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Man’s best friend is getting some love from the Girl Scouts. Girl Scouts of the USA said Tuesday its first cookies for dogs will go on sale in January. The blueberry muffin-flavored cookies were developed with Bark, a New York-based seller of dog treats and toys. The cookies, dub...
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Newly crowned NBA champion Jalen Brunson of the New York Knicks will host “Saturday Night Live” when the new season begins later this month, with future guests including Inde Navarrette, Gracie Abrams and Katseye. Brunson, who helped the Knicks become champions this summer for th...
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Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate must remain in custody as they fight extradition to the United Kingdom, where the brothers are accused of rape and sex trafficking, a federal judge in Miami ruled Wednesday. U.S. Magistrate Lauren Louis denied a defense motion for ...
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Back-to-school season brings new friendships, and sometimes new romantic relationships. Local advocacy groups say parents should be ready to have honest conversations with their kids about what a healthy relationship looks like. Mandy Majors, founder of nextTalk, says the parent ...
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The late-night action at the U.S. Open has now reached an extreme. Ben Shelton's five-set thriller to beat reigning champion Carlos Alcaraz in the quarterfinals ended at 3:33 a.m. Wednesday, leaving few people awake to see the 4 1/2-hour marathon reach its finale on one of the sp...
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Pershing Elementary School on the East Side has made a dramatic academic comeback, jumping from an F to a B in the latest Texas Education Agency (TEA) accountability ratings — and missing an A by just one point. The school earned an 89% in the ratings released in August. The TEA’...
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The investigation of a man killed outside an East Side restaurant continues eight years later, and Crime Stoppers San Antonio is also continuing its search for tips related to the case. Herion Chase , 44, was shot outside what used to be Big Cassel’s Smokehouse on Sept. 8, 2018, ...
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Arch Manning's 2025 Heisman Trophy campaign started and ended with a rocky season-opening loss at Ohio State. Over in the Buckeyes' huddle, Julian Sayin's first career start launched a standout season that found him, not Manning, among the Heisman finalists last December. Those t...
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Ballet Texas is taking a Halloween classic underground this fall with a one-night-only performance at Natural Bridge Caverns. The performance of “Dracula” is scheduled for Oct. 3 and will kick off Natural Bridge Caverns’ annual Cavern Bat Fest, according to a news release. The pr...
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President Donald Trump has dismissed trade with Mexico as little more than “tamales and tomatoes.” But the economic ties between the two countries are far more significant. The data show Mexico’s role in U.S. trade and the longstanding relationship between both countries also aff...
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Dorothy West was just 17 years old when she wrote “The Typewriter,” a quietly devastating story about dreams, family and the painful cost of disillusionment. Peter Orner and Yvette Benavides discuss the story and the remarkable psychological insight of Dorothy West — and the worl...
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Facebook is on trial in New Mexico over privacy concerns that emerged during the 2016 election when a political consulting firm bought user data harvested from millions of profiles to generate targeted ads . Opening statements will begin Wednesday in state court in Santa Fe, just...
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The two NASA astronauts who led the Artemis II moonshot earlier this year are stepping away from spaceflight. NASA announced Wednesday that Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman and pilot Victor Glover will no longer serve as active astronauts but will continue to support the moon ex...
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As the Republican National Committee gathers in Dallas, Republican donors and political experts explain why Texas raises so much money.
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The Republican Party's first-ever midterm convention begins in Dallas as Trump and GOP leaders rally voters, while Democrats prepare their own counterprogramming ahead of November....
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Temporary legal protections for about 200,000 immigrants from El Salvador was in limbo Wednesday as a deadline neared for the Trump administration to decide if they should end, as it has done for hundreds of thousands from Venezuela, Haiti and other countries. The Temporary Prote...
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For more than a decade, PicaPica Plaza has given Southside entrepreneurs a place to launch businesses, connect with customers, and work toward their dreams of business ownership. But who owns PicaPica Plaza, and what inspired its creation? An investment group led by San Antonio d...
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An altercation on the North Side ended with a 35-year-old man being stabbed multiple times, according to San Antonio police. Officers responded to the incident around 4 a.m. Wednesday in the 2500 block of Jackson Keller Road, which is located near Vance Jackson Road. According to...
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The Center for Health Empowerment in South Texas (CHEST) officially opened CHEST South on Saturday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, facility tours, and a community resource fair. The new location is called CHEST South in anticipation of creating similar partnerships in other close...
