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President Donald Trump has announced that Republicans will hold their first-ever national convention ahead of the midterm elections, an unusual event aimed at boosting turnout in races that will decide whether the party maintains control of Congress. The convention will be held i...
A Republican Texas Railroad Commission candidate known for his frequent xenophobic and racially charged comments is egging on a constitutional crisis by urging Texas officials to ignore the U.S. Supreme Court’s Tuesday ruling upholding birthright citizenship. In a Tuesday rant on...
Phoenix Mercury forward Alyssa Thomas said she has received death threats and been called racial slurs in the aftermath of her one-game suspension after she made contact with her fist to Caitlin Clark’s throat in last week's matchup against Indiana.Thomas also criticized WNBA Com...
A pair of San Antonio politicos are getting into the tattoo business. District 2 Councilman Jalen McKee-Rodriguez and Melissa Cabello Havrda, who represented District 6 on council until 2025, released a video revealing they’re launching a new tattoo shop in the Pride Cultural Dis...
ODESSA — Bo French, the Republican nominee for Texas Railroad Commissioner in the November midterm election, on Tuesday called the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold birthright citizenship “traitorous,” saying Texas should not recognize babies born to undocumented parents a...
A federal control board that oversees Puerto Rico’s finances announced Tuesday that it has offered a $3 billion settlement to bondholders in a new push to finally restructure more than $10 billion in debt held by the U.S. territory’s power company.The board is proposing paying ca...
A leading Israeli general who quit Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's war Cabinet after accusing him of lacking a strategy in Gaza has emerged as one of the premier’s most serious challengers in elections scheduled for the fall.His name is Gadi Eisenkot. On Tuesday in Israel, hi...
A State Board of Education member from San Antonio has threatened to sue two other members of the board, alleging they’re harming her reputation by labeling her a “Marxist” and blaming her for spreading “gender confusion” among young people, the Texas Tribune reports. Marisa B. P...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday erased limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president, striking down a federal election law that is more than 50 years old.Prodded by a Republican-led lawsuit that includes Vice President JD V...
Americans' attitudes toward the economy improved slightly this month as gas prices declined, but their outlook is still mostly negative by historical standards. The Conference Board said Tuesday that its consumer confidence index rose 0.6 point to 91.2 in June, a figure that is s...
Kerr County commissioners are expected to discuss flood warning system agreements during a Tuesday morning meeting, weeks after the county became the first in Texas to install and test new state-funded flash flood warning sirens and sensors under Senate Bill 3.The agenda item is ...
Colorado’s Democratic primaries on Tuesday will help answer a question the party has increasingly faced nationally: Are voters gravitating toward a younger, more progressive generation of leaders or sticking with established veterans?That choice is starkly reflected in the fight ...
With a nearly $158 million budget shortfall to close over the next two years, Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones has pointed to some unexpected places to cut deep.The city has not publicly revealed a full list of specific budget cuts being considered, but some possibilities have come up duri...
Colorado voters will not get a say this November on whether to replace the state's congressional districts with ones that could help Democrats win additional seats in future elections. The state Supreme Court on Monday struck down a series of proposed ballot initiatives that woul...
A few days ago, a federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s use of a revamped immigration database to identify noncitizens who have registered to vote across the country. The pointed 75-page ruling from U.S. District Court Judge Sparkle Sooknanan said the federal governmen...
States that allow mail ballots to be counted after Election Day reacted with relief Monday after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a Republican effort to outlaw the practice.A decision favoring the state of Mississippi over the Republican National Committee delivered an immediate r...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was caught on video boarding a flight to Iceland for a getaway with his alleged mistress, British tabloid The Daily Mail reports. Paxton — a MAGA Republican now running for U.S. Senate — and his purported mistress of two years, Christian influenc...
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was gifted concert tickets in Puerto Rico last year as members of the high court continued to accept paid teaching gigs and receive royalties for books they have written, according to financial disclosure forms released Monday that provide in...
CORPUS CHRISTI — Kendall Scudder will lead the Texas Democratic Party into the critical midterm elections this year after Texas Democrats elected him to a full term as chair at the party’s convention in Corpus Christi. The party’s delegates overwhelmingly chose Scudder to continu...
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that states can count ballots that arrive after Election Day, a persistent target of President Donald Trump.The 5-4 decision rejected a Republican-led attack on laws in more than half the states and the District of Columbia that permit mailed bal...
