TPR News Now: Tuesday, July 21, 2026
Zavala County residents begin flood recovery; San Antonio ISD officially hires new district leader; Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones weighs in on budget gap
Zavala County residents begin flood recovery; San Antonio ISD officially hires new district leader; Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones weighs in on budget gap
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Complex computer systems that decide whether people get Medicaid benefits have a history of errors. Now, changes to comply with Trump's tax and domestic policy law are inundating those systems.
Some fear America is experiencing a literacy crisis, but business has been so good at Talking Animals Books in Grapevine that they opened a second location.
The FDA says lettuce distributed by Taylor Fresh Foods and Taylor Farms de Mexico is still linked to the multistate outbreak of cyclosporiasis. But the source may be difficult to definitively trace.
After nearly 480 billion gallons of rain fell in the Hill Country last week, roughly 350 first responders were sent to La Salle County on Monday in preparation for significant flooding that could impact the area. Although the forecast for Cotulla is clear, the Nueces River continues to flow at ma...
The Trump administration’s disruptions to a global AIDS relief program have forced organizations to close clinics, lay off staff and cut services, seriously impeding efforts to prevent and treat the disease in dozens of countries, a new report released Tuesday shows. The President’s Emergency Pla...
A U.S. soldier killed in Iraq during a controlled detonation of an Iranian drone was a 30-year-old father from North Carolina who had served for nearly a decade, according to a military statement Tuesday and his family. Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, of Fayetteville, will receive a Bronze Star, P...
The U.S. and Iran are back to bombing every day in a bid to control the Strait of Hormuz . And neither is backing down, showing the limitations of President Donald Trump’s reliance on escalating airstrikes to bend Tehran to his will. While the Trump administration says it is open to diplomacy , I...
The refresh aims to make readers a more digestible experience as they engage with San Antonio Report content. The Daily Reach and Recap have a whole new look: Sign up for our redesigned newsletters was first posted on July 21, 2026 at 8:00 am. ©2021 " San Antonio Report ". Use of this feed i...
If you’re free on Wednesday, the San Antonio Zoo is offering discounted admission for Bexar County residents as part of Locals Day . On Wednesday, July 22, all Bexar County residents can visit the zoo for $8. The zoo is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. This week’s Locals Day celebrates each City Counci...
A federal appeals court has rejected a request by Joe Biden to block the release of audio recordings and transcripts of his interviews with a memoir ghostwriter before he was elected president . A divided three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit suspen...
Zavala County residents begin flood recovery; San Antonio ISD officially hires new district leader; Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones weighs in on budget gap
A San Antonio woman fell victim to a phone scam that cost her $2,000, prompting police to ramp up efforts to prevent others from falling into the same trap. Kathy Bushon says she was at work when she received a frightening call from a man who identified himself as a San Antonio Police Department ...
Today at 10:30 a.m., SA Live’s Pizza Week continues at DarkSide Pizza, plus - the Greatest Show on Earth comes to the Alamo city & get help getting out of debt & summer kicks-off at Morgan’s Wonderland. It’s day 2 of Pizza Week & Jen takes us inside DarkSide Brick Oven Pizza - They combine 80’s m...
More project details are coming into focus for the Terry Black’s Barbecue mixed-use development on Broadway. Architectural renderings submitted to the Historic and Design Review Commission for the hotel portion of the project, dubbed The Mandeville, show how the project is taking shape. The 3-sto...
A suspected gas explosion on Monday triggered a collapse inside a tunnel that was under construction at a hydropower project in India’s northeastern Himalayan state of Sikkim, leaving at least 11 people dead and 14 missing, officials said on Tuesday. State Chief Minister Prem Singh Tamang, who vi...
The Historic and Design Review Commission is scheduled to consider the plans August 5 and make a recommendation for eight of the 18 stations. VIA’s plans for Silver Line bus stops in historic districts head for review was first posted on July 21, 2026 at 5:00 am. ©2021 " San Antonio Report "...
On an early April morning, two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents approached Y.R. in the parking lot of her Dallas-Fort Worth area apartment as she was about to head to her construction job. Y.R., a 37-year-old undocumented Honduran immigrant who came to the U.S. in early 2022, had s...
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. McALLEN — U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, a Democrat from McAllen, is trying to protect the name of a beloved South Texas beac...
FORECAST HIGHLIGHTS NUECES RIVER: Reaches major flood stage this morning T.S. BERTHA: Slight strengthening today, then weaker as she moves toward TX TRIPLE DIGITS: Good chance SA sees first 100° day on Wednesday FORECAST NUECES RIVER FLOODING AT COTULLA (4AM UPDATE) With an estimated 480 billion ...
