TPR News Now: Friday, July 10, 2026

Mexico seeks criminal investigations for ICE-related deaths; New poll shows mixed feelings on Mayor Jones' first year; SpaceX could launch AI data centers into orbit
By Marian Navarro at Texas Public Radio (TPR) - News · · 1 min read

Mexico seeks criminal investigations for ICE-related deaths; New poll shows mixed feelings on Mayor Jones' first year; SpaceX could launch AI data centers into orbit
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SK Hynix, one of the world's largest makers of memory chips, is hitting the U.S. stock market at a time when demand for its chips is outpacing its ability to make them thanks to the frenzy over artificial intelligence.The company is already one of the largest in South Korea, along with Samsung El...
Volkswagen reported weak sales numbers on Friday, a day after the giant German automaker announced plans to slash the number of models by nearly half as sales plunged, particularly in China. The Wolfsburg, Germany-based company said group sales fell 8.6% in the second quarter to just under 2.1 mi...

Mexico seeks criminal investigations for ICE-related deaths; New poll shows mixed feelings on Mayor Jones' first year; SpaceX could launch AI data centers into orbit
Last December, after Make America Healthy Again activists drew up a petition to get him fired, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zeldin pledged to release a formal agenda of MAHA priorities that his agency would pursue, including protections against harmful chemicals and other hea...
A series of unclaimed airstrikes that hit Iran after the U.S. said it finished its attacks have again raised questions of who else may be targeting the Islamic Republic. The strikes Thursday, just as Iran prepared to bury the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, hit areas across southern I...
The European Union accused Meta on Friday of breaching its social media law by designing Facebook and Instagram to get users hooked, and demanded it disable “key addictive features” like infinite scrolling. The EU's executive arm issued a fresh set of charges against Meta Platforms as part of its...
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.Stephen F. Austin State University will phase out its Early Childhood Laboratory over the next few years because the progra...

