How federal prison guards stop lawsuits before they start
Prisoners are allowed to file complaints about mistreatment — but doing so often comes with retaliation. That's according to an investigation by NPR and The Marshall Project.
Prisoners are allowed to file complaints about mistreatment — but doing so often comes with retaliation. That's according to an investigation by NPR and The Marshall Project.
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If there’s one group likely to be experiencing the most consternation over inflation and economic uncertainty, it’s those who have just retired or are about to. To make it through this period with their sanity intact, they should focus on what they can control.Assess spending ratePeople who have ...
In April 2024, the Biden administration cleared the way for more than 4 million low-wage workers to collect overtime pay. People earning less than $58,656 were to be paid time and a half if they worked over 40 hours a week, a shift that would put $1.5 billion into workers’ pockets, according to t...
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.ODESSA — Mexico and the U.S. may frequently spar, but the two nations are bound by energy — networks of pipelines that stre...
Of the 14 independent candidates who originally filed to run for office in Bexar County this year, only one managed to collect enough signatures to get his name on the November ballot. Defense attorney Jason Wolff is waging an independent bid for District Attorney, against Democrat Luz Elena Chap...
FORECAST HIGHLIGHTSFLOOD WARNINGS: Medina, Bandera, Uvalde Counties through 8amMORNING COMMUTE: Rain, wet roads possible in San AntonioFLOOD RISK CONTINUES: Flash flooding likely in spots through Thursday AMFORECASTTODAYFlooding is underway for areas along Highway 90 from Hondo to Uvalde and nort...
San Antonio residents shared ideas and desires for a sports and entertainment district at the first of 10 planned listening sessions.The Spurs want input on a downtown arena district. San Antonians are eager to weigh in. was first posted on July 13, 2026 at 11:38 pm.©2021 "San Antonio Report...
The U.S. launched strikes on Iran early Tuesday, hours after President Donald Trump vowed to reinstate an American blockade of Iranian ports and charge ships for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran responded with attacks on Middle East allies of the U.S.The actions leave in tatters an...
Dangerous. Brazen. Unprecedented. Uncharted territory. Reaction in the media world has been swift and severe to the issue of subpoenas to five New York Times journalists who reported on security questions involving the new, Qatari-gifted Air Force One — a legal maneuver seen as a troubling escala...
The death toll from a huge fire in a Bangkok music bar has increased to 30, officials said Tuesday.More than 70 people were injured, with 24 of them still in critical condition, according to a statement by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration.The blaze at the Rong Beer Na Ladprao bar, the city...
Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett will make a rare appearance before Congress Tuesday, weeks after the end of a historic term.The justices are appearing before a House appropriations panel as the court seeks millions of dollars to beef up security amid a rise in threats to ...
Oil prices surged Tuesday as fighting intensified in the Middle East, while world shares were mixed after markets in Tokyo and Seoul rebounded from early losses. The price of Brent crude climbed 4.1% to $86.73 a barrel after soaring nearly 10% on Monday. U.S. benchmark crude was up 3.1% at $80.55...
President Donald Trump is welcoming Iraq's new prime minister to the White House on Tuesday after strongly backing the political neophyte in his bid for office.Ali al-Zaidi, a businessman with no political background, emerged as a consensus candidate in Iraq after months of deadlock over the prem...
Florida was again preparing Tuesday to execute one of its oldest death row prisoners in history, a 74-year-old convicted murderer who is one of three older inmates set to die in the span of a month in the nation’s busiest death penalty state.Dennis Sochor, who has been on death row since the 1980...
President Donald Trump has been trying to force Iran to fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz for months, turning to everything from airstrikes and naval blockades to negotiations and threats to destroy a “whole civilization.”But restoring oil tanker traffic in the vital Middle East shipping corridor...
China’s exports accelerated in June, jumping 27% from a year earlier thanks partly to the boom in artificial intelligence, the customs agency said Tuesday. The increase in exports in June was much better than economists had expected. Exports rose 19.4% year-on-year in May.Imports in June surged 3...
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A relaxing getaway can quickly become dangerous when impactful weather moves in.With heavy rain in the forecast and the threat of flash flooding, cabin owners, resort operators and emergency crews along the Frio River are urging visitors to stay alert and prepared.>> Click here for the latest for...