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited Ecuador on Wednesday on the second leg of a three-nation tour of South America aimed at boosting security cooperation with conservative leaders who have cozied up to President Donald Trump, especially in the administration's push to cra...
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Lionel Messi is set to become the majority shareholder of Spanish second-division club Eldense. Eldense, based near the port city of Alicante in south-east Spain, confirmed to The Associated Press on Wednesday that the eight-time Ballon d'Or winner had reached a preliminary agree...
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British police said Wednesday that they have opened a criminal investigation into allegations that anti-immigration party Reform UK broke rules against foreign donations. Last week, Channel 4 broadcast an undercover investigation in which two senior Reform UK officials appeared t...
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The birds are up with the sunrise — warblers, flycatchers, sparrows and towhees calling across the treetops. Deer browse on tender buds emerging from dense shrubs. Black bears scrounge for roots, insects and other edibles. It's an idyllic setting in North Carolina's Inner Banks, ...
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A major American aid group is promising to deliver more medicines in high-need areas around the world after receiving its largest ever donation. Americares, a nonprofit that supports thousands of health centers globally, announced a $50 million gift Wednesday from an unidentified...
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Fresh fruits and vegetables may seem like the obvious choice in the produce aisle, but a food science expert says frozen and canned options can also be nutritious choices. Shannon Combest, an assistant professor and extension specialist in the Department of Food Science and Techn...
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Republicans gathered in Dallas on Wednesday for a highly unusual two-day midterm convention , a first for the party, that will put President Donald Trump at the center of this fall’s midterm elections . Trump delivered a keynote address Wednesday in which he promised to send $5,0...
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After her parents went missing under the rubble of their Venezuela apartment building, Kelly Granado Montano spent her days here “lost, worried, on the phone,” her body in one country, her mind in another. “The desperation, the pain, and the anguish grew — from not knowing” their...
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A man died after he was involved in a single-vehicle crash Monday morning in Dimmit County, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS). Troopers responded to the crash around 5:26 a.m. on U.S. Highway 83 near Mile Marker 654, which is around 18 miles south of Carriz...
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It’s “The Pitt” versus “Pluribus” and “Hacks” against “Widow’s Bay” at the 78th Emmy Awards on Monday night. The stars of all four shows — Noah Wyle in “The Pitt,” Rhea Seehorn in “Pluribus,” Jean Smart in “Hacks” and Matthew Rhys in “Widow’s Bay” — look to be runaway favorites f...
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Republicans will descend on Dallas this week for a two-day convention dreamed up by President Donald Trump to rally his supporters for this year’s midterm elections. Trump has said he wanted to channel the kind of political extravaganza that each party holds every four years to f...
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British Prime Minister Andy Burnham defended his government's decision to ban trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, saying that Britain was being true to its roots by taking a stand for justice. “Britain has to stand for fairness against injustice...
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This year’s Texas Tribune Festival opens and closes with keynotes from two of American politics’ most closely watched, and least predictable, voices. In candid interviews with national journalists, former U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and U.S. Sen. John Fetterman bookend our t...
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The Greater San Antonio Chamber and the Metro SA Chamber have unanimously approved creating a joint committee to explore a formal partnership. Leaders say the move could provide the region’s business community a stronger voice in decisions affecting jobs, investment and economic ...
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Rory McIlroy says the expected visit of President Donald Trump at this week's Irish Open poses logistical challenges, and that the atmosphere will be different. A White House official said last month that Trump planned to attend the tournament at his Doonbeg golf course in County...
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President Donald Trump capped Wednesday’s opening night of the unusual Republican midterm convention by slamming Democrats as extremists and staunchly defending the war in Iran while making the extraordinary pledge to pay every adult American $5,000 if his party retains its contr...
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President Volodymyr Zelenskyy chided the international community Wednesday for not taking a tougher stance against Russia over its escalating bombardment of civilian areas of Ukraine. At the end of August, Russia launched a week of nighttime and daylight attacks on Kyiv in its he...
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A teenager was hospitalized in critical condition early Thursday after he was found shot in the chest on the West Side, according to San Antonio police. Officers responded to a call for a prowler around 12:30 a.m. in the 1400 block of Melissa Sue, which is located near Culebra Ro...
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A panel of federal judges heard arguments Wednesday over whether prescribing rules should be tightened for a key drug used in the most common abortion method in the United States, one of several ongoing efforts to restrict abortion access four years after the U.S. Supreme Court a...
