University Health and Bexar County will offer free drive-thru flu vaccinations at four September and October events as medical experts warn they expect a rough flu season. Adults and children 6 months and older can receive the vaccinations without leaving the vehicles in which they arrive, according to University Health officials. Advance registration is required, […]
This story was originally published by ProPublica. The number of women who died after an ectopic pregnancy has spiked in recent years, a ProPublica analysis found. The mounting deaths in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data have drawn little scrutiny or response. Such deaths typically occur in the first trimester, after a pregnancy fails […]
Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel said Wednesday that his show won’t air a recently taped interview with Texas’ U.S. Senate hopeful James Talarico due to pressure from the Trump White House’s Federal Communications Commission. Instead, the interview will be posted to the Jimmy Kimmel Live YouTube channel Thursday. “Because in the America we live in right […]
More than 70% of Texas data centers have failed to respond to a survey sent out by state regulators as they work to compile data on the resource-intensive facilities’ water and power usage, according to the state’s own numbers. The inquiry, conducted by the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) and Public Utility Commission of Texas […]
San Antonio City Council on Thursday voted unanimously to confirm Jesse Salame Jr. as the city’s new chief of police, marking the first time an Alamo City native has permanently held the role in more than 20 years. City Manager Erik Walsh appointed Salame, a 27-year SAPD veteran, to lead the force after previous chief […]
DALLAS — When Attorney General Ken Paxton took the stage at the GOP’s midterm convention early Wednesday evening, he was quick to heap praise on President Donald Trump. “The press, the courts and the establishment all tried to take President Trump down, but he’s won every single time,” Paxton told conventiongoers at the beginning of […]
Grindr, the LGBTQ+ hookup app, is experiencing outages in Dallas after an unprecedented mid-term Republican convention got underway there on Wednesday — and social media users are quick to speculate why. “These so called anti-gay Crusaders certainly enjoy their sausage fest apps, don’t they?” @FozonCapital’s tweeted in response to a graphic reportedly showing the app’s service […]
“I really love San Antonio,” Kathleen Madigan told the Current within a minute of our phone call. “If it wasn’t so, so, so, so, so hot.” Those of us enduring endless days of 100-plus-degree heat might be suspicious of her restraint to avoid an expletive, but Madigan’s relationship with Texas and San Antonio in particular […]
Texas’ prison agency has asked the Legislature for $298 million over the next two years to add more than 15,700 air conditioned beds, saying the request will help deliver “significant and measurable progress” toward addressing dangerous summer heat in state lockups. Inmate advocates are less enthused, calling the budget request a sign of “deliberate indifference” […]
Facing increasingly tight polling and an apparent inability to make dirt stick on their Democratic rivals, two of Texas’ highest-profile Republican elected officials have resorted to using artificial intelligence to generate phony footage for their attack ads. Lt. Gov. Patrick used controversial AI deepfake technology in a spot that debuted over Labor Day weekend mocking […]