The pastor of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s home church in Tennessee last week said on a podcast that he wants Texas Democrat and U.S. Senate hopeful James Talarico to die, the HuffPost reports. Evangelical Pastor Brooks Potteiger, who’s been described as Hegseth’s closest spiritual adviser by The Guardian, repeatedly attacked Talarico on the podcast Reformation Red Pill, […]
Two congressman accuse the Department of Homeland Security and the Texas Department of Public Safety of covering up ICE’s involvement in the shooting. The post House Oversight members want probe into death of San Antonio man Ruben Ray Martinez appeared first on San Antonio Current.
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. Reporting supported by the Water Desk at the University of Colorado, Boulder. BROWNSVILLE — An experiment unfolding at the southernmost tip of this state could irrevocably change the iconic […]
The City of San Antonio wants public input on a potential name change for César E. Chávez Boulevard in the wake of troubling allegations about the labor icon. An online survey is open now until 5 p.m. Thursday, April 2, to offer suggestions on what to rename the major thoroughfare, which bisects downtown between Southwest […]
If the Alamo City office continues its current pace, its number of arrests will rise 60% over last year, a New York Times data analysis shows. The post San Antonio’s ICE field office conducted agency’s fourth-highest number of arrests this year appeared first on San Antonio Current.
Texas’ Republican-backed book banning law, Senate Bill 13, is rearing its head in the San Antonio suburb of New Braunfels this month as the school district there pulled more than 1,500 titles from school library shelves. Some of those books subjected to New Braunfels ISD’s ban include memoirs by former President Barack Obama and Texas […]
U.S. Vice President JD Vance is visiting Texas this week for high-dollar fundraisers ahead of of an expected 2028 presidential run. The Republican National Convention fundraisers, where attendance runs $100,000, will take place in Austin and Dallas, and they’re being hosted by some of the party’s deepest-pocketed donors, including Austin billionaire and Palantir co-founder Joe […]
Only 100 people are currently detained in the federal government’s controversy-plagued family detention center at Dilley, nonprofit news outlet ProPublica reports. That compares to an average daily population of more than 900 in January. The Current first reported on a sharp drop in the immigrant prison camp’s population on March 10, when U.S. Rep. Joaquin […]
National Cocktail Day arrives on Tuesday, March 24, which sounds like a good excuse for a tipple. But isn’t any day a good excuse for a tipple? In honor of the upcoming food holiday, the Current spoke to several San Antonio bartenders to spotlight the stories behind their spirits — and to celebrate the creativity and […]
Trump administration officials revised a document advising how ICE officers should interact with parents, removing the word ‘humane.’ The post Trump has detained the parents of more than 11,000 U.S. citizen kids appeared first on San Antonio Current.