Rescue crews in Afghanistan searched Tuesday for survivors and bodies in the rubble of houses destroyed by devastating flash floods that authorities said have killed at least 23 people and left more than 100 missing. The Afghanistan National Disaster Management Authority said Tuesday that 80 peop...
New U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham gathered his Cabinet for its first meeting on Tuesday and vowed to take a “one-team approach” despite purging allies of predecessor Keir Starmer from the government. Burnham told his top team that he would lead a “cost-of-living government” focused on easing t...
Tropical Storm Bertha strengthened in the Gulf of Mexico and was moving slowly toward the Florida Panhandle and Alabama, causing a tropical storm warning and storm surge watches, forecasters said. The storm was about 110 miles (177 kilometers) south of Panama City, Florida, and 170 miles (274 kil...
Supporters of India’s youth-led Cockroach movement demanding educational reforms and government accountability refused to leave their New Delhi protest site Tuesday, a day after their thousands-strong march toward Parliament drew police tear gas, beatings and a new wave of sympathy from across th...
Diplomats sought Tuesday to salvage the collapsed interim deal between Iran and the United States even as both countries continued to launch attacks in a 10th day of renewed fighting. Iranian Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni’s visit to Pakistan, a key mediator in the conflict, pointed to intensi...
A man stabbed and wounded two tourists Tuesday morning near the ancient Acropolis in Athens, Greece’s top tourist attraction, police said, in what appeared to be a random attack. The assailant, identified only as a 60-year-old Greek man, attacked a Greek American couple with a knife on a pedestri...
The Israeli military is quietly but quickly building a giant earthen barrier separating the over 50% of the Gaza Strip it controls from the rest of the territory, according to satellite imagery, further entrenching the division of the tiny Palestinian enclave. More than 23 kilometers (14 miles) h...
Lebanon's president is meeting with President Donald Trump on Tuesday to wrap up a four-day visit to Washington, in a bid for long-term calm after months of war at home between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group. Joseph Aoun's first-ever meeting with his U.S. counterpart comes as...
More gains for makers of computer chips and other winners of the artificial-intelligence boom are carrying Wall Street higher on Tuesday. The S&P 500 rose 0.5%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 327 points, or 0.6%, as of 10:15 a.m. Eastern time, and the Nasdaq composite was 0.8% higher. AI...
One may not expect thousands to flock each winter to Lesotho but for many ski enthusiasts from across southern Africa , the small, landlocked mountain kingdom has become the go-to place in recent years. Lesotho's high elevation and mountainous terrain combine to make it the coldest country on the...
A judge is set to decide at a hearing that opens Tuesday whether there is enough evidence to put singer D4vd on trial in the killing and dismemberment of a 14-year-old girl that authorities said had threatened to expose their relationship. Prosecutors have said the evidence will show that 21-year...
An investigation is underway after at least three animals were found dead Monday inside a vehicle in a downtown parking lot, San Antonio Animal Care Services said in a news release. ACS and the San Antonio Police Department received a report regarding a strong odor coming from a car in the 100 bl...
Milwaukee manager Pat Murphy says the Brewers want to monitor Jacob Misiorowski’s workload coming out of the All-Star break. The first example of that came Monday night. Misiorowski worked just four innings in an 8-3 victory over the New York Mets that marked his first appearance since pitching s...
La Salle County officials activated an emergency response Thursday ahead of expected flooding along the Nueces River, deploying roughly 350 personnel from agencies across Texas and neighboring states. During a Monday night news conference, La Salle County Judge Leodoro Martinez III said officials...
FORECAST HIGHLIGHTS HOT DAYS AHEAD: Triple digits possible by Wednesday NUECES & FRIO FLOODING: Cotulla and Tilden will experience major flooding soon TROPICAL STORM BERTHA: Some strengthening possible. Odds currently favor minimal/no impacts for Texas AQUIFER/LAKES STILL RISING: Aquifer tops 650...
In communities along the Nueces and Leona rivers, residents are distributing supplies, serving meals and helping families recover from last week’s floods.
The San Antonio Independent School District Board of Trustees voted Monday to name Adrian Bustillos to lead the district as superintendent, according to a news release. Bustillos was initially voted as a finalist for the role on June 24. “We believe Adrian Bustillos is the leader for this moment,...
Some volunteers from CrossBridge Community Church in San Antonio have been here before. Those who are now stepping in to help needed help more than a year ago. Brian Keeper, who volunteers with the church, said he lost his home last year in Hunt. He had to hide in his attic to avoid the rising fl...
San Antonio Spurs superstar Victor Wembanyama will return to lead France in international basketball. FIBA confirmed this weekend that the star center has been named to his home country’s 15-man roster for the upcoming 2027 World Cup qualifying window in August, with games set against Slovenia an...
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