The Supreme Court said Monday it will consider a Republican push to enforce strict Arizona voting laws passed in the swing state after the 2020 election.The high court has allowed some similar rules to take effect temporarily before, including Arizona's proof-of-citizenship requi...
Comcast is planning to split itself into two separate publicly traded companies by spinning off NBCUniversal and Sky. The company said Monday that its board and management team think each company will be better positioned to pursue its own strategic priorities, invest for growth ...
Andy Burnham, likely the next U.K. prime minister, pledged Monday to give away a chunk of his power by handing greater autonomy to local leaders in a “circuit-breaker” for the sclerotic British state.The former mayor of Greater Manchester also said he would move part of the prime...
Usually the primary is the main event, but this year Democrats and Republicans are preparing to rain money down on Bexar County voters. Here’s 5 races to watch, plus three more interesting races....
Texas Democrats spent their 3-day convention in Corpus Christi rallying party activists, training volunteers and making the case for Democratic policies and candidates across the state ahead of the 2026 midterm elections....
Around 13% of Bexar residents over the age of 65 are living with the disease.
If the World Cup was the NCAA basketball tournament, then teams like Morocco and the Netherlands would have some serious anger toward the selection and seeding committee right now. England, Mexico, Portugal and Spain might not be all that happy, either.Lionel Messi and Argentina,...
A Chinese political dissident who had fled to South Korea last month in a dinghy has arrived in Canada, his friend said on social media on Saturday. Dong Guangping was aboard a 3.3-meter (10.8-foot) inflatable boat in the waters off a western South Korean island in May when he wa...
Texas will require Bible stories in public schools after the State Board of Education approved a mandatory reading list Friday alongside a rewrite of K-8 social studies lessons that minimize racial, geographic and cultural diversity. The Republican-led board passed the mandated ...
A man with the same name and party affiliation as Alaska Republican U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan is eligible for the August primary and can appear on the ballot, a judge ruled Friday.Superior Court Judge Thomas Matthews’ ruling overturns a June 15 decision by Division of Elections Dire...
More than 50 drivers who paid fines after receiving traffic citations in Bexar County for speeding soon should be getting their money back.Bexar County commissioners voted Tuesday to issue refunds to 57 people who were cited through a now-illegal Light Detection and Ranging syste...
A recently listed for sale in a North Central San Antonio cul-de-sac comes with a lot of wishlist items, and all for the price of just $750,000. Some of these items, found on many a Pinterest board, are something one wouldn’t typically expect to get with a house that costs less t...
A poll worker said two federal officers visited her at a voting location during New York’s primaries to confront her about a social media post she’d written criticizing the ICE officer who fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis.Paigelynne Gonyea said the confrontation happened Tu...
Three City Council members are requesting a special public meeting to discuss how money promised by the San Antonio Spurs for community benefits could be spent. And they want that briefing before negotiations begin between city staff and Spurs Sports & Entertainment to hash out t...
The San Antonio Spurs used their 2026 NBA Draft selections to bolster their defensive frontcourt around Victor Wembanyama, addressing depth issues exposed during their recent Finals run. The franchise took Jayden Quaintance from the University of Kentucky with the No. 20 pick and...
A new report by a Trump administration commission suggests replacing the idea of separating church and state with the idea of building bridges between them.The assertion — challenging a longstanding concept in American law — comes amid a raft of recommendations in a draft report ...
A Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) member representing San Antonio is raising the alarm about statewide curriculum changes that could require Texas students to learn Bible verses in class and receive a whitewashed version of U.S. history. The Republican-led SBOE opted Thursd...
In a 5-2 vote, San Antonio ISD’s board of trustees on Wednesday selected Adrian Bustillos as the sole finalist to replace retiring superintendent Jaimie Aquino. That decision isn’t without controversy, however. In the early 2010s, El Paso ISD, where Bustillos was serving as assis...
Austin-based Joe Rogan, host of one of the world’s most-listened-to podcasts, criticized the Trump administration’s plan to put up 17 miles of non-contiguous barrier fences in Big Bend National Park. Rogan, who endorsed Trump in the 2024 election, called the White House plan “B.S...
