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Caitlin Clark was voted to start her third straight All-Star Game and will be joined by Indiana Fever teammates Kelsey Mitchell and Aliyah Boston, the WNBA announced Thursday.It's the second time in four years that three players from the same team were chosen to start the game, w...
The Voting Rights Act, the landmark civil rights law, banned racial discrimination in voting and enforced the 15th Amendment right for Black men to vote....
Across the United States, many Americans are celebrating their country's 250th birthday by closing their ears to all the partisan shouting. All the fingernails-on-chalkboard screeching out of Washington. All the clamor of social media agitprop.Instead, in varied ways, they are tu...
California is finally nearing the end of the ballot counting from its June 2 primary, a tediously slow process that is largely the result of multiple changes over the years intended to boost turnout by making voting easier and more accessible.State data and experts who study voti...
President Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans are reviving a line of attack against Democrats heading into the midterm elections: They're communists. In just the past week, Trump has issued dark warnings that members of the Democratic Party's ascendant left are communists who...
A Schertz-Cibolo-Universal City Independent School District trustee is suing the district he represents in an effort to restore his access to district property and funds, court records obtained Tuesday by KSAT Investigates show.Trustee Matthew Short, who records show is represent...
Texas Rep. Gina Hinojosa, the Austin Democrat running to unseat Gov. Greg Abbott, is calling out her Republican rival for refusing to accept her invitation to an October debate. “Abbott owes it to the voters to have a real debate about who has a stronger vision for the future of ...
A federal judge in Arkansas has thrown out a handful of state laws that put extra restrictions on citizen efforts to gather signatures for ballot initiatives, agreeing with challengers that they violated the constitutional free speech rights of voters.The decision handed several ...
The Bexar County Hospital District Board of Managers approved on Tuesday $90 million to add on more inpatient bed capacity and outpatient exam rooms at Palo Alto Hospital on the South Side and Retama Hospital on the far Northeast side. University Health’s 2 new hospitals haven’t ...
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Popular — and expensive — GLP-1 weight loss drugs just got a lot cheaper for many older Americans. Starting Wednesday, the federal government is offering a selection of the brand name medications to certain Medicare and Medicare Advantage beneficiaries for $50 a month through a n...
San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones joined the 6 O’Clock News on Tuesday to discuss the city’s fiscal challenges as it approaches a $158 million budget gap.If the city eliminated every library, all general fund spending on public health and funds to Animal Care Services, San Anton...
Whither the U.S. House?As the nation celebrates its 250th birthday this weekend, the legislative branch has momentarily called it quits.The House leadership on Tuesday abruptly canceled votes and sent lawmakers home early for the holiday recess, Speaker Mike Johnson ’s majority o...
The NBA is going back to college this coming season, bringing the NBA Cup championship game to Butler's historic Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.Hinkle — one of the oldest arenas in the country — is iconic, and more than fits the billing that NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and ot...
President Donald Trump has announced that Republicans will hold their first-ever national convention ahead of the midterm elections, an unusual event aimed at boosting turnout in races that will decide whether the party maintains control of Congress. The convention will be held i...
A Republican Texas Railroad Commission candidate known for his frequent xenophobic and racially charged comments is egging on a constitutional crisis by urging Texas officials to ignore the U.S. Supreme Court’s Tuesday ruling upholding birthright citizenship. In a Tuesday rant on...
Phoenix Mercury forward Alyssa Thomas said she has received death threats and been called racial slurs in the aftermath of her one-game suspension after she made contact with her fist to Caitlin Clark’s throat in last week's matchup against Indiana.Thomas also criticized WNBA Com...
A pair of San Antonio politicos are getting into the tattoo business. District 2 Councilman Jalen McKee-Rodriguez and Melissa Cabello Havrda, who represented District 6 on council until 2025, released a video revealing they’re launching a new tattoo shop in the Pride Cultural Dis...
