...
This article was originally published by the Texas Observer, a nonprofit investigative news outlet and magazine. Sign up for their weekly newsletter, or follow them on Facebook, X, and Bluesky. In late June, the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) set controversial new curricul...
Dallas-area Democrats are demanding that Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton be investigated for illegal voting after ProPublica and The Texas Tribune revealed that he has repeatedly voted while registered at an address where he appears to no longer live. In a complaint ...
Critics call it a power grab for incumbents, while others say it’s the only way stop outside PACs from dominating another mayoral race.San Antonio council members’ fundraising has dried up — now some want to change the rules was first posted on July 19, 2026 at 5:00 am.©2021...
San Antonio says Texas' largest municipal solar program wi...
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers is endorsing Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley in the state's Democratic gubernatorial primary, a day after the race was shaken up by the departure of another candidate, and just weeks ahead of the primary election.At a formal event later Saturday...
Nearly a decade ago, Jon Ossoff was a 30-year-old Democratic congressional candidate promising Georgia suburban voters he would “cut wasteful spending” and make “both parties in Washington” be “accountable to you.” His Republican opponent even complained that Ossoff “talks like a...
Rescue crews on Saturday raced to find survivors from a landslide in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing that killed at least eight people and left 34 missing. The landslide occurred in Pengshui County on Friday morning on the outskirts of Chongqing municipality, when mass...
Utah revoked another campus license on Friday for the boarding school where Paris Hilton said she was abused as a teenager, marking a major victory in the hotel heiress’ yearslong fight to shut down the school.The Utah Department of Health and Human Services' decision cites a mul...