The historic Esquire Tavern, the oldest bar on the San Antonio River Walk and well-known for its cocktails, announced it is changing hands. Esquire has a new owner, a former bartender who loved the bar ‘from the moment I walked through the front door’ was first posted on July 10, 2026 at 5:00 am....
FORECAST HIGHLIGHTSSURGE OF MOISTURE TODAY: Isolated to scattered rain this afternoonHIGHEST ODDS TOMORROW: Scattered downpours on Saturday MORE CHANCES NEXT WEEK: Pattern lends itself to more downpours FORECASTTODAYAfter a stretch of dry weather, our situation looks to improves starting today. A...
China successfully recaptured the first stage of a rocket after a launch on Friday in a breakthrough for the country's space program, state media said.The first stage of a Long March-10B rocket separated from the second stage after liftoff and returned to a platform in the sea, the official Xinhu...
Many Jewish adults feel unsafe in the United States, a new AP-NORC poll finds, with a majority saying they feel less safe than they did before Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel.The survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research points to how Jewish adults’ attitudes t...
Three former crew members of a Thai cargo ship struck in the Strait of Hormuz in March filed a lawsuit Friday against the vessel’s operator over labor rights violations and unfair dismissal.The ship, the Mayuree Naree, was hit by a projectile north of Oman on March 11, killing three people. The r...
Wall Street was mixed in muted trading Friday and oil prices swung between small gains and losses after a series of mysterious, unclaimed airstrikes hit Iran. The attacks came after the U.S. said it finished its offensive and raised questions of who else may be targeting the Islamic Republic. Fut...
One of Spain's deadliest wildfires on record killed 12 people overnight into Friday, authorities said, as soaring temperatures grip much of the country. Several victims of the fire in the southern province of Almeria, a popular holiday destination, were found inside burnt-out vehicles and were th...
As dusk settled over Gurdaspur's fields, villagers gathered in the courtyard of a Sikh temple to watch a movie that has been blocked by Indian officials.“Satluj” tells the true tale of a human rights activist who investigated thousands of disappearances and extrajudicial killings during a governm...
After almost 1,000 years, the Bayeux Tapestry is back on English soil.In scenes like a heist movie in reverse, the priceless medieval artwork was spirited into the British Museum on Friday in the dead of night, after a high-tech, tight-security operation where any slip-up could have spelled disas...
A powerful typhoon was heading toward China's east coast Friday, the latest in a series of deadly storms that have already claimed 50 lives this week in two other parts of the country.Typhoon Bavi, with maximum sustained winds of 155 kph (96 mph), was first expected to pass north of Taiwan, bring...
Ashleigh Hallam teaches English as a second language at her local library in Indiana. Soccer is now teaching her Spanish as a second language.For her, this World Cup couldn't make more sense.Hallam is among a sizable number of English-speaking people in the U.S. who are doing something these days...
Lawyers for the man accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk plan to call a final witness on Friday as they try to raise doubts about the prosecution's case before it can go to trial.A Utah judge is deciding whether prosecutors have enough evidence to put Tyler Robinson on trial on a...
New home surveillance video is providing a closer look at the events leading up to the Bexar County sheriff’s deputy shooting of a man on the city’s far West Side last month.The video, shared exclusively with KSAT by a neighbor who asked not to be identified, shows Danh Thanh Dinh, 38, walking th...
San Antonio appointed its temporary police chief, but could he also be the permanent one?City Manager Erik Walsh tapped SAPD Assistant Chief Jesse Salame as acting San Antonio Police Chief on Wednesday after longtime SAPD Chief William McManus moved his planned retirement up by more than two mont...
Data centers store important information including data from hospitals, financial data and data for AI, among many other uses. There are hundreds of data centers built and proposed across Texas, according the Texas Tribune’s data center map. Thirty-one of which are currently up and running. Sever...
The City of San Antonio and the union representing its police officers traded proposals for officer pay Thursday, though a significant gap still remains.The union wants biannual raises to pump up officer pay by 20.5% over the course of a new three-year contract. The city has now gone as high as 1...
Marking the coordinates on a handheld GPS, an Israeli diver threw an anchor into the water as another quickly chucked an orange buoy beside it. Cramped on the boat's bow, the first team assembled their gear, put on wet suits and tested oxygen tanks before jumping in. But after hours of combing th...
A Sotomayor High School running back, who recently committed to UTSA, was arrested after a robbery at a west Bexar County house party, according to an affidavit.Cameron Joseph Grady, 17, faces two counts of aggravated robbery, a first-degree felony, court records show.According to the affidavit, ...
An AMBER Alert was issued Thursday for a 7-month-old last seen south of downtown San Antonio.According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, Ozana Cisneros was last seen at 6 p.m. June 10 in the 300 block of Roosevelt Avenue.DPS said Ozana Cisneros was last seen with Maximina Cisneros, 19, wh...
The 52-year-old Houston man fatally shot by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent earlier this week was not the target of the agency’s operation, said U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia, D-Houston, who has called for release of any video footage capturing the deadly episode.Garcia told The Texas ...
Akiko Sugaya wheels a cart through the alley-like streets of eastern Tokyo selling tofu, the protein-rich staple favored in much of Asia.But delivering soybean curd in all shapes and textures is only a small slice of her mission. And it’s just that. A mission.More than simply a vendor of healthy ...
Track confirmed New World screwworm infestations in Texas and learn what the flesh-eating parasite is, which animals are at risk, how it spreads, what symptoms to watch for and what officials are doing to contain the outbreak.
A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld an Illinois ban on semiautomatic weapons, keeping in place a law passed largely in response to a deadly Independence Day parade shooting. The ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit overturns a lower court decision that found the ban ...
Long before he became known for creating Morgan’s Wonderland and championing inclusion around the world, Gordon Hartman was a teenager who simply wanted to build homes.Hartman shared his unlikely journey with KSAT’s Ernie Zuniga during an appearance on “Pickup Lines,” tracing his path from a Cath...
A San Antonio woman initially charged with a 2024 murder took a plea deal on a lesser charge Thursday afternoon. As a part of the deal, the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office elected to waive Julie Marie Lopez’s murder charge in favor of an aggravated robbery charge that carries a 15-year pr...
Nestled in the heart of downtown, the Spanish Governor’s Palace stands as one of San Antonio’s oldest surviving landmarks and a reminder that South Texas played a key role in the nation’s fight for independence.“We are standing in the National Historic Landmark Spanish Governor’s Palace,” Colleen...
A woman, who said she owns the iconic “Big Bertha” bus featured in the 1997 film “Selena,” is asking for the public’s help after the vehicle disappeared from a San Antonio property.Jessica Ruiz said she bought the bus about four-and-a-half years ago after recognizing it as the same bus used in th...

Artificial intelligence was one of the day's dominant topics, with executives agreeing the technology will reshape nearly every industry.Culture is San Antonio’s selling point, USAA, Whataburger, Silver Ventures and Spurs CEOs agree was first posted on July 9, 2026 at 6:37 pm.©2021 "San Anto...
FORECAST HIGHLIGHTSDOWNPOURS FRIDAY/SATURDAY: Random downpours - brief but heavy rainHAZARDS: Minor street flooding, lightning MORE CHANCES NEXT WEEK: Unsettled pattern continues, daily chances and cooler tempsFORECASTFRIDAYA surge of deep moisture arriving from the Gulf is scheduled to arrive by...
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.MISSION — A historic chapel that served as the basis for the city’s name will no longer lie behind a border wall as communi...

For more than two decades, the Texas Dream Act allowed certain students without legal status to qualify for in-state tuition. The law was abruptly overturned last year.
A Mexican man living in the U.S. who was fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was not the person federal authorities had been targeting in a Houston operation, U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia said Thursday.The Democratic congresswoman, whose district includes the Houston neighborh...

Forecasters are watching a cluster of activity in the southwest Gulf as it moves closer to Texas.
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