Early morning rain pounded a large swath of southwest Texas and the Hill Country, triggering urgent flash flood warnings, water rescues and calls to seek higher ground in already drenched areas Thursday. Forecasters warned of especially critical flood emergencies in Uvalde County; along the Guada...
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WATCH LIVE COVERAGE ABOVEFORECAST HIGHLIGHTSKerr & Kendall County Flash Flood Emergency along Guadalupe RiverUvalde County Flash Flood Emergency Gillespie and Blanco County Flash Flood Emergency along Pedernales RiverExtreme rainfall totals ranging from 8″ to 12″ over past 24 hoursIN SAN ANTONIO:...
The Trump administration is reviving a rule that could deny green cards to immigrants who use public benefits that could include food stamps, Medicaid, housing vouchers and others. The policy, known as “public charge,” appeared on Thursday in the Federal Register and will be formally published on...
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.BOCA CHICA BEACH — As a child, Christopher Basaldu, a lifelong resident of Brownsville, would take family trips to Boca Chi...
The conflict between Iran and the United States has intensified in recent days and an interim deal to end the fighting has collapsed less than a month after it was signed.The Memorandum of Understanding was supposed to halt all military operations and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial waterw...
The U.S. Treasury last year swelled with revenue from President Donald Trump’s double-digit taxes on imports from almost every country on earth.But the money dried up after the Supreme Court struck down the biggest and boldest of Trump’s tariffs in February.The question now is: Can the president’...
The San Antonio Film Festival, the largest event of its kind in South Texas, opens next Tuesday, bringing six days of films from around the world packaged in an approachable experience. Filmmaking is an insular world in which contacts are paramount. SAFILM understands this and intentionally craft...
A shelter-in-place remains in effect for Uvalde County as an excessive amount of rain continues to fall. In Uvalde County, over 10 inches of rain have fallen Thursday on top of the showers for the last couple of days. The severe weather has caused all major highways and many Uvalde County streets...
San Antonio music fans shouldn’t let the recent precipitation keep them indoors. This week’s options include country icon Dwight Yoakam, Grupo Frontera’s arena-sized regional Mexican party and enough crushing doom metal to make forget the dampness altogether. Thursday, July 16 Hemisfair Summer Se...
A man was hit and killed by a vehicle early Thursday morning on the far West Side, according to San Antonio police. Officers responded to the incident just before 5 a.m. in the 5000 block of Spurs Ranch, which is located near U.S. Highway 90. According to an SAPD preliminary report, a witness tra...
Authorities arrested a San Antonio police officer Wednesday on charges of injuring a child and child endangerment, department officials said. Bless Achor, a six-year SAPD veteran, turned himself in to the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office after learning a warrant had been issued for his arrest, accor...
The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) issued a CLEAR Alert for a 28-year-old man last seen on the West Side.According to DPS, Zeus Dimas was last seen Wednesday in the 2400 block of Rivas Street, which is located south of Culebra Road.Dimas is 5 feet, 3 inches tall and weighs around 140 pou...
Officials under President Donald Trump want to make it easier for men to get a prescription for testosterone, the latest shift in a decades-long debate over the benefits and risks of replacing the hormone that affects sex drive, mood and other health factors.The move, backed by Health Secretary R...
Nearly two weeks after the one-year mark of the deadly Hill Country floods, a Kerr County wildlife rescue facility was torn apart for the second time. The Buck Wild Animal Rescue and Wildlife Rehab facility, which is located in the 200 block of Lazy Creek Road in Ingram, shared videos of how this...
The U.S. government has designated two new Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. They are the Juárez Cartel, on the border with Texas, and Los Viagras, a criminal group from the western state of Michoacán. The Federal Register, the U.S. government's gazette, published the designatio...
The FBI says parents should be involved in their children’s online lives after a San Antonio man was sentenced in a child exploitation case. FBI issues warning to parents after San Antonio member of violent online network sentenced was first posted on July 16, 2026 at 9:00 am.©2021 "San Anto...
When wildfires burn, smoke can travel long distances and degrade air quality far away, posing risks to those breathing it.Fires burning in one state can make the air worse several states away, and wildfires in Canada can send smoke into U.S. cities.Here’s what to know about taking precautions aga...
Two of the eight men indicted in an alleged drone and sniper plot to attack President Donald Trump's UFC cage-fighting show on the White House lawn pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal conspiracy charges.Clothed in jail garb and shackled, Tycen Proper, 19, of Danville, Ohio, and Chandler Scaggs...
Shoppers slowed their spending in June from May, as they spent less to fill their gas tank because of falling gas prices.But the report, released by the Commerce Department on Thursday, showed consumers' continued resilience despite ongoing economic uncertainty as they bought cars and took advant...