The San Antonio Botanical Garden is pushing back at Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones’ proposal to end public subsidies to the nonprofit as the city looks to rein in a looming $158 million budget deficit. During a meeting last week, Jones said she wants to drop the city’s subsidy to the gar...
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The Texas education board will vote Friday on a required reading list for more than 5 million public school students that includes Bible passages, widening conservative efforts to push Christian teachings in U.S. classrooms.The proposal in Texas — which would mandate literary wor...
At least one San Antonio Independent School District board member drew concerns about its lone finalist for superintendent on Wednesday during a special board meeting.Jacob Ramos, who sits on the SAISD Board of Trustees, was the only member who said they were concerned about voti...
By a 6-3 vote, the high court ruled that federal law allows the government to stop asylum seekers from physically setting foot in the United States, effectively keeping them from applying for asylum....
A federal judge on Thursday halted President Donald Trump’s executive order that sought to create a federal voter list and limit who can receive a mail ballot.U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani, who was nominated by Democratic President Barack Obama, sided with a coalition ...
Commissioners approved a resolution that backs up to $40 million for the spur highway.Bexar commissioners back proposed spur highway on South Side was first posted on June 25, 2026 at 9:43 am.©2021 "San Antonio Report". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use onl...
The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge rose to a new three-year high in May as gas prices peaked, a sign rising costs could pose political problems for President Trump as midterm elections near. The Commerce Department said Thursday that consumer prices rose 4.1% in May ...
Senate Republicans who were berated by President Donald Trump over opposition to his war in Iran held a late-night vote Wednesday to try to appease him, rejecting a war powers resolution a day after a similar measure passed.Trump harangued GOP senators face-to-face earlier in the...
Texas students are inching closer to attending social studies and reading classes that minimize racial, geographic and cultural diversity while emphasizing the Bible. The majority-Republican State Board of Education on Thursday morning granted preliminary approval to a rewrite o...
Senate Republicans who were berated by President Donald Trump over opposition to his war in Iran held a late-night vote Wednesday to try to appease him, rejecting a war powers resolution a day after a similar measure passed. Trump harangued GOP senators face to face earlier in th...
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani stepped into the national spotlight this week as an ascendant political force within the Democratic Party. Democratic leaders aren't so sure that's a good thing.As progressives cheered across the nation, some of the most powerful Democrats in th...
San Antonio City Councilwoman Misty Spears is in the hot seat after Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones publicized Spears’ request for tickets to Ye’s upcoming concert.Rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye, has sparked controversy over the last week after the San Antonio City Council learned he ...
The Balcones Heights mayor is categorically denying “every single complaint, every single allegation” against him from an investigation into his conduct, despite saying he has not seen the 35-page report of its findings.“I’m telling the people that are listening to me that they a...
Two SAISD trustees voted against the district’s newly named lone finalist for superintendent. Adrian Bustillos was previously sanctioned by TEA for his alleged role in a cheating scheme at El Paso ISD....
The San Antonio Independent School District Board of Trustees voted Dr. Adrian Bustillos as the district’s lone finalist for superintendent, according to a news release. The board voted on Wednesday during a special-called meeting. “We believe Adrian Bustillos is the leader for t...
Adrian Bustillos started his career in El Paso ISD as a science teacher in 2006. He's currently an executive for Aldine ISD in Houston.SAISD board picks lone finalist from Houston as superintendent was first posted on June 24, 2026 at 7:22 pm.©2021 "San Antonio Report". Use ...
“Would you really like to know?” Sen. Bill Cassidy asked President Donald Trump.Just hours after refusing to sign a bipartisan housing bill that Republicans hoped would boost their election-year prospects, the president was attending a private lunch Wednesday with the Senate GOP....
Despite San Antonio Spurs principal owner Peter J. Holt crying poor to City Council when talking about the team’s capacity to pay for a new arena, media reports suggest he still has access to enough cash to buy a large chunk of a Hawaiian island. Holt reportedly ponied up $8 mill...
The rise of Abelardo de la Espriella, a businessman and lawyer set to be Colombia's next president, is raising questions about whether political shifts underway across Latin America could reshape the future of the Amazon rainforest.The Colombia election result comes as Peru appea...
San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones said she’s directed city staff to amend rapper Ye’s contract so he agrees not to perform his song “Heil Hitler” and to refrain from selling any swastika merchandise during his planned July 4 concert at the Alamodome. “The fact that we even had t...