ODESSA — Bo French, the Republican nominee for Texas Railroad Commissioner in the November midterm election, on Tuesday called the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold birthright citizenship “traitorous,” saying Texas should not recognize babies born to undocumented parents a...
A federal control board that oversees Puerto Rico’s finances announced Tuesday that it has offered a $3 billion settlement to bondholders in a new push to finally restructure more than $10 billion in debt held by the U.S. territory’s power company.The board is proposing paying ca...
A leading Israeli general who quit Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's war Cabinet after accusing him of lacking a strategy in Gaza has emerged as one of the premier’s most serious challengers in elections scheduled for the fall.His name is Gadi Eisenkot. On Tuesday in Israel, hi...
A State Board of Education member from San Antonio has threatened to sue two other members of the board, alleging they’re harming her reputation by labeling her a “Marxist” and blaming her for spreading “gender confusion” among young people, the Texas Tribune reports. Marisa B. P...
More U.S. scientists are heading abroad. Three researchers explain why they decided to shift their research to universities in the U.K.
More U.S. scientists are heading abroad. Three researchers explain why they decided to shift their research to universities in the U.K.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday erased limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president, striking down a federal election law that is more than 50 years old.Prodded by a Republican-led lawsuit that includes Vice President JD V...
Americans' attitudes toward the economy improved slightly this month as gas prices declined, but their outlook is still mostly negative by historical standards. The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index rose 0.6 point to 91.2 in June, a figure that is s...
Kerr County commissioners are expected to discuss flood warning system agreements during a Tuesday morning meeting, weeks after the county became the first in Texas to install and test new state-funded flash flood warning sirens and sensors under Senate Bill 3.The agenda item is ...
Colorado’s Democratic primaries on Tuesday will help answer a question the party has increasingly faced nationally: Are voters gravitating toward a younger, more progressive generation of leaders or sticking with established veterans?That choice is starkly reflected in the fight ...
With a nearly $158 million budget shortfall to close over the next two years, Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones has pointed to some unexpected places to cut deep.The city has not publicly revealed a full list of specific budget cuts being considered, but some possibilities have come up duri...
Colorado voters will not get a say this November on whether to replace the state's congressional districts with ones that could help Democrats win additional seats in future elections. The state Supreme Court on Monday struck down a series of proposed ballot initiatives that woul...
A few days ago, a federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s use of a revamped immigration database to identify noncitizens who have registered to vote across the country. The pointed 75-page ruling from U.S. District Court Judge Sparkle Sooknanan said the federal governmen...
The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a Mississippi law that allows election officials to count mail-in ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but received up to five days after it....
States that allow mail ballots to be counted after Election Day reacted with relief Monday after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a Republican effort to outlaw the practice.A decision favoring the state of Mississippi over the Republican National Committee delivered an immediate r...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was caught on video boarding a flight to Iceland for a getaway with his alleged mistress, British tabloid The Daily Mail reports. Paxton — a MAGA Republican now running for U.S. Senate — and his purported mistress of two years, Christian influenc...
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was gifted concert tickets in Puerto Rico last year as members of the high court continued to accept paid teaching gigs and receive royalties for books they have written, according to financial disclosure forms released Monday that provide in...
CORPUS CHRISTI — Kendall Scudder will lead the Texas Democratic Party into the critical midterm elections this year after Texas Democrats elected him to a full term as chair at the party’s convention in Corpus Christi. The party’s delegates overwhelmingly chose Scudder to continu...
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that states can count ballots that arrive after Election Day, a persistent target of President Donald Trump.The 5-4 decision rejected a Republican-led attack on laws in more than half the states and the District of Columbia that permit mailed bal...
The Supreme Court said Monday it will consider a Republican push to enforce strict Arizona voting laws passed in the swing state after the 2020 election.The high court has allowed some similar rules to take effect temporarily before, including Arizona's proof-of-citizenship requi...
