Nearly 4.5 million Texans cast a ballot in the first seven days of early voting — outpacing the turnout rate of the 2022 midterm election but slightly behind 2018, when Democrat Beto O’Rourke fell 2.6 points shy of toppling U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz. From Oct. 19 through Sunday, 23.4% of registered Tex...
safety
San Antonio police are investigating whether a shooting on the East Side was an act of self-defense after a man was hospitalized with a gunshot wound Monday night. The shooting happened just before 11:30 p.m. near North Onslow and Lamar streets, not far from the Freeman Expo Hall...
government
MCKINNEY — For much of her life, Liz Slack voted Republican up and down the ballot. A longtime resident of Collin County — the hometown of U.S. Senate nominee Ken Paxton — Slack said she looks like a typical conservative: a Baylor University alum who goes to Bible study every wee...
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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. NEWTON — Roughly a billion federal dollars are pouring into Deep East Texas to improve access to high spe...
schools
High 5 is one of Adrian Bustillos' first and most dramatic overhauls of SAISD. The Report went inside a school to see what it looks like in practice. A look inside ‘High 5,’ a teaching strategy SAISD is hoping will turn academics around and keep state intervention away was first ...
Local
FORECAST HIGHLIGHTS SPOTTY SHOWERS: Today’s rain chance sits at 30% HEAVY RAIN WEST OF SA ON THU: Lighter, scattered activity for San Antonio HALLOWEEN: Still looking nice, mild, likely quiet FORECAST SPOTTY SHOWERS TODAY, WEDNESDAY An influx of moisture is making things a bit mo...
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The Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen accused government forces of killing two people in a strike at a gas station near the besieged city of Taiz, where fighting has been intensifying between the two sides. For weeks, the Houthis had largely encircled Taiz — the capital of Taiz ...
safety
Two men were charged Tuesday with national security offenses over a suspected plot against RAF Fairford, a U.S.-run military air base in England, police and prosecutors said. British nationals Mohmed Ahmad Abdulkarim and Nouman Essghir, both aged 24 and from London, were charged ...
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The fast-moving Ebola outbreak in Congo has reached 10,000 confirmed cases, government data showed Tuesday, as health authorities race to slow the spread of the disease in multiple African countries . It is the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history and nearly half of the 10,0...
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Soccer star Kylian Mbappé apologized for comments in which he apparently referred to Mao Zedong, the founding leader of Communist China, as a dictator, after facing backlash and losing brand deals with three different Chinese companies. “My comment was ill-judged, and I now under...
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Wall Street pointed higher early Tuesday ahead of another heavy day of corporate earnings reports. And the Federal Reserve opens its two-day meeting to determine where to go with interest rates . Futures for the S&P 500 rose 0.3% before the bell, while futures for the Dow Jones I...
government
Israelis were voting Tuesday in a tense national election widely seen as a referendum on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's leadership since the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel and the wars that have since shaken the Middle East. Israelis vote for parties , which then f...
government
Environmentalists, Indigenous groups and climate scientists are celebrating the reelection in Brazil of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva , which brings the prospect of a continued focus on stopping the illegal cutting of the Amazon, the largest rainforest in the world. But sup...