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The Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen said Wednesday that Saudi-backed forces had launched dozens of airstrikes overnight across four Yemeni provinces after rebel attacks on Saudi Arabia ignited fires at several oil facilities and wounded dozens of people. Separately, Iranian st...
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China hit back Wednesday against U.S. claims that Chinese artificial intelligence developers are engaged in “aggressive, malicious” industrial-scale efforts to extract capabilities from frontier American AI systems. The FBI, National Security Agency and Cybersecurity and Infrastr...
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Eight-month-old Rojatun Jannat Ramisa is struggling to breathe in a hospital in Bangladesh’s capital as her parents sit helplessly beside her. She's one of thousands of children sickened by a measles outbreak that's sweeping across the country and has killed hundreds of children ...
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Lamine Yamal scored with a free kick through the defensive wall as Barcelona beat Feyenoord 5-1 win Wednesday in its Champions League opener. Raphinha extended his prolific start to the season with a fast goal inside three minutes in the early kickoff at Camp Nou. The Brazil forw...
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FORECAST HIGHLIGHTS ISOLATED RAIN NEXT FEW DAYS: Spotty, random, afternoon pop-ups Wed-Sun CONTINUED HOT: Relief remains elusive. Upper 90s will be the norm TROPICS VERY QUIET: Peak of Atlantic hurricane is here, no storms to speak of FORECAST PREPARE TO DODGE SPOTTY AFTERNOON RA...
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The price of oil surpassed $100 a barrel for the first time in almost six weeks after attacks on oil facilities and ships in the Middle East threatened to debilitate an already weakened supply chain. The most heavily traded contract for a barrel of Brent crude, the international ...
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Americans are more skeptical of government information than they were a few years ago, with majorities now saying they have little or no trust in federal government information about elections and politics, foreign affairs or the environment, a new poll finds. The survey from The...
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The head of Britain ’s air traffic control system was summoned to a meeting with the country's transport minister as airlines scrambled Wednesday to dig out from the backlog triggered by technical problems that forced the cancellation of more than 1,750 flights . The problems fir...
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San Antonio Spurs fans will have a chance to see the team up close before the regular season begins. The Silver & Black announced it will hold a free open scrimmage at 6 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 4, at Frost Bank Center. The team will take the court for four 10-minute quarters, accord...
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Zhang Ziyu has made quite an impression in her women's basketball World Cup debut. The 7-foot-3 center for China had 13 points on Wednesday to help the team advance to the quarterfinals with a 75-72 win over Puerto Rico. Paige Bueckers had a moment with Zhang on the court when th...
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Norway will bid its final farewell to King Harald V on Wednesday with a funeral attended by royalty and leaders from across Europe and beyond, who will pay tribute to the popular monarch's 35-year reign. Harald, who died on Aug. 28 aged 89, was Europe’s oldest monarch and had mod...
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Indonesian rescuers searched for eight people who went missing at sea while heading the island of Anak Krakatau to report on a volcanic eruption , officials said Wednesday. A speedboat carrying five photojournalists, two crew members and a route guide lost contact after leaving C...
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Asian shares were mixed in cautious trading Wednesday as investors watched for what might happen on interest rates and the war with Iran pushed oil prices higher. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 lost 0.2% to 65,142.78, while South Korea's Kospi gained 1.4% to 7,051.64. In Hong Kong,...
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In the real world, President Donald Trump is struggling to stop inflation, rout the Iranian government and restore American manufacturing with tariffs. However, it's a different story in the fantastical vision that he shares with supporters on social media. Over Labor Day weekend...
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Around this time two years ago, Sen. John Fetterman was in high demand on the campaign trail, going county-to-county in Pennsylvania to help Democrats up and down the ballot. Now, after two years of crossing swords with Democrats and backing some of President Donald Trump's prior...
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Apple is unveiling its latest generation of iPhones, widely expected to include a foldable version, on Wednesday at an event headlined by new CEO John Ternus , who took over from Tim Cook on Sept. 1. Many of Apple’s biggest rivals, such as Samsung, Motorola and Google, have alrea...
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Two Renoir paintings stolen from a small French museum have yet to be recovered but if the thieves are hoping to cash in on the artwork, they would be hard-pressed to find a buyer. Selling well-known, stolen art is impossible to do at an auction house or through other public chan...
