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San Antonio voters will see many new names on their Nov. 3 ballot thanks to redistricting, retirements and upsets. Find the list here. Redistricting scrambled San Antonio voters this year. Here’s how to find your sample ballot. was first posted on October 7, 2026 at 5:00 am. &cop...
As Israel gears up for its first elections since Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023 , attack, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his opponents are putting it at the heart of their campaigns. Nearly every poster, stump speech or televised debate seems to reference the attack, which has scarre...
Republicans are entering the final month of the midterm campaign increasingly anxious that the $1 billion at their disposal may not be enough to fend off sweeping losses as the party reckons with President Donald Trump's unpopularity, persistent cost concerns and the fallout from...
The San Antonio mayor requested to meet with President Donald Trump ahead of his scheduled visit to the East Side this week, saying she wants to discuss an “affordability crisis” facing the city. During KSAT’s weekly Q&A, Gina Ortiz Jones said she had not heard from the president...
The president's primary purpose in San Antonio is to get out the vote for Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton and down-ballot candidates. Protesters plan to greet Trump at San Antonio rally. GOP says it will fill Freeman Coliseum. was first posted on October 6, 2026 at 4:29 pm. ...
Atlantic Coast Conference Commissioner Jim Phillips isn't publicly fretting about four member schools expressing support for tweaking realignment provisions in the Protect College Sports Act to make it easier for schools to change leagues. Speaking Tuesday at preseason ACC basket...
President Trump is facing low approval ratings, and voters are blaming him for rising costs. Republicans are likely to pay the price at the ballot box next month....
With Republicans bracing for a difficult midterm election, Texas appears to have its biggest slate of competitive races for the Texas Legislature and U.S. Congress in years. The Texas Tribune has compiled a list of the most competitive general election contests, a measure of whic...
President Donald Trump is scheduled to hold a rally Wednesday evening at Freeman Coliseum, and San Antonio voters are split on what his visit means for a close Texas Senate race . Supporters said they welcomed the trip. “I love President Trump, he’s awesome,” one voter said. Anot...
The Floresville Independent School District Board of Trustees named their lone finalist for superintendent on Monday. The board selected Michael “Mike” Schroller following an open application process, interviews and community input, the district said in a news release. Schroller ...
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis says in a new book that his deciding vote to confirm Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in January 2025 is the “biggest regret of my career” and that he also “should’ve stopped” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from becoming Health and Human Services secretary in the...
Artificial intelligence insiders warned New York City's leaders about the dangers of the emerging technology on Monday, calling for greater oversight as local governments move to respond to mounting concerns that the systems could endanger humanity . At a hearing of the New York ...
Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones requested a meeting with President Donald Trump during his visit to San Antonio for a midterm rally . In a message on social media, Jones said she hopes to discuss the affordability crisis facing San Antonio families. “San Antonio is the third most impoveri...
The Bexar County Elections Department says its website is experiencing an outage on the last day to register to vote. In a Facebook post, the department said its vendor is aware of the issue and is working to restore service. >> Texas voter registration deadline is today: Here’s ...
Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro, an ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, has pulled off a strong showing in Brazil's first round of presidential elections, giving him momentum in the weeks before an Oct. 25 runoff against incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva . Bolsonaro, the 45-year-old son...
President Donald Trump is taking his Republican midterm rescue mission to Nebraska on Monday, campaigning alongside GOP Sen. Pete Ricketts, who is running against an independent candidate backed by national Democrats . It’s part of what the Republican president says is a 32-day b...
Speaking to a small gathering of supporters as the Ohio River flowed behind her, Dr. Amy Acton announced she was backing a three-year moratorium on permitting new injection wells for fracking in rural Washington County. It’s an issue that is top of mind for voters worried that th...
Hundreds of thousands of Texans, from Amarillo to Zavala, have come to rely on The Texas Tribune’s sample ballot tool to help them navigate elections. The tool has, for years, offered detailed information about who is running for statewide offices, in addition to providing person...
The San Antonio City Council approved a memorial street designation for drag performer and trans activist Erica Andrews. Memorial street designation for drag artist Erica Andrews approved by San Antonio City Council was first posted on October 4, 2026 at 12:00 pm. ©2021 " Sa...
Brazilians are voting Sunday in a pivotal presidential election dominated by incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his ideological opposite, Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro. Preelection polls suggested both have a chance of winning outright, but if neither gets a majority of the vote, a ...
Brazilians began voting Sunday in a high-stakes presidential election pitting incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva against Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, ideological opposites who are each seen as having a shot at an outright victory. If no candidate gets more than 50% of the vote, the to...
Voters in Bosnia cast ballots Sunday in a general election in which most are focused on everyday problems, while some mainstream politicians in the Balkan nation have whipped up war-era tensions that have kept the country divided since its brutal 1992-95 conflict . Around 3.4 mil...
President Donald Trump is promising more payments to voters just ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections — this time, to more than 20 million seniors, giving them $90 each to help pay for Medicare premiums. The announcement, made late Friday night by Trump on social media, comes af...
Front-runners in Brazil 's presidential race campaigned Saturday in the powerhouse state of Sao Paulo, where a fifth of the nation's vote is based, seeking to rally supporters and convince the undecided on the eve of Sunday's election . President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva , seeki...
Thousands of supporters of Serbia's populist leader, Aleksandar Vucic, packed the largest indoor arena in Belgrade on Saturday for the de facto launch of his campaign for prime minister that will culminate in a pivotal election set for Oct. 25. The early election, which polls sug...
The head of Tennessee's prison system is resigning, Gov. Bill Lee announced Saturday, the first major staff shake-up since Christa Pike's stunning failed execution left her unconscious and on a ventilator at a hospital. Frank Strada, commissioner of the Department of Correction, ...
