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Una sola cosa. Just one thing. That's all Victor Martinez wanted from listeners of his Spanish-language radio station — tell him one positive thing about President Donald Trump. The calls started rolling in. Someone mentioned the $5,000 payout that Trump promised if Republicans k...
Democratic Tejano singer Bobby Pulido is challenging Republican U.S. Rep. Monica De La Cruz in Texas' 15th Congressional District, testing whether the GOP can hold on to its gains among South Texas Latino voters....
Maybe President Donald Trump really does believe that “tariff” is the most beautiful word in the dictionary . Despite higher prices, criticism from trade experts and displeasure among voters, Trump holds fast to his belief that imposing the highest import duties on U.S. trading p...
Nelson Vandermeer voted Republican for decades but balked at supporting President Donald Trump , fearing that the Republican's plan for tariffs on imports would hurt workers more than help. Last year, Vandermeer's premonition came true in a very personal way. The 62-year-old lost...
Support for nonpartisan judicial elections is being put to the test in Montana, the latest location in a nationwide battle for bench seats that can determine the fate of consequential state laws. After a series of recent court rulings on abortion, voting and climate change disple...
President Donald Trump openly encouraged Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania to switch parties and become a Republican just weeks before the midterm elections could reshape control of Congress. “I'd love to see him as a Republican,” Trump told reporters at Joint Base A...
President Mahmoud Abbas postponed what would have been the first Palestinian elections in nearly 20 years, issuing a decree on Friday to further delay voting for the Palestinian Legislative Council almost another year. Rather than take place as scheduled next month, the decree pu...
In the thick of Alaska's primary election season this summer, independent Bill Hill took a break from his U.S. House campaign to return home to Bristol Bay. The world's biggest sockeye salmon run was beginning, and that meant he needed to get back to work. “I told my team that I ...
Simon has strengthened into a powerful Category 4 hurricane as it barrels toward Mexico’s coast. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Saturday that Simon’s maximum sustained winds increased to 150 mph (240 kph). A storm of that strength or greater is considered a major hur...
President Donald Trump and Iran's leadership appear to agree on one thing about their seven-month-old war : they each insist the U.S. election calendar isn't motivating them to find an end to it. Persistent inflation and high gas prices fueled by the conflict have driven widespre...
Indian authorities deployed a sweeping security crackdown across New Delhi and detained thousands of protesters Saturday as India's youth “Cockroach” movement sought to intensify a nationwide campaign against a contentious voter list revision that has fueled anger at Prime Minist...
President Donald Trump announced Friday that Katie Zacharia, a communications adviser for his media company, will succeed Karoline Leavitt as White House press secretary. Trump revealed his selection of Zacharia on his Truth Social platform, where he often makes political and off...
President Donald Trump said he has struck a deal to obtain diesel from Russia, a stunning reversal of years of U.S. pressure on Moscow over its war with Ukraine and an attempt to address high fuel prices ahead of the U.S. midterm elections. Trump said on social media on Friday th...
TX35 nominees make appeals to voters in forum for the hotly contested Congressional seat In hotly contested TX35, candidates debate affordability, immigration and tariffs’ impact on business owners was first posted on October 9, 2026 at 10:27 am. ©2021 " San Antonio Report "...
Last month, Lubbock City Council began the procedure to adopt a pause on large-scale data center development. If the moratorium passes, it will be two years until another one can be put in place. With more information and potential changes likely to come out of the state's legisl...
If you're using the U.S. Postal Service to return a ballot close to Election Day, officials recommend getting it postmarked at a post office to avoid getting caught up in mail processing changes....
City leaders want to make sure ICE’s proposed facility gets an environmental assessment and study its impact on city services. City council members prep for legal action on proposed ICE facility as they launch studies on its impact was first posted on October 9, 2026 at 8:00 am. ...
President Donald Trump veered far from midterm election politics during a rally in upstate New York on Friday, aiming a bitter diatribe at the Norwegian Nobel Committee for giving the Peace Prize he has long sought to South African jurist Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, a former U.N. h...
The top trade envoys for China and the European Union agreed Friday on a broad initial deal following two days of talks aimed at calming escalating tensions over trade imbalances, the EU trade commissioner said. Neither side provided clear details on the preliminary deal, but Eur...
As most of the political world focuses on next month's midterm elections , the shadow primary for the 2028 presidential contest is quietly playing out in public view. Democratic and Republican presidential prospects have been crisscrossing the country, raising money and tapping t...
