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Trump visiting Kerrville today, one week after Texas flood tragedy
The president will be joined by officials including Gov. Greg Abbott, who’s helping the White House dismantle FEMA.
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San Antonio Express-News’ parent company buying Dallas Morning News
The deal will give New York-based Hearst Corp. control of the daily newspapers in Texas’ four biggest cities.
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Kerrville mayor says he wasn’t aware of state resources that Gov. Abbott said were in place ahead of flooding
The governor said Tuesday that the state had “assets, resources and personnel” in place before the July 4 floods.
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says asking who’s to blame for Kerrville flood deaths is ‘word choice of losers’
Abbott also compared the tragedy to football, adding we’re going to ‘win this game.’
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Trump White House plans to install 17-mile buoy barrier along Rio Grande in South Texas
The project could cost taxpayers around $90 million, according to one estimate.
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San Antonio man gets 10 years in prison on charge he smuggled 25 migrants in a tanker
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol reports a 93% decrease in illegal border crossings so far this year.
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Rescue helicopter over Kerrville flood zone collides with personal drone
The collision with the recreational drone grounded the helicopter as it searched for survivors.
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Early information suggests much blame to go around in tragic Central Texas flooding
Local authorities were delayed in posting about the flood and said there is no flood alarm system.
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Firefighters travel from Mexico to aid Texas flood recovery
‘Solidarity without borders,’ the international crew said in a Facebook post announcing it’s here to save lives.
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U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz was on vacation in Europe during Texas flood
‘Cancun Cruz’ was photographed touring ancient ruins in Greece as the death toll climbed in Texas.
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Trump’s legislation will constrict the growth of Texas’ clean energy industry and its power grid
Solar energy now makes up almost 20% of the grid’s capacity and 40% of new gigawatts in line for interconnection, with power demands surging.
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Texas’ immigration law is unconstitutional, appeals court rules
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling means that Senate Bill 4, which allows local police to arrest suspected undocumented immigrants, continues to be blocked.
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Assclown Alert: Chip Roy high fives colleagues after passing the budget bill he called ‘garbage’
Few love ‘garbage’ more than Oscar the Grouch — except Roy, a congressman who represents San Antonio and Austin.
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A ‘striking’ trend: After Texas banned abortion, more women nearly bled to death during miscarriage
A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.
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Another massive anti-Trump protest scheduled for downtown San Antonio this Saturday
The march is the first large-scale SA protest since June 14’s ‘No Kings’ rally, which brought 10,000 people into the streets.
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‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ passes House, bringing deep cuts to health coverage, food assistance for Texans
An estimated 1.6 million Texans will lose healthcare coverage as a result of the bill, San Antonio U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro said.
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How Republicans are willfully endangering immigrant kids
GOP lawmakers often claim they want to protect children, but their policy decisions tell a different story.
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Australian firm set to take over San Antonio’s Alamo Beer, inject new resources
Alamo Beer, the city’s largest craft brewer, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in February.
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Texas says undocumented immigrants visited local hospitals 80K times in 3 months. That’s 2% of all visits.
While the state says undocumented patients cost hospitals $329 million over three months, critics say the data lacks payment information and more context.
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San Antonio-Austin GOP Rep. Chip Roy calls Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill ‘garbage’
Roy said the bill’s chances of passing before Trump’s arbitrary July 4 deadline are ‘a hell of a lot lower than they were even 48 hours ago.’