U.S. futures are higher as Wall Street digests the latest round of earnings reports while oil prices tick higher. Futures for the S&P 500 rose 0.2% on Wednesday, while those for the Nasdaq climbed 0.4%. Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average were nearly flat. Big expectations for earnings g...
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More than 500 volunteers will put South Texas hospitals, emergency responders and public safety agencies to the test Wednesday during one of the largest healthcare preparedness exercises in the United States. The San Antonio Mass Casualty Exercise and Evaluation — known as SAMCEE...
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President Donald Trump is trying to convince voters before the Nov. 3 midterm elections that the U.S. economy is rocketing upward. But voters say inflation remains a challenge because the Iran war has pushed up gasoline prices , grocery bills have remained expensive and high inte...
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FORECAST HIGHLIGHTS ROUTINE CONTINUES: Cool starts turn to warm afternoon HIGH TEMPS: Staying right under 90 degrees HUMIDITY: Becomes thicker over the weekend RAIN CHANCES : Showers possible next week FORECAST COOLER START THAN YESTERDAY Temperatures this morning are starting in...
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Russian opposition leader and Pulitzer Prize-winning commentator Vladimir Kara-Murza will have a book out next spring, what he calls “a personal testimony and a historical chronicle” of life over the past quarter century under President Vladimir Putin . Public Affairs, an imprint...
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A man was hospitalized early Tuesday after being shot inside a bar on the Southwest Side, San Antonio police said. The shooting happened just before 1 a.m. at a bar on Nogalitos Street near South Zarzamora Street. When they arrived, police learned a man in his 50s was shot in the...
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Three weeks ago, Texas Comptroller Don Huffines signed what he called an executive order aimed at eliminating a “hidden tax” on fees charged by virtual marketplaces to sellers. “There will be a lot more coming,” Huffines said as he held up a jumbo printed version of the order in ...
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Both parties purchase data to build a voter file with info like cell phone numbers. That means there's almost no way to stop the texts. ‘There’s no way to stop them’: How campaigns and PACs get away with nonstop texting was first posted on October 21, 2026 at 5:00 am. ©2021 ...
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Russia on Wednesday freed an American who had been jailed for more than four years on charges of fighting as a mercenary in Ukraine, in a deal completed during a visit by a top U.S. envoy and at a time when President Donald Trump has taken a series of actions meant to benefit Mos...
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U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg on Wednesday about Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine , as U.S. President Donald Trump pushes Kyiv to make a deal that stops the fighting. Witkoff said in televised remarks at the sta...
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Doctors have amputated both of Australian federal lawmaker Helen Haines ' legs as she remains in critical condition after being repeatedly hit by a car in an apparent act of political violence, her husband said Wednesday. The 65-year-old independent politician is receiving treatm...
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The U.K. government approved a natural gas project off the coast of Scotland over the objections of environmental groups on Wednesday, saying it would improve energy security even as the country transitions to renewable sources of energy. Gas from the Jackdaw field east of Aberde...
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Friends and family gathered at a San Antonio bar to remember Air Force Tech. Sgt. Ian Patterson , who died after falling while rappelling from the rafters of the Alamodome ahead of a UTSA football game. The memorial was held at Stout House near Culebra and Talley roads, where Pat...