Jerry Jones had his fingers entwined in front of him as he glanced up toward the big video board with a concerned look on his face. Right after his Dallas Cowboys fell behind against winless Tampa Bay, Dak Prescott threw an interception. Things were just starting to really unrave...
The Arlington County Board in Virginia filed a lawsuit Thursday opposing the construction of the Triumphal Arch, becoming the first governmental body to take legal action against President Donald Trump's planned monument. The lawsuit, filed in the Eastern District of Virginia, cr...
Margaret Hamilton, a groundbreaking computer scientist who led the team that created the onboard flight software for NASA’s moon-bound Apollo program and later in life was celebrated as a powerful symbol of women in technology, has died. She was 90. Hamilton died Sept. 30 at a ho...
After a 4-month delay, City Council approved a rate increase for the San Antonio Water System, upping the average monthly bill by nearly $4. City Council approves 6.9% rate increase on water bills starting in 2027 was first posted on October 8, 2026 at 1:46 pm. ©2021 " San A...
President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will not order a resumption of military strikes on Iran before the Nov. 3 midterm elections in the United States. Trump, while stumping for Republicans this week, has hinted that was confident that at endgame to the war cold come in th...
The impact of the posts by Bo French, the Republican candidate for the Texas Railroad Commission, could extend beyond his campaign, testing the GOP in Texas....
President Donald Trump rallied supporters at Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio, urging voters to back Republican candidates in closely watched races. Republican candidates Ken Paxton and Carlos de la Cruz joined Trump on stage during the rally. Paxton is running against Democrat Ja...
President Donald Trump, facing protesters and a poor political climate, fought to rally Texas voters behind Senate candidate Ken Paxton on Wednesday night in a bid to stave off sweeping Democratic victories in the nation’s most populous red state. The president’s message was inte...
City Council is expected to vote Thursday on a proposed San Antonio Water System rate increase that would raise residential bills and help pay for major water and sewer infrastructure upgrades across the city. If approved, the rate adjustments would run through 2030. The City Cou...
Via Metropolitan Transit’s board has approved a five-year, $1.1 billion capital improvements plan. The plan, which it will review annually, includes investments in major transportation infrastructure, including Via’s new advanced rapid transit strategy. The agency has begun const...
Thousands of supporters of India’s youth “Cockroach” movement and several student groups demonstrated in the southern city of Bengaluru on Thursday, stepping up a nationwide campaign that is demanding the election chief’s resignation over a revision of voter lists that has remove...
The midterm elections are looming and the first hurricane of the Atlantic Season is menacing the Gulf Coast. But President Donald Trump is really, really hoping the weather doesn’t stop him from going to another big college football game — this one in Alabama on Saturday night. “...
The midterm elections might look ominous for President Donald Trump , but there are places where his Republican Party could turn the tables on Democrats if it can peel off a few key wins in key congressional races. National organizations are pumping money behind candidates that R...
Max Fried gave up two home runs, the New York Yankees had one taken off the board by fan interference and then their season ended Thursday night with a whimper. After Anthony Volpe's would-be tying homer in the bottom of the sixth inning turned into a double on video review, the ...
Thousands of Brazilian students marched in downtown Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday to protest against the possibility of Flávio Bolsonaro winning the presidency, after the far-right candidate received more votes than incumbent and left-leaning Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the first ...
The European Union is bracing for a confrontation with China as a trade deficit exceeding $1 billion a day heightens anxiety over potential job losses and pushes the bloc’s political leaders to take a more aggressive approach toward its second-largest trading partner. The Europea...
Ana Beatriz Bon Raggio is not persuaded by either left-leaning Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva or far-right Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro ahead of the second round of the presidential election on Oct. 25. “The right mixes religion and faith, whereas I think those things sho...
The KSAT 12 team is covering President Donald Trump’s expected appearance at San Antonio’s Freeman Coliseum on Wednesday for a rally ahead of the midterm election. People looking to attend the midterm rally Wednesday must request tickets through the GOP’s website . The venue will...
The Federal Communications Commission is considering a request by a conservative group to loosen rules on political robocalls , including those with artificial intelligence-generated voices, before November’s midterm elections. Federal law currently bans most robocalls to cellpho...
Republicans are increasingly anxious that the $1 billion at their disposal may not be enough to fend off sweeping midterm election losses as the party reckons with President Donald Trump’s unpopularity, persistent cost concerns and the fallout from the war in Iran . Despite their...
