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Bob Pettit, an imposing scorer and rebounder for the St. Louis Hawks and winner of the NBA’s first Most Valuable Player award in 1956, has died. He was 93. Pettit's alma mater, LSU, announced Thursday that he died a day earlier. The university did not provide a cause of death. Pe...
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Austin Current is a nonprofit local news organization supported by The Texas Tribune, reporting on Austin government, education and community. Sign up for the Current’s free newsletter here . Parents at two failing Austin middle schools should have a say in whether the campuses c...
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Former FBI employees involved in the criminal investigation into President Donald Trump's retention of classified documents have been subpoenaed to appear before a grand jury in a broad Florida-based conspiracy probe , their lawyers revealed Thursday as they asked a judge to clar...
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A tech-heavy guest list, the fashion choices of those on it, who sat where and what was on the menu marked the softer — often and glitzier — details of diplomacy as Donald Trump threw a Thursday night state dinner honoring China’s leader Xi Jinping . The event featured a cavalcad...
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The Bexar County Elections Department said it was sent tens of thousands of voter registrations by the Texas Department of Safety overnight. Bexar County receives 45,000 unprocessed voter registrations overnight due to DPS error was first posted on September 24, 2026 at 3:30 pm. ...
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A ruling to halt deportations of people to countries other than their own threw a core immigration policy of the Trump administration into question, at least temporarily, and prompted a desperate appeal to the Supreme Court on Thursday. The administration said the ruling by the 1...
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President Donald Trump showed off some of his favorite things at the White House for the visiting leader of communist China on Thursday — bringing him inside his Marine One helicopter and exhibiting a new granite landing pad he built for it, along with the hulking, nearby constru...
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Chancellor Brandon Creighton and Cody Campbell, who chairs Tech's Board of Regents, are identified by their official university titles on the invitation to the Sept. 29 fundraiser. Lubbock County Democrats are questioning whether their public positions — or university resources —...
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The San Antonio costume designer dressed William H. Macy. for "The Deputy,” which hits limited theaters and VOD platforms on Friday. Grizelda Garza is dressing Hollywood stars without leaving San Antonio was first posted on September 24, 2026 at 3:05 pm. ©2021 " San Antonio ...
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Pete Crow-Armstrong joined the 40-40 club when the Chicago Cubs star stole his 40th base of the season Thursday against the Miami Marlins. A favorite to win the NL MVP award, Crow-Armstrong became the seventh player with at least 40 homers and 40 steals in a season, joining a gro...
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Today @ 10:30 a.m., Two nights of wrestling at the Boeing Center, and a guide dog who stole the show. TNA WRESTLING AT BOEING CENTER AT TECH PORT Total Nonstop Action Wrestling took over the show from the Boeing Center at Tech Port, with a live Impact broadcast set for tonight an...
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Utah prosecutors are dropping their plan to seek the death penalty in an upcoming retrial of a 71-year-old man who spent decades on death row for a 1985 killing in which newly analyzed DNA evidence did not match him. Douglas Stewart Carter was sentenced to death in 1985 after a j...
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Members of the San Antonio City Council made the decision in August to change the name of the street once named for Chávez after allegations of sexual abuse against him came to light....
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A Republican California sheriff must return more than a half-million ballots he seized for an investigation into unfounded voting improprieties in a special election last year, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday. Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco in February seized approxi...
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Coleman represented House District 147, including much of Inner Loop Houston, from 1991 until his retirement in 2022.
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Irish rockers U2 will release their first full-length album of new material in nine years — the 12-track “Carnaval De Luz,” which will feature a song with Dolly Parton. Interscope Records announced that Nov. 13 will be the sale date for U2's 16th studio album and released a new t...
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For Cass Meehan, childhood visits to their Mohegan homelands meant family time and basketball. At 6, sporting a red jersey that hung past their knees, Meehan joined a roaring crowd at some of the Connecticut Sun’s first WNBA games. Two decades later, the Mohegans have sold the Su...
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Find the schedule and live scores for high school football games on Sept. 24-26 in San Antonio, South Texas and the Hill Country area. Game scores below will be updated at the end of quarters and, in some cases, halves. *{margin:0;padding:0;text-decoration:none;color:inherit;}#BO...
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began the year declaring that he stood “shoulder to shoulder” with U.S. President Donald Trump as the two countries launched a war against Iran . But this week, as world leaders gathered in New York for the United Nations General Assembly...
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Melania Trump and Peng Liyuan on Thursday toured one of the largest Asian art museums in the United States, celebrating cultural ties between the U.S. and China during a high-profile diplomatic visit to Washington. Leaving their husbands behind at the White House, the first ladie...
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A drug task force in Mississippi is urging people to avoid kratom after authorities found packages of the substance while investigating the deaths of two University of Mississippi students. The warning Tuesday came despite no “confirmed information” that kratom contributed to eit...
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The nation’s cybersecurity agency on Thursday released an election infrastructure security plan 40 days before November’s midterms , laying out potential threats to election systems and listing services it would offer to election officials to protect the vote. Election officials ...
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In her bid to unseat Gov. Greg Abbott , Democrat Gina Hinojosa is hoping to significantly expand the tent — this time, to include a Trump supporter who protested at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. In a new ad, which Hinojosa announced Thursday on stage at the Texas Tribune Fest...
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Chinese President Xi Jinping said Thursday that two giant pandas from China will arrive at Zoo Atlanta in the coming days, bolstering a loan program that at one time had lapsed as part of tensions between Beijing and Washington. China and the zoo had said in April that Ping Ping,...
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The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate rose this week above 7% for the first time since January 2025, the latest affordability setback for prospective homebuyers following a five-week run of rate increases. The weekly average rate on a 30-year fixed-rate home loan rose to 7.03%...
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A new documentary highlighting the wildlife and waterways that shape Texas is coming to theaters Friday. “Deep in the Heart 2: Texas Rivers” is the follow-up to the 2022 film “Deep in the Heart.” The new documentary is narrated by Texas native Ethan Hawke. The film takes viewers ...
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The Jockey Club has ruled that a racehorse known as Austrian Painter has been renamed Merrylegs after a review of a complaint that alleged it was a reference to Adolf Hitler. The horse’s name drew attention after winning his debut Monday at Horseshoe Indianapolis Racecourse. Hitl...
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At first glance, it looks like a typical Republican campaign advertisement. As images of President Donald Trump flash across the screen, the 30-second spot says “America will never be a communist country” and boasts about the “largest tax cuts in history.” But there's something d...
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New York sued the prediction market Polymarket on Thursday, arguing the platform is an unlicensed gambling operation and calling for a judge to block the company from operating in the state. The lawsuit is the latest legal challenge from a state moving to rein in popular and now-...
