Japanese scientist Hideki Shirakawa, co-winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in chemistry for discovering and developing conductive polymers, has died. He was 90. The discovery by Shirakawa and two fellow American scientists, Alan Heeger and Alan MacDiarmid, demonstrated that plastic could conduct elec...
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Participants sampled hundreds of craft and premium beers along other beverages from breweries around the world. The post Everyone we saw having a blast at the San Antonio Beer Festival 2026 appeared first on San Antonio Current ....
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A military service member was hospitalized after falling while rappelling from the Alamodome rafters before the UTSA-Navy football game. Airman dies in rappelling accident at Alamodome before UTSA-Navy game was first posted on October 18, 2026 at 8:46 am. ©2021 " San Antonio...
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Standing in the doorway of his home near the corn and soybean fields that blanket this stretch of northeast Iowa, Dave Roethler doesn't know what happened to the Donald Trump he supported during his first presidency. Trump did a “heck of a good job” back then, the 70-year-old sch...
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Chris Martinez feels like Donald Trump has made a fool of him. The 28-year-old maintenance technician from Casa Grande, Arizona, voted for the Republican president expecting to get a thriving economy and no wars . Instead, gas prices are so high that Martinez returned one of his ...
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Alejandro Davidovich Fokina rallied from a set and a break down to beat Rafael Jodar 1-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4 and win the Shanghai Masters on Sunday, securing his third title of the year and biggest yet of his career. The 25th-seeded Spaniard had lost the first five finals of his career...
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FORECAST HIGHLIGHTS CHILLY SUNDAY START: 40s for many locations, coolest in the Hill Country WARMING THIS WEEK: 80s return Monday and Tuesday, with upper 80s to near 90 possible later in the week STAYING DRY: No rain is expected through the extended forecast FORECAST ANOTHER CRIS...
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Police arrested at least 1,800 people across France after violent groups clashed with officers and looted shops during nationwide demonstrations that drew hundreds of thousands who denounced rising living costs and poor conditions in schools. Authorities said masked groups on Sat...
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This article was reported in collaboration with The San Antonio Express-News and Big Local News at Stanford University as part of The New York Times’s Local Investigations Fellowship. Over the past decade, school districts across Texas have sought to make classrooms safer by swel...
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Foot traffic may be slow because of recent construction, but loyal customers give Market Square gorditas rave reviews. Gorditas on the grill: Market Square vendors channel spirit of ‘Chili Queens’ was first posted on October 18, 2026 at 5:00 am. ©2021 " San Antonio Report "....
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Ukrainian strikes set an oil export terminal and a depot ablaze in St. Petersburg on Sunday as Kyiv launched more than 1,000 drones at Russia in one of its largest aerial attacks of the war. The strikes came amid deepening tensions between Ukraine and Washington , with U.S. Presi...
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Pope Leo XIV thanked thousands of faithful in St. Peter's Square on Sunday for their prayers while he was hospitalized for an operation to remove a malignant tumor, and said he plans to gradually return to his usual duties. The crowd erupted in cheers when the pontiff showed hims...
