President Donald Trump is set to address the nation on Thursday night on topics he said will include elections and voting machines, suggesting he is likely to revisit some of the unproven claims he has previously made about Republican losses, particularly his own in 2020.Trump’s ...
Election officials in Arizona's most populous county reached an agreement this week on how to jointly oversee the vote, ending a prolonged legal battle.Republican Maricopa County Recorder Justin Heap sued the predominantly GOP board of supervisors in June 2025, alleging it illega...
The complaint to the Texas Secretary of State comes after a Texas Tribune and ProPublica investigation that found Paxton may have been registered to vote at an address in which he no longer lived....
More than half the House Democrats voted Wednesday to strip $3.3 billion in U.S. aid from Israel, the most substantial signal yet that once rock-solid bipartisan support for the country is disintegrating in the aftermath of its war in Gaza that has killed thousands of Palestinian...
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The U.S. Mint has begun producing a new $1 coin bearing President Donald Trump's face to help celebrate America’s 250th birthday, the Treasury Department said Wednesday.The final design for the commemorative coin, being released in the fall, was approved earlier this year by the ...
For months, Attorney General Ken Paxton and Sen. John Cornyn battered each other in a nasty and expensive race for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination in Texas. Now that Paxton has emerged victorious, GOP leaders from Texas to Washington are urging intraparty peace and unity, w...
House Republicans on Wednesday unveiled a $95 billion package focused on boosting defense, aiding farmers and enacting stricter voter registration rules, a sequel to the massive tax and spending cut bill that President Donald Trump signed into law last year.The 47-page bill, call...
President Donald Trump has endorsed MyPillow founder Mike Lindell for Minnesota governor, praising him as “one of America’s greatest and most hard working Patriots” and giving formal backing to a fellow election denier a day before the Republican president delivers a national add...
Former President Joe Biden will publish a memoir this fall, publisher Little, Brown and Company told The Associated Press.“Promise Me, America,” which Biden says will touch upon everything from the economy to his decision to drop his bid for reelection, is scheduled to come out N...
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen went to Kyiv on Wednesday to mark Ukraine’s annual Statehood Day, pledging continued military and financial support for the country's independence as it holds out against Russia’s 4-year-old full-scale invasion.Ukraine’s sovereig...
In response to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that preserves birthright citizenship, Texas officials are wielding their authority to clamp down on birth tourism, primarily through investigating or suing health providers. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission has requested...
A federal appeals court on Tuesday ended more than 60 years of federal oversight of a Louisiana school system that had been ordered to eradicate segregation.The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals lifted a decades-old desegregation mandate for the Concordia Parish School Board, han...
President Donald Trump will deliver a primetime address this week that he says will include a focus on elections, suggesting he could revisit long-debunked conspiracy theories about his 2020 defeat to Democrat Joe Biden. The speech comes as he's escalated calls for Republicans to...
HOUSTON — A week after Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was killed by a federal immigration agent, residents ranging from teachers to business owners filled City Hall on Tuesday to press Houston Mayor John Whitmire and the City Council to demand answers from U.S. Immigration and Customs En...
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Fresh off its first-class flight from Glasgow, it received a reception befitting a visiting dignitary: a bagpiper in full regalia playing inside Boston Logan International Airport. Waiting to greet it were diplomats, the governor and Boston’s mayor.The guest of honor? An orange t...
There will be no turning back the clock if the House has its way.The House passed a bill Tuesday that would make daylight saving time permanent. Proponents, including the White House, argued the change would provide more daylight during the times that Americans are most active. T...
Billionaire Elon Musk likely broke Wisconsin law when he handed out $1 million checks to voters in the 2025 state Supreme Court election, a bipartisan panel has found.The Wisconsin Elections Commission last week referred two complaints to the Brown County district attorney's offi...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has pledged to crack down on “birth tourism” after a right-wing blog reported on a mysterious website advertising “birth packages” to foreigners wanting to have their children in the Lone Star State. The Health and Human Services Commission has since referr...
