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KSAT viewers shared photos of lightning, street flooding and rain gauges as storms moved through the San Antonio area on Tuesday. There are ongoing Flash Flood Warnings across Edwards, Kinney, Medina, and Uvalde counties from torrential rains. Some of these areas have seen over 6...
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By altering the definition of the word "harm" as used by the Endangered Species Act, the Trump administration may limit how wildlife is protected in the United States. Environmental groups are suing....
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Erik Cantu — the young man shot multiple times by a former San Antonio police officer almost four years ago — was arrested and charged with felony evading arrest at around 9 p.m. Monday night, the Express-News reports. Cantu’s arrest came mere hours after the Bexar County Distric...
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There have been 20 confirmed cases of the intestinal illness so far this year.
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Annual inflation hit 3.5% in June, down from May's more than three-year high — but the resumption of the conflict with Iran threaten to push up inflation as energy costs once again spike....
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A China-born American seismologist has been detained in China without trial for nearly two years, an advocacy group advising the family said Tuesday, a revelation that came a couple of months before Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to visit the U.S.The relatives of Youlin...
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The writer E. Jean Carroll has collected over $5.6 million that a jury awarded in her sexual abuse and defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump, court records and her lawyers said. The payment — representing the $5 million jury award, plus interest — was made Monday from...
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The devil works hard, but apparently, Twin Temple works harder. Texas country artist Charley Crockett made headlines by kicking the Satanic doo-wop duo off a couple of recent dates, but the pair have plenty of other shows lined up, including one this fall in San Antonio. First, J...
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Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil is suing the federal government and several private groups, alleging they were part of a conspiracy to suppress criticism of Israel through a campaign to dox, jail and ultimately deport student activists. The civil rights suit, filed Tuesday, n...
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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’ pocket...
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Four-time champion Tadej Pogačar dealt his rivals another crushing blow by winning the 10th stage of the Tour de France on Tuesday to extend his already commanding overall lead.“You never know how long it lasts,” said Pogačar, who is on course to equal the record for Tour wins. O...
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The head of baseball's players' union chastised management on Tuesday for its advertising campaign in support of a salary cap.Bruce Meyer, who took over when Tony Clark was forced out in February, said the sport was thriving.“The supposed stewards of the game have spent an inordi...
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Former British politician and reality TV contestant Ann Widdecombe was killed in a “targeted attack,” though the motivation is still under investigation, counterterror police said Tuesday. A 28-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder and terror crimes remains in custody as t...
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When 21-year-old Jolie Pesina crashed her vehicle into Leon Creek on a November morning, her iPhone immediately did what it was designed to do. It called 911. Records obtained by KSAT Investigates confirm Apple’s Crash Detection system repeatedly provided a San Antonio emergency ...
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McALLEN — Last week’s killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was the latest test of an already strained relationship between the two nations that share a border in Texas. On Monday, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced that ...
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Hundreds of people protested in Maine on Tuesday over the killing of a Colombian driver by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, after federal officials appeared to shift their narrative about the deadly encounter.The Department of Homeland Security said an ICE officer, “f...
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Billionaire Warren Buffett omitted Bill Gates ′ foundation from his annual donations this year after disclosures of the Microsoft co-founder’s ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. He will donate about $6 billion to four foundations connected to his own family, but did ...
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Todd Blanche is heading into a high-stakes test this week in his bid to become attorney general, with key Republicans still undecided about whether to back his nomination. Blanche will need the support of all GOP lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee in order to advance his...
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An experimental drug might help slow early Alzheimer’s disease in a markedly different way than today’s treatments — by lowering levels of a brain protein called tau, researchers reported Tuesday.Tau is one part of a toxic duo fueling Alzheimer’s but prior attempts to develop dru...
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The majority of Ebola virus cases in eastern Congo are from unknown chains of transmission, the World Health Organization’s emergencies chief said on Tuesday and warned that the outbreak “continues to outpace the response efforts.”Congo has been battling an outbreak of a rare typ...
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San Antonio residents shared ideas and desires for a sports and entertainment district at the first of 10 planned listening sessions.
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A federal judge will hear arguments Tuesday over whether U.S. Border Patrol agents can be compelled to testify in the upcoming criminal trial of former Uvalde CISD Police Chief Pete Arredondo.Arredondo’s defense team is seeking testimony from federal agents who responded to the R...
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Weeks after the end of a historic term, Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett will make a rare appearance before Congress on Tuesday at 10 a.m. ET. The justices could face wide-ranging questions as the high court seeks millions of dollars to beef up security am...
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Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh pledged to make high inflation “a thing of the past” in his first congressional testimony Tuesday, yet provided no signal about the central bank's next steps. Fed policymakers “have no tolerance for persistently elevated inflation,” Warsh said in...
