NBA commentator Charles Barkley was so disgusted with the New Orleans Pelican’s playoff performance that he said the team doesn’t deserve a trip to Cancun but rather to Galveston. “We’re not even going to send them to Cancun,” Barkley quipped Saturday on TNT after the team’s 106-85 loss against the Oklahoma City Thunder. “We’re going to send […]
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Arrests resumed Monday at the University of Texas at Austin amid ongoing demonstrations in support of Palestinians.
In news that may not surprise those active in the dating scene, a new study found that Tinder is the mobile app users most want to delete. Online privacy company TorGuard analyzed more than 40 popular U.S. apps and isolated how many times users did Google searches for “how to delete [my] ___ account” or similar […]
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the Biden administration Monday for expanding federal sex discrimination protections under Title IX to include LGBTQ+ students. Title IX is a sweeping civil rights law that prohibits […]
San Antonio-based grocery chain H-E-B has issued a voluntary recall of multiple Creamy Creations ice cream products, saying they may include metal fragments. The affected products — 12-count packages of 3-ounce cups in Chocolate, Lime/Orange sherbet and Homemade Vanilla and Chocolate combo packs — were distributed to all H-E-B stores in Texas and Mexico along […]
Victor Wembanyama and the Spurs are heading to the star player’s hometown of Paris next season for a two-game series against the Indiana Pacers, team officials said Monday. The Silver and Black will play Thursday, Jan 23, and Saturday, Jan 25, in the City of Lights, according to details shared by the franchise. Fans looking […]
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U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz’s proposal to let members of Congress circumvent pesky airport checkpoints and get private screenings while traveling by air has been grounded by a fellow lawmaker, The Hill reports. Mississippi U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, the ranking Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee, issued an objection dropping Cruz’s measure from the current Federal […]
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. When the wave of protests related to the Israel-Hamas war washed over Texas colleges this week, most schools didn’t see much of a stir. Students staged a sit-in near the president’s office at […]
Two people are dead and four more injured after a shooting early Sunday morning at Market Square as Fiesta was winding down, according to San Antonio police. In a 2 a.m. tweet, San Antonio Police Department Chief William McManus said two suspects who fired shots at each other at Market Square had died and four […]