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For most of the 11 years that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has held statewide office, scandals have followed him. And for just as long, political opponents have used his various legal troubles as campaign ammunition against Paxton in elections. Those challengers have describ...
The Republican-majority State Board of Education is scheduled to vote this week on adopting curriculum changes statewide. Critics say the new social studies lessons and reading lists over-emphasize Christianity....
Two of South Carolina’s top officeholders will compete one-on-one for the Republican nomination for governor in a primary runoff election on Tuesday. Voters will also select nominees for a handful of congressional races and other contests in which no candidate received a majority...
Democratic nomination contests for New York’s seats in the closely divided U.S. House take center stage Tuesday in a state primary where relatively few of the state’s top officeholders will appear on the ballot.One incumbent who is not up for election but has emerged as a key fig...
Texas students may soon attend social studies and reading classes that minimize racial, geographic and cultural diversity while emphasizing the Bible. The State Board of Education has two pivotal votes slated for this week that would usher in these changes: one on a rewrite of Te...
Simon Boyd’s firm makes prefabricated steel structures on the south coast of England and ships them to customers as far away as Ghana and Barbados. Mike Hawes represents Britain’s carmakers as the head of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.The business leaders were on...
New York's congressional candidates have a final chance to make their case Monday on the last full day of campaigning before a primary election in which an ascendant progressive left is taking on establishment Democrats.The races have become bellwethers of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's ...
A polarized Colombia gave conservative political outsider Abelardo de la Espriella a razor-thin lead in a runoff election that will be challenged in the coming days by the ruling party’s progressive candidate.De la Espriella, a business owner and lawyer who earned U.S. President ...
Deeply divided voters in Colombia are choosing the country's next president in a runoff Sunday that pits a progressive against a conservative outsider, with both candidates tapping into fears of a renewed internal conflict in the country.Their choice is between businessman and la...
The UK banned his concerts. Now city leaders, including Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones, want to cancel a show scheduled for July 4 at the Alamodome.Kanye’s last-minute Alamodome show faces pushback over anti-semitic comments was first posted on June 20, 2026 at 7:29 pm.©2021 "San An...
San Antonio Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones expressed her concerned opinions through social media on Saturday about the Alamodome hosting a Ye concert next month.The Grammy Award winning rapper, Ye — formerly known as Kanye West — has been involved in multiple controversial moments throug...
The State Board of Education is preparing to vote next week on requiring Texas schoolchildren to read about a dozen Bible passages and religious stories, stepping into the long-running debate over religion’s — and specifically Christianity’s — place in the public school classroom...
In a story published Jun. 19, 2026, about Democratic socialists, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson was endorsed by the Chicago chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America. He was not....
San Antonio City Council on Thursday voted 6-5 on Thursday to postpone a vote and further discussion on a proposed rate hike by San Antonio Water Systems (SAWS) until October. Some of those who voted to push back said they did so because they don’t fully trust the current leaders...
Editor’s note: This story was corrected to include the accurate percentage for the proposed tax increase. In a rare moment of unity, the majority of San Antonio City Council appears to agree Thursday that the proposed budget thrown together by City Manager Erik Walsh is a nonstar...
The San Marcos City Council voted Tuesday night to prohibit data centers within city limits, Austin TV station KXAN reports. The college town is in the epicenter of data center gold rush along I-35 between San Antonio and Austin. The heavily trafficked corridor is experiencing th...
The municipal development district of a small Texas border town is suing the federal government to stop construction of the border wall in the area near Big Bend National Park. The municipal development district of Presidio — located some 250 miles east of El Paso — filed a feder...