Searchers found a “debris field” off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts, from an air ambulance that was carrying six people when it vanished over the Atlantic on Saturday during a flight from Bermuda to Boston, the U.S. Coast Guard said. Four Canadians and two Bermudian nation...
The announcement came on the eve of a protest march urging city officials to take a stronger stance against the planned ICE facility. San Antonio mayor backs legal action to halt East Side ICE facility was first posted on October 2, 2026 at 6:48 pm. ©2021 " San Antonio Repor...
The two missions, falling under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, will switch roles onboard the ISS before Crew-12 will fly back to Earth.
Unlike other states that allow same-day voter registration, Texans who want to participate in the 2026 midterms must be registered in advance. The voter registration deadline for the November midterm election is Monday, Oct. 5 was first posted on October 2, 2026 at 1:13 pm. ©...
The FBI is issuing a classified report to its workforce examining what it says are chapters from the bureau's history “where this institution fell short,” according to an internal message obtained Friday by The Associated Press. It was unclear what episodes from the FBI's past ar...
President Donald Trump rallied supporters in deep red Alabama Friday, returning to the place where he drew his first mega crowd, but a state that is hardly considered a top midterm battleground. With just weeks to go before elections that will determine control of Congress, Trump...
President Donald Trump is back on the campaign trail as he seeks to shore up lagging enthusiasm in the Republican Party ahead of next month’s midterm elections on Nov. 3. He attended a rally in Alabama on Friday and then travels to Ohio on Saturday. He could have his work cut out...
After Hurricane Helene barreled through Georgia in the fall of 2024, Sen. Jon Ossoff was the first high-ranking official on the ground in Valdosta, where he took in the damage and promised locals he'd help them get the federal recovery assistance they needed. “Just about every we...
Russian aerial attacks forced the partial closure Friday of three bridges over the Dnipro River in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital’s mayor said, in Moscow’s latest effort to disrupt life in the city. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s top diplomat said officials have received separate proposals fo...
Editor’s note: To help readers learn more about the candidates running for statewide seats, The Texas Tribune is sharing information about the Republican, Democratic and third-party candidates. For more information on midterms and the voting process, check out our election resour...
The long-anticipated influx of GOP money to boost U.S. Senate nominee Ken Paxton has tilted the battle for airtime in Republicans’ favor less than three weeks before early voting begins in Texas. But in an election where both parties are desperate to win over Latino voters, littl...
Manchester City has lodged a “comprehensive” appeal, the club confirmed Friday, following the publication of a report by an independent commission detailing large-scale financial rule-breaking by the Premier League giant in one of English soccer's biggest scandals. “The club’s fi...
John Evich, a commercial fisherman in Washington and Alaska, has voted for President Donald Trump three times, viewing him as someone who would fight for his industry. But these days, Evich is weary of the high cost of doing business at sea, with fuel prices rising and trade host...
With early voting already underway, a question worrying some voters is what role — if any — immigration enforcement officers might have at polling places through Election Day. Department of Homeland Security officials say they don't plan to send immigration enforcement officers e...
City Council approved to rename the lingering Splashtown Drive name on Thursday to honor an East Side NFL player five years after the waterpark shuttered. District 2 City Councilmember Jalen McKee-Rodriguez filed a request to rename Splashtown Drive after NFL legend Willie Mitche...
Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and opposition candidate Flávio Bolsonaro snubbed a planned debate ahead of the first round of the presidential election, depriving 158 million voters from watching them face off. A debate organized by TV Globo, the country’s most popu...
This story was originally published by the Fort Worth Report. You may read the original version here . Eight hours into a Saturday workshop, Fort Worth ISD’s Texas-appointed board members arrived at the question they had heard from parents for weeks : Would they rein in scripted ...
The U.S. military is dispatching roughly 9,000 troops aboard a group of ships to the Middle East, a U.S. official said Thursday. The bolstering of the American military presence comes as President Donald Trump warned anew that new strikes against Iran could be on the horizon. The...
U.S. employers added a disappointing 29,000 jobs and the unemployment rate ticked up last month, the government reported Friday, a month before voters go to the polls in pivotal midterm elections at a time of discontent over the high cost of living and the state of the economy. H...
A dentist and other passengers wrestled with a violent copilot . A plumber seized the controls of the plane as it plunged toward the desert . And that's after the captain managed to open the cockpit door while being stabbed, helping to save all 174 people on board the Israel-boun...
U.S. President Donald Trump says it's “possible” he may ramp up bombing of Iran after the Nov. 3 midterm elections and that he rejected Iran's latest peace offer because it's not good enough. Fighting between Houthi rebels and government forces overnight stirred fears that the Ir...
President Donald Trump hit the campaign trail Thursday in heavily Republican areas to shore up lagging enthusiasm in their party ahead of next month’s midterm elections. He could have his work cut out for him: Just 26% of U.S. adults approve of his handling of the economy overall...
A Russian drone struck a school in Kyiv on Thursday, city officials said, as the Ukrainian capital endured another day of relentless aerial attacks. Children and staff at the school were in shelters when the drone hit, Mayor Vitalii Klitschko said, and its warhead didn’t explode....
Political power in legislatures and governors' offices is at stake in the November elections in more than one-third of the states, creating down-ballot drama in the midterms that could have significant implications for President Donald Trump’s agenda. Outside groups aligned with ...
It was the first time SAWS had presented to city council since they pushed back against a rate increase proposal in June. SAWS made its case for a rate increase again to City Council. The vote is next week. was first posted on October 1, 2026 at 5:00 am. ©2021 " San Antonio ...