Andy Burnham, likely the next U.K. prime minister, pledged Monday to give away a chunk of his power by handing greater autonomy to local leaders in a “circuit-breaker” for the sclerotic British state.The former mayor of Greater Manchester also said he would move part of the prime...
Around 13% of Bexar residents over the age of 65 are living with the disease.
If the World Cup was the NCAA basketball tournament, then teams like Morocco and the Netherlands would have some serious anger toward the selection and seeding committee right now. England, Mexico, Portugal and Spain might not be all that happy, either.Lionel Messi and Argentina,...
Usually the primary is the main event, but this year Democrats and Republican are preparing to rain money down on Bexar County voters. Here's 5 races to watch, plus three more interesting races.Top 5 races to watch this November 2026 election was first posted on June 28, 2026 at ...
A Chinese political dissident who had fled to South Korea last month in a dinghy has arrived in Canada, his friend said on social media on Saturday. Dong Guangping was aboard a 3.3-meter (10.8-foot) inflatable boat in the waters off a western South Korean island in May when he wa...
Texas will require Bible stories in public schools after the State Board of Education approved a mandatory reading list Friday alongside a rewrite of K-8 social studies lessons that minimize racial, geographic and cultural diversity. The Republican-led board passed the mandated ...
A man with the same name and party affiliation as Alaska Republican U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan is eligible for the August primary and can appear on the ballot, a judge ruled Friday.Superior Court Judge Thomas Matthews’ ruling overturns a June 15 decision by Division of Elections Dire...
More than 50 drivers who paid fines after receiving traffic citations in Bexar County for speeding soon should be getting their money back.Bexar County commissioners voted Tuesday to issue refunds to 57 people who were cited through a now-illegal Light Detection and Ranging syste...
A recently listed for sale in a North Central San Antonio cul-de-sac comes with a lot of wishlist items, and all for the price of just $750,000. Some of these items, found on many a Pinterest board, are something one wouldn’t typically expect to get with a house that costs less t...
A poll worker said two federal officers visited her at a voting location during New York’s primaries to confront her about a social media post she’d written criticizing the ICE officer who fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis.Paigelynne Gonyea said the confrontation happened Tu...
Three City Council members are requesting a special public meeting to discuss how money promised by the San Antonio Spurs for community benefits could be spent. And they want that briefing before negotiations begin between city staff and Spurs Sports & Entertainment to hash out t...
The San Antonio Spurs used their 2026 NBA Draft selections to bolster their defensive frontcourt around Victor Wembanyama, addressing depth issues exposed during their recent Finals run. The franchise took Jayden Quaintance from the University of Kentucky with the No. 20 pick and...
The State Board of Education on Friday approved a new reading list that includes numerous Bible passages. They're also considering a social studies curriculum that emphasizes U.S. and Texas history over world cultures. Approved changes take effect in 2030....
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A new report by a Trump administration commission suggests replacing the idea of separating church and state with the idea of building bridges between them.The assertion — challenging a longstanding concept in American law — comes amid a raft of recommendations in a draft report ...
A Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) member representing San Antonio is raising the alarm about statewide curriculum changes that could require Texas students to learn Bible verses in class and receive a whitewashed version of U.S. history. The Republican-led SBOE opted Thursd...
In a 5-2 vote, San Antonio ISD’s board of trustees on Wednesday selected Adrian Bustillos as the sole finalist to replace retiring superintendent Jaimie Aquino. That decision isn’t without controversy, however. In the early 2010s, El Paso ISD, where Bustillos was serving as assis...
Austin-based Joe Rogan, host of one of the world’s most-listened-to podcasts, criticized the Trump administration’s plan to put up 17 miles of non-contiguous barrier fences in Big Bend National Park. Rogan, who endorsed Trump in the 2024 election, called the White House plan “B.S...
The San Antonio Botanical Garden is pushing back at Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones’ proposal to end public subsidies to the nonprofit as the city looks to rein in a looming $158 million budget deficit. During a meeting last week, Jones said she wants to drop the city’s subsidy to the gar...
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