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Watch the Red River Rivalry between No. 1 Texas, Oklahoma on KSAT
One of college football’s most storied rivalries returns this weekend as the Texas Longhorns take on the Oklahoma Sooners in the annual Red River Rivalry showdown. No. 1 Texas and Oklahoma will go head-to-head in their annual Dallas showdown. They will play at 2:30 p.m. Saturday,...
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Hegseth’s Texas tour featured faith-based military messaging — a trend that’s worrying some chaplains
As the U.S. military embraces religion, a former top Pentagon faith leader in San Antonio is worried the armed forces' new direction. Hegseth’s Texas tour featured faith-based military messaging — a trend that’s worrying some chaplains was first posted on October 8, 2026 at 8:00 ...
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Mamdani's Oct. 7 commemoration outrages supporters and critics of Israel
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani tried to thread a needle on the third anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks by condemning Hamas’ “horrific war crimes” and denouncing Israel’s “genocide” in Gaza. It did not go well. Instead, his comments further angered some Jewish critics who cons...
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Breast cancer can grow before you feel it. Advanced mammography can help find it sooner
During this Breast Cancer Awareness Month there’s a lot of hopeful news. Breast cancer detection, for example, has advanced dramatically in recent decades. According to the American Cancer Society , the U.S. breast cancer death rate fell 44% between 1989 and 2022. However, there ...
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Average long-term US mortgage rate at highest level in nearly 3 years after 7th weekly rise in a row
Mortgage rates marched higher for the seventh week in a row, driving the average long-term U.S. home loan rate to its highest level in nearly three years. The benchmark 30-year fixed-rate mortgage climbed to 7.40% from 7.28% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. On...
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When a rural Texas school district struggled with growth, charter schools filled the void
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. As rural schools face declining enrollment, shifting learning models and growing demands on limited resou...
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Man with a gun and knife is fatally shot by security at Nashville federal courthouse, police say
A man armed with a pistol and knife was fatally shot Thursday just inside the busy entrance at a federal courthouse in Tennessee’s largest city, authorities said. The man in his 40s was killed by security after he tried to fire his gun but failed and then pulled out a knife, said...
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Four astronauts return to Earth after eight months in space
Four astronauts returned to Earth from the International Space Station on Thursday after hurrying there eight months ago to replace an ailing colleague and his crew. SpaceX brought the U.S., French and Russian flyers back with a splashdown in the Pacific off the coast of Los Ange...
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‘He’s trying to divide’: What Bo French’s racist posts mean for him, Republicans and American politics
The impact of the posts by Bo French, the Republican candidate for the Texas Railroad Commission, could extend beyond his campaign, testing the GOP in Texas....
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Vance says Microsoft is being suspended from program to apply for green cards for H-1B visa workers
The Trump administration is suspending tech giant Microsoft from a program to apply for green cards for workers who come to the U.S. to live and work using an H-1B visa. Vice President JD Vance accuses the company of fraud. Vance said Thursday, “If you do the math, for every work...
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Texas senators discuss tightening school library book law
During Wednesday’s Texas Senate Education Committee meeting, lawmakers hinted at possibly strengthening a law designed to give parents more control over library materials....
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ICE has quietly used this warehouse as a detention facility all summer, neighbors say
Throughout the summer, rumors have been bubbling in North New Jersey that ICE has quietly been using a warehouse as a detention center. NPR investigated....
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Maricarmen, the 87-year-old woman whose eviction shook Spain, has died
María del Carmen Abascal, the 87-year-old woman whose eviction from her Madrid home sparked nationwide protests across Spain and unleashed a political crisis, died on Wednesday while hospitalized....
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Rogers and El-Sayed are set for their first debate in Michigan's Senate race after online sparring
Republican Mike Rogers and Democrat Abdul El-Sayed , competing for an open U.S. Senate seat in Michigan, are set for their first campaign debate Thursday after weeks of sparring both online and in advertisements that are flooding the state in one of the nation’s most closely watc...
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International Criminal Court judges say Philippine ex-President Rodrigo Duterte fit to stand trial
Judges at the International Criminal Court have ruled that former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is fit to stand trial on charges of crimes against humanity linked to the so-called war on drugs he waged while in office, the court announced Thursday. Duterte, 81, denies the ...
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Takeaways from President Donald Trump's rally in San Antonio
President Donald Trump rallied supporters at Freeman Coliseum in San Antonio, urging voters to back Republican candidates in closely watched races. Republican candidates Ken Paxton and Carlos de la Cruz joined Trump on stage during the rally. Paxton is running against Democrat Ja...
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The Latest: Trump interrupted by protesters as he campaigns for Paxton in US Senate race in Texas
President Donald Trump, facing protesters and a poor political climate, fought to rally Texas voters behind Senate candidate Ken Paxton on Wednesday night in a bid to stave off sweeping Democratic victories in the nation’s most populous red state. The president’s message was inte...
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Houthis claim new attack against airport in Saudi capital as witness reports evacuation
Several explosions were heard in Saudi Arabia's capital of Riyadh on Thursday, including a large blast at the city’s international airport, a witness told The Associated Press, a day after the kingdom said an attack on the airport killed one person and wounded others. The blasts ...
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Italy’s parliament gives final approval to Meloni’s electoral reform
Italy’s parliament gave final approval Thursday to a sweeping overhaul of the country’s electoral system, handing Premier Giorgia Meloni a key political victory while setting up a likely constitutional battle over the reform. The new law — dubbed by supporters as “Stabilicum”and ...
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San Antonio City Council to vote on proposed SAWS rate increase
City Council is expected to vote Thursday on a proposed San Antonio Water System rate increase that would raise residential bills and help pay for major water and sewer infrastructure upgrades across the city. If approved, the rate adjustments would run through 2030. The City Cou...
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PepsiCo sees strong overseas demand but a lackluster North American performance in the third quarter
PepsiCo reported better-than-expected revenue in the third quarter despite lackluster North American demand. Net revenue rose 5.6% to $25.27 billion in the July-September period. Wall Street had expected revenue of $24.95, according to analysts polled by FactSet. The company, bas...
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Rubio visits Portugal, praising a 'great ally' and looking to build deeper ties
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in Portugal on the last leg of a three-nation tour of NATO allies. Rubio arrived in Lisbon on Thursday for a brief stop on his return to Washington, a day after delivering a speech in the Greek capital of Athens urging European countries to ...
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Most Americans think artificial intelligence is developing too fast, a new AP-NORC poll finds
Worries around artificial intelligence cross party lines, with the vast majority of Americans saying the U.S. government should prioritize keeping AI under human control and protecting workers. A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds tha...
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A British man is bailed after his arrest in security incident at a US-run military base in England
A 22-year-old British man arrested on suspicion of plotting a terror attack following a security incident at a U.S.-run military air base in England has been released on bail, authorities said Thursday. The suspect, who was not named, is the seventh man bailed in the investigatio...
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Russian official seeks to turn the page on a suspected pneumonic plague case but questions remain
A Russian official on Thursday sought to turn the page on the suspicious death of a worker at a plague research lab in Siberia, saying a quarantine and other preventive measures had been completed with no dangerous pathogens detected. The statement by Irkutsk Gov. Igor Kobzev cam...