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A U.S.-Russian space crew blasted off successfully Tuesday on a mission to the International Space Station.NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Russian crewmates Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina lifted off from the Russia-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz M...
Housing affordability is a top complaint for Americans, including for Texans and San Antonio residents. That’s why a bipartisan federal affordable housing bill was signed into law Saturday, making some sweeping changes.Experts, such as Ed Zapata, chairman of the San Antonio Board...
When Sen. Lindsey Graham’s phone number popped up on his call list, Sen. Chuck Schumer said his heart skipped a beat.It was shortly after the 2012 presidential election and Republicans had lost badly to President Barack Obama.Graham was calling with an outlandish proposal — “gett...
Prominent GOP leaders are sounding the alarm about Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s U.S. Senate campaign as the scandal-tarred Republican faces new controversy and his Democratic rival breezed past him in fundraising. Recent media reports have again highlighted accusations abo...
Inside a packed San Antonio Shrine Auditorium during the last weekend of June, a multi-generational crowd of collectors gathered for the San Antonio Collectors Expo with a mission: to buy, sell and showcase their prized cardboard investments. People of all ages swarmed the floor...
Expected to go as the first pick in the amateur draft, Roch Cholowsky submitted a video to Major League Baseball with the correct pronunciation of his last name.For the record, the name is pronounced chil-OW’-skee.Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred still botched the pronunciation ...
The San Antonio Board of Realtors reports the market has become balanced between buyers and sellers.
President Trump says he is refusing to sign the bill without Congress first passing his sweeping voter ID bill.
President Trump refused to sign the bill without Congress first passing his sweeping voter ID bill.
Council member Aaron Dahl died after serving more than 15 years in Place 5, according to the City of Live Oak.Dahl moved to Live Oak in 2003, according to his city bio. He joined the planning and zoning board in 2010 before his May 2011 election to Place 5. He founded his own arc...
President Donald Trump has chosen not to sign a sweeping housing affordability bill on Friday, in protest of Congress not approving a strict voter ID bill that does not have enough support to pass.“I will not sign the Housing Bill, which has been fully approved by Congress and se...
President Donald Trump has ousted members of a bipartisan federal election commission that resisted his efforts to require would-be voters to document their U.S. citizenship before registering. The White House on Friday confirmed the executive action against members of the Electi...
Mexico seeks criminal investigations for ICE-related deaths; New poll shows mixed feelings on Mayor Jones' first year; SpaceX could launch AI data centers into orbit...
Calling into Gov. Greg Abbott's guest-hosted Hannity radio show, the Republican senator said Talarico is “charming” enough to win over voters “who may not be paying close attention to the issues.”...
A survey of more than 1,000 San Antonio and Bexar County residents by UT San Antonio shows Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones is still building her reputation among voters....
Wally Funk, an aviation pioneer who was the oldest woman to launch into space, has died. She was 87.Funk died Wednesday at her apartment in an assisted living facility in the Dallas and Fort Worth suburb of Grapevine, Texas, Grapevine City Councilwoman Duff O'Dell said Thursday. ...
“Suppose a federal officer, while he was working, shot the mayor,” a legal expert said. “Is everyone going to claim that he can't be prosecuted for murder just because he was on duty at the time? No, of course not.”...
A commission created by San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones released a report on Wednesday highlighting ways to increase voter turnout in the city and county.San Antonio mayor’s commission on voting issues recommendations was first posted on July 9, 2026 at 3:00 pm.©2021 "San...
Recent polling from The Texas Politics Project suggests Democratic U.S. Senate nominee James Talarico is performing better with Black voters than his predecessors were at this point in their campaigns....
CineFestival San Antonio, the nation’s longest-running Latinx film festival, is back this week for its 47th incarnation. Devoted to showcasing Latin American feature films and shorts alike, CineFestival provides a reference point for cultural identity, politically charged storyte...
Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones unveiled a set of nine recommendations Wednesday designed to improve San Antonio’s civic engagement and boost flagging voter turnout numbers. The Mayor’s Commission on Voting, an informal task force Jones convened this spring, issued the recommendations, wh...
SAPD names a new interim chief; Voting commission makes nine recommendations to increase voter turnout; Mexico threatens legal action over ICE shooting...
Over the last month, Democratic socialists have notched victories in the liberal strongholds of New York City, Washington, D.C., and Denver. Now Francesca Hong, a single mother who has worked as a dishwasher and line cook, is trying to do the same with her campaign for governor i...
Today @ 10:30 a.m., we sample the selection from Chicken Salad Chick as they open their new location in Boerne.Plus, check out Perrito Lindo for all your summer dog must-haves. Our producer, Robert Morin, takes us inside for a tour.Plus, how would you like to never visit a dentis...
Jonathan "Jon" Melendez, a grassroots engagement director at Americans for Prosperity, was among 15 candidates who applied for a temporary appointment after BCAD board member Robert “Bob” Bruce died in March.Organizer from the conservative Americans for Prosperity nominated to se...
Nominations opened Thursday in a Labour Party election to replace Keir Starmer as Britain’s prime minister, a contest in which there is expected to be just one candidate.Former Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham will be collecting signatures from Labour lawmakers, and needs at...
Authorities in southern China said Thursday that 39 people have died in flooding from Tropical Storm Maysak.Most of the deaths were related to the breach of a dam in the city of Nanning in Guangxi region, which claimed 26 lives, said Ding Wei, the city's vice mayor, at a news bri...
President Donald Trump's plans to build a skyline-altering arch in the nation's capital is getting another review from the federal commission whose approval he needs, but the agency's staff says the project should be revised before it gets the go-ahead. The National Capital Plann...
A group created by Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones to find ways to increase voter turnout has delivered a list of recommendations to improve the wider idea of what it calls “civic participation” in San Antonio.The nine recommendations from the Mayor’s Commission on Voting range from trans...
It looks like John Deere owners can soon feel free to fix their own machines.The Federal Trade Commission and attorneys general from several states secured a right-to-repair settlement Wednesday with agriculture equipment giant Deere & Co. — commonly known as John Deere — that re...
A Bexar County commissioner is criticizing fellow county leaders after an agenda item focused on the county jail and mental health resources was postponed until August — arguing the delay comes as the jail continues to face overcrowding and other ongoing challenges.Commissioner G...
A crisis nursery is seen as a valuable asset to protect local children from harm without more intrusive state involvement.
Bexar County commissioners approved a $10 million investment Tuesday to renovate a military facility that will support the Defense Health Agency’s operations at Fort Sam Houston. The project is expected to help the Falls Church, Virginia-based agency consolidate several leased sp...
A three-judge panel on Wednesday denied a request from the Kennedy Center's board to keep President Donald Trump's name on the institution while the board appeals an earlier ruling that dubbed the name change illegal and had it rescinded.It's another setback for the board of trus...
Crews worked through the night to shore up a massive, under-construction apartment building in Manhattan after some of its columns buckled and floors sagged, triggering widespread evacuations and street closures over concerns about a collapse. Mayor Zohran Mamdani confirmed Wedne...
With Graham Platner's campaign teetering from an allegation of sexual assault, there's no shortage of people arguing that the 41-year-old Maine oysterman and progressive political neophyte was always too risky for a key Senate race. However, it's likely more candidates will follo...
A San Antonio City Council staffer the mayor publicly suggested may have leaked information about her security has left City Hall for the private sector.District 7 Chief of Staff James Branch’s last day with the City of San Antonio was Monday, according to a letter Branch provide...
Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark wanted to talk Tuesday about the league's upcoming season, not the Brendan Sorsby gambling saga at Texas Tech that led to a lot of legal wrangling and a since-dismissed court order that had sent shockwaves through college sports. Even though that...
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