Filings for unemployment benefits fell last week to the lowest level in 10 weeks as U.S. layoffs remain historically low.The number of Americans applying for jobless aid in the week ending July 11 dropped by 8,000 to 208,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That's well below the 219,000 n...
President Donald Trump is set to address the nation Thursday at 9 p.m. ET on topics he said will include elections and voting machines, suggesting he could revisit long-debunked conspiracy theories about his 2020 defeat to Democrat Joe Biden. The speech comes as he’s escalated his calls for Repub...
Flash Flood Emergencies remain in effect in parts of Kerr and Uvalde counties as life-threatening flooding continues across the Texas Hill Country and much of South Central Texas.
There has been “one loss of life” in the catastrophic flooding sweeping across Texas Hill Country, Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday.Drones and helicopters are flying over the region still recovering from devastating floods just a year ago, the governor said.“Our number one focus is saving lives,” A...
Portions of U.S. Highway 90 in Uvalde County are closed Thursday morning due to flooding.In Sabinal, Mayor Erik Gomez posted on social media that both directions are closed.The highway is also closed west of the City of Uvalde.Due to ongoing heavy rain, there’s flooding along the Highway 90 corri...
KSAT has crews in the Hill Country and Bexar County as severe weather continues to affect South Central Texas. At the moment, Flash Flood Emergencies are in effect for Kerr and Uvalde counties. >> Flash Flood Emergencies and heavy rain targeting saturated areasRiver levels are rising quickly as h...
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San Antonio police officers shot and killed a man early Thursday morning on the East Side, SAPD acting chief Jesse Salame said. The shooting happened around 2:25 a.m. in the 800 block of Hammond Avenue, which is located near Rigsby Avenue. A probationary officer and a field training officer notic...
Today @ 10:30 a.m., a local, family-owned hot dog cart grows into something much bigger, a magician gets us ready for an exciting week at the Magic Saloon & myth-busting summer pregnancy questions.Hot Diggity Dog - we’re celebrating National Hot Dog month with Home Team Hot Dogs. It started out a...
Ask Claude to make a pamphlet critical of President Donald Trump or Britain's King Charles III, and Anthropic's chatbot would oblige. Prompted to do the same for Thailand's king, Saudi Arabia's crown prince or China's leader, and the artificial intelligence model declined.It is a key finding from...
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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.TEXARKANA — More than a dozen East Texas counties are working to create a groundwater conservation district that would prev...
No deaths have been reported in Kerr County as floodwaters once again inundated parts of the area Thursday morning — prompting water rescues, evacuations and widespread road closures as emergency crews respond to another dangerous flooding event along the Guadalupe River.On Thursday morning, Kerr...
An ACLU report looks at widespread use of force in immigration enforcement in the first year of President Trump's return to office. Recent fatal shootings in Texas and Maine have renewed scrutiny on the agency's tactics.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shook up his wartime government, drawing thousands into the streets Thursday across Ukraine to protest the ouster of his youthful defense minister — seen as an innovator of the country’s successful drone technology but who clashed with the traditional military establ...
The British government on Thursday urged FIFA to investigate Argentina’s team after players celebrating their 2-1 win over England in the World Cup semifinals posed with a banner that claimed sovereignty over the contested Falkland Islands.During post-match celebrations Wednesday in Atlanta, Arge...
Japanese communications company Fujitsu is leading a major push in artificial intelligence using Nvidia’s technology, bringing together what it said was the best in Japan’s manufacturing prowess in robotics with AI.The technology area known as “physical AI” refers to smart, futuristic robots that...
Major Taiwan computer chipmaker TSMC said Thursday it plans to spend another $100 billion on expanding its manufacturing capacity in the United States. The latest commitment appears to bring the company’s total pledges for investment in U.S. chipmaking to $265 billion. It also raised its annual r...
Computer chipmakers and other winners of the artificial-intelligence boom are slumping again Thursday and weighing on stock markets worldwide. They're drowning out strength for most of the rest of Wall Street, leaving U.S. stock indexes mixed. The S&P 500 fell 0.2%, a day after it pulled within 0...
An Italian court on Thursday convicted the former CEO of Italy's main highway operator and 31 others in the 2018 Genoa highway bridge collapse that sent vehicles plunging and killed 43 people, a disaster that exposed serious lapses in the maintenance of Italian infrastructure. Dozens of family me...
More than 500 people are feared dead after reports that two boats carrying members of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya minority have capsized in the Bay of Bengal, officials said Thursday.According to preliminary information, the two boats left Myanmar’s western state of Rakhine in late June carryin...
Actor Sam Neill died from pneumonia and will be honored at a private family memorial at his New Zealand farm later, his agent told The Associated Press on Thursday. Neill's family had earlier announced the actor known for “Jurassic Park,” “The Piano” and other films died Monday in Sydney.His agen...
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