Jordan Walker wore his Cardinals hat backward, chewed a big wad of bubble gum and wore the top of his jersey splayed open as he dug in for his final Home Run Derby swing. The picture of Cardinals cool, Walker chased down Kyle Schwarber, shut up a rambunctious Philly crowd and introduced himself t...
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 of Realtors, hav...
The devastating explosions on Preston Hollow Drive in April left neighbors uneasy staying in their homes.Jimmy Aldape, who lives close to the intersection of Preston Hollow Drive and Preston Court Drive, said he is on edge now but had a sense of ease after an inspection of his home following the ...
An AMBER Alert for 7-month-old Ozana Cisneros was discontinued, the Texas Department of Public Safety announced Monday.Despite the alert being discontinued, San Antonio Police Department acting Police Chief Jesse Salame told KSAT “Ozana Cisneros remains actively missing.”“The alert has not produc...
The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office uncovered a cockfighting ring in Floresville during a search for stolen firearms, the agency announced Monday.On April 28, BCSO received a report of more than 100 firearms stolen. The man who made the report estimated the weapons were worth more than $200,000.The...
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.Harris County officials still don’t know the names of the agents who were present when an ICE officer shot and killed Loren...
The Bexar County District Attorney’s Office on Monday dismissed the criminal case against former San Antonio police officer James Brennand — just one hour after a judge denied prosecutors’ request to postpone his trial.The dismissal comes nearly four years after Brennand shot then-17-year-old Eri...
The Bexar County District Attorney’s Office on Monday dismissed a first-degree felony assault charge against James Brennand, who lost his job as a San Antonio police officer after he opened fire on an unarmed teenager in a McDonald’s parking lot. A grand jury indicted Brennand on an assault by a ...
Nearly a week after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston, important details are still unclear.Federal authorities have offered limited information about the July 7 shooting beyond saying Salgado Araujo tried to hit an agent with h...
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Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed by an ICE agent last week during what the agency has called a "targeted enforcement operation” in Houston’s East End.
The San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum (SAAACAM) is a nonprofit in San Antonio working to save and share the stories of African descendants across San Antonio and the Southwest —history that’s often been left out of the public record.They do this in a grassroots, community-...
Residents and small businesses across the Corpus Christi region subsidized big industrial plants' water bills for years, city officials say. The companies are now fighting to keep the subsidy.
Local immigrant women shared stories of detention, family separation and fear during an Austin vigil for Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
President Donald Trump on Monday sharply reduced the size of two national monuments in Utah, undoing protections established by his Democratic predecessors on public lands that are sacred among many Native Americans.Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in southern Utah have...
State Sen. Roland Gutierrez, D-San Antonio, sent a letter late last week to the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) demanding it detail the extent of its involvement in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent’s fatal shooting of a Houston man. An ICE agent fired on Lorenzo Salgado Araujo...
Prosecutors dropped the case against officer James Brennand after a judge denied a request to delay the trial while investigators examine new allegations involving key witness, Erik Cantu. The charge could be refiled.
Forecasted rain chances this week for the San Antonio area have people in one Northwest Side neighborhood on edge.Homeowners who live along Dhaka View, not far from Grissom Road, spent the day Monday cleaning up the mess created by weekend flooding.>> Click here for the latest forecastThey say th...
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Gina Hinojosa on Monday blamed her Republican opponent, Gov. Greg Abbott, for Texas falling from No. 2 to No. 4 in CNBC’s annual Top States for Business rankings. CNBC attributed Texas’ step backward in the ranking to the state’s poor quality of life, which the ...
Philadelphia Phillies slugger Bryce Harper said he did not know a Cameo video he recorded would be used by FanDuel as a reward for a VIP customer who later sued the sportsbook, saying it took advantage of his gambling addiction.The Philadelphia Inquirer reported last week that a fan named Terry T...
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 — “getting the band back...
An accused kitten killer was sentenced Monday to five years of deferred adjudication on two felony charges. Ryan Berlanga, 31, took the sentence as a part of a plea deal. Berlanga was seen on footage strangling a kitten to death on Nov. 9, 2025, at an apartment complex in the 7400 block of Yarrow...
The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office detained at least seven people Monday at a suspected chop shop, which is defined by the Department of Justice as an illegal facility that disassembles vehicles and sells parts for profit.At approximately 8:34 a.m., a man reported his white truck stolen, a BCSO sp...
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