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Storms are expected to bring periods of heavy rainfall throughout the day. Some areas could see several inches of rain.
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After her grandmother’s house in Caracas narrowly survived last month’s devastating back-to-back earthquakes, Alessandra Izaguirre was desperate to help Venezuela.“Seeing my grandma and all these people affected made me feel like I had to do something, even if it was from the U.S...
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A U.S.-Russian space crew blasted off successfully Tuesday on a mission to the International Space Station.NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Russian crewmates Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina lifted off from the Russia-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz M...
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Brad Simpson, the man charged in connection with the murder of his wife, is expected back in a Bexar County courtroom Tuesday morning. According to court records, a status hearing is scheduled to begin at approximately 9 a.m. before Judge Joel Perez inside Bexar County’s 437th Cr...
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Spurs hold meetings to get feedback on Project Marvel; Rep. James Talarico unveils border security plan; Rain, flooding threaten SA and surrounding areas...
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A distinguished American marine biologist has been shot dead by three men who entered his house in the central Philippines, police said on Tuesday.Kent Carpenter, 73, was with his Filipina companion in a house in the coastal town of Sibulan, in Negros Oriental province, on Sunday...
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Over 60 power outages have been reported across Medina County on Tuesday as heavy rain continues to fall throughout the area. More than 190 customers are affected by the outages near Hondo and Castroville, according to the Medina County Power Outage Map. Most of the outages are h...
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JPMorgan Chase said Tuesday that it logged $16.9 billion in second-quarter profit as its equities trading division again took advantage of market volatility triggered by the war in Iran.The nation's largest bank by asset size, JPMorgan said that revenue in every line of its busin...
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KSAT crews are monitoring for storms on Tuesday morning in San Antonio and the surrounding counties in South Texas. Heavy rainfall is underway across several areas along U.S. Highway 90 from Hondo to Uvalde and northward into Bandera County. >> ⚠️FLOOD RISK CONTINUES⚠️: Heavy rai...
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A law intended to prevent police and other officials from covering up errors and wrongdoing was unanimously approved by British lawmakers on Tuesday, 37 years after the country’s deadliest sports tragedy sparked a campaign for justice.The Public Office (Accountability) Bill — or ...
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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 rat...
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New York will block the construction of any new large data centers for up to a year so the state can create rules to protect the environment and energy grid from the power-hungry facilities that fuel artificial intelligence technology.Gov. Kathy Hochul is set to sign an executive...
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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 Democr...
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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.ODESSA — Mexico and the U.S. may frequently spar, but the two nations are bound by energy — networks of pi...
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Ukrainian air defenses intercepted five ballistic missiles launched by Russia in a raft of overnight attacks, Ukraine’s air force said Tuesday, though other missiles and drones got through and hit the capital Kyiv.It was the first time in almost two weeks that Ukraine claimed to ...
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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 t...
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Jerry Jones, the famous and ever-present owner of the Dallas Cowboys, finally showed up at the World Cup for the last of the tournament-high nine games at his NFL team's home stadium.The billionaire businessman was keeping up from afar, and he attended Spain's 2-0 victory over Fr...
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Utah Jazz guard Trey Alexander was taken from the court on stretcher Monday night with a bruised rib suffered on a drive to the basket in an NBA Summer League game against the Chicago Bulls.Alexander, who signed a two-way deal with Utah last week, made contact with the Bulls' Cal...
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The U.S. launched strikes on Iran early Tuesday morning, hours after President Donald Trump said Washington is “reinstating” a blockade on Iran in the Strait of Hormuz. Trump separately suggested the United States will charge other ships for safe passage, upending hundreds of yea...
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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...
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The death toll from a huge fire in a Bangkok music bar has increased to 30, officials said Tuesday.More than 70 people remain hospitalized, with 24 of them in critical condition, according to Bangkok city officials.The blaze at the Rong Beer Na Ladprao bar, the city’s deadliest i...
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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 ri...
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Oil prices climbed early Tuesday as fighting intensified in the Middle East, while Asian shares declined, dragged lower by losses for artificial-intelligence stocks. The price of Brent crude climbed to just over $84 a barrel after soaring nearly 10% on Monday. U.S. benchmark crud...
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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 deadl...
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It’s already been a deadly year for firefighters, and authorities have been putting resources where they can more quickly pounce on wildfires before they get out of hand and increase the possibility of additional loss of life and property.Fire managers try to anticipate nature's ...
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The sudden death of Sen. Lindsey Graham, a top ally of President Donald Trump and one of Washington's best-known politicians, is renewing focus on the country's aging lawmakers.Graham, who had turned 71 just two days before dying on Saturday, was far younger than many of his Sena...
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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 r...
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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 ...
