Subscribe to The Y’all — a weekly dispatch about the people, places and policies defining Texas, produced by Texas Tribune journalists living in communities across the state. NEWTON — Roughly a billion federal dollars are pouring into Deep East Texas to improve access to high speed internet. Now,...
government
Nearly 4.5 million Texans cast a ballot in the first seven days of early voting — outpacing the turnout rate of the 2022 midterm election but slightly behind 2018, when Democrat Beto O’Rourke fell 2.6 points shy of toppling U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz . From Oct. 19 through Sunday, 23.4% ...
government
MCKINNEY — For much of her life, Liz Slack voted Republican up and down the ballot. A longtime resident of Collin County — the hometown of U.S. Senate nominee Ken Paxton — Slack said she looks like a typical conservative: a Baylor University alum who goes to Bible study every wee...
schools
High 5 is one of Adrian Bustillos' first and most dramatic overhauls of SAISD. The Report went inside a school to see what it looks like in practice. A look inside ‘High 5,’ a teaching strategy SAISD is hoping will turn academics around and keep state intervention away was first ...
Local
FORECAST HIGHLIGHTS SPOTTY SHOWERS: Today’s rain chance sits at 30% HEAVY RAIN WEST OF SA ON THU: Lighter, scattered activity for San Antonio HALLOWEEN: Still looking nice, mild, likely quiet FORECAST SPOTTY SHOWERS TODAY, WEDNESDAY An influx of moisture is making things a bit mo...
safety
Two men were charged Tuesday with national security offenses over a suspected plot against RAF Fairford, a U.S.-run military air base in England, police and prosecutors said. British nationals Mohmed Ahmad Abdulkarim and Nouman Essghir, both aged 24 and from London, were charged ...
News
The fast-moving Ebola outbreak in Congo has reached 10,000 confirmed cases, government data showed Tuesday, as health authorities race to slow the spread of the disease in multiple African countries . It is the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history and nearly half of the 10,0...
News
French soccer star Kylian Mbappé's face appears in ads across China, from subway stations to elevators, but now at least three companies are cutting ties with the national team captain after he made some comments apparently referring to Mao Zedong, the founding leader of Communis...
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World stocks were mixed Tuesday ahead of major corporate earnings reports and central-bank decisions. In early European trading, Germany’s DAX slipped 0.1% to 25,373.71, while the CAC 40 in Paris dropped 0.3% to 7,824.83. Britain’s FTSE 100 fell 1% to 10,664.58. The future for th...
government
Israelis were voting Tuesday in a tense national election widely seen as a referendum on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's leadership since the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel and the wars that have since shaken the Middle East. Israelis vote for parties , which then f...
government
Environmentalists, Indigenous groups and climate scientists are celebrating the reelection in Brazil of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva , which brings the prospect of a continued focus on stopping the illegal cutting of the Amazon, the largest rainforest in the world. But sup...
News
Two former FBI officials charged with lying to Congress about their participation in investigations involving Hunter Biden , the son of former President Joe Biden, are due back in court Tuesday in a case their lawyers have described as baseless and politically motivated. The pros...
schools
Cheers and tears filled Harlandale High School on Monday afternoon when San Antonio Spurs guard Devin Vassell surprised student-athletes with new shoes and a major donation to the school’s athletic department. Vassell teamed up with Dick’s Sporting Goods to provide shoes for the ...
