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SAN ANTONIO – The 89th annual Battle of Flowers Fiesta Band Festival is back with some new sounds this year. For the first time, Conjunto music will be part of the festival at Alamo Stadium. KSAT’s RJ Marquez visited Edison High School to meet some of the students who are bringing the classic South Texas sound, music and culture to Alamo Stadium.“It’s an incredible honor. I play drums. I’ve been playing the drums since 8th grade,” said Maria Jose Ramirez, Edison student. “My dad is a singer, so is my mom and my brother, and so it was just something…
WASHINGTON – For the second time in recent months, the Food and Drug Administration is bringing back some recently fired employees, including staffers who handle travel bookings for safety inspectors.More than 20 of the agency’s roughly 60 travel staff will be reinstated, according to two FDA staffers notified of the plan this week, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss confidential agency matters.Food scientists who test samples for bacteria and study potentially harmful chemicals also have been told they will get their jobs back, but have yet to receive any official confirmation. The same uncertainty hangs over employees who…
MADRID – Coco Gauff overpowered defending champion Iga Swiatek 6-1, 6-1 to reach the Madrid Open singles final for the first time Thursday.Gauff broke Swiatek’s serve three times in the first set and twice in the second to cruise to a 64-minute semifinal victory over the second-ranked Swiatek at the clay-court tournament.Gauff will face top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka, who defeated Elina Svitolina 6-3, 7-5 to reach the Madrid final for the fourth time in her career.It was Gauff’s first win over Swiatek on clay.“The mentality that I had in the whole match was aggressive,” the fourth-ranked Gauff said. “Maybe it wasn’t…
A federal judge on Thursday barred the Trump administration from deporting any Venezuelans from South Texas under an 18th-century wartime law and said President Donald Trump’s invocation of it was “unlawful.”U.S. District Court Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr. is the first judge to rule that the Alien Enemies Act cannot be used against people who, the Republican administration claims, are gang members invading the United States. Rodriguez said he wouldn’t interfere with the government’s right to deport people in the country illegally through other means, but it could not rely on the 227-year-old law to do so.“Neither the Court nor the…
Subscribe to The Y’all — a weekly dispatch about the people, places and policies defining Texas, produced by Texas Tribune journalists living in communities across the state. This article is part of Running Out, an occasional series about Texas’ water crisis. Read more stories about the threats facing Texas’ water supply here.MIDLAND — On any given day, energy companies across the vast Permian Basin in West Texas inject millions of gallons of water into the dry brown earth, breaking up layers of rock on the hunt for crude oil.As oil and gas are extracted, water flows back up. It is…
Logan Cormier couldn’t be touched on the mound Friday afternoon for the Athol High School baseball team. As part of a complete game effort, the senior set down 13 batters by way of the “K”, leading the Bears to a 1-0 victory over Lenox. “Logan was in control today, and the boys were great behind him,” Athol coach Josh Talbot said. “He had four pitches working today and was able to go the distance without running his pitch count up.”Cormier allowed just four base runners throughout the entire game, and each one had to earn their way on with a…
Many of the big movies this summer might come from familiar places — whether they’re franchises, sequels or hybrid adaptations of beloved animated classics. But look closer and there are quite a few fresh faces making a splash with memorable characters new and old.The Associated Press spoke to 10 of the actors about the roles. Sydney Elizebeth Agudong and Maia Kealoha in “Lilo & Stitch”Maia Kealoha was 6 years old when she saw an advertisement for an open casting call for the new hybrid “Lilo & Stitch” movie and promptly told her parents that’s what she wanted to do. Now…
WASHINGTON – For the second time in recent months, the Food and Drug Administration is bringing back some recently fired employees, including staffers who handle travel bookings for safety inspectors.More than 20 of the agency’s roughly 60 travel staff will be reinstated, according to two FDA staffers notified of the plan this week, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss confidential agency matters.Food scientists who test samples for bacteria and study potentially harmful chemicals also have been told they will get their jobs back, but have yet to receive any official confirmation. The same uncertainty hangs over employees who…
NEW YORK – Uncertainty continues to hang over the latest round of financial results and forecasts for companies both big and small as they try to navigate a global trade system severely shaken by a shift in U.S. policy.Roughly half of the companies in the S&P 500 have reported their latest quarterly financial results, but the focus has been on how they will adjust to tariffs and any change in consumers’ behavior. Here’s a look a what companies are saying about tariffs and the potential impact:General MotorsGeneral Motors expects tariffs to inflict between $4 billion and $5 billion in damage…
Many of the big movies this summer might come from familiar places — whether they’re franchises, sequels or hybrid adaptations of beloved animated classics. But look closer and there are quite a few fresh faces making a splash with memorable characters new and old.The Associated Press spoke to 10 of the actors about the roles. Sydney Elizebeth Agudong and Maia Kealoha in “Lilo & Stitch”Maia Kealoha was 6 years old when she saw an advertisement for an open casting call for the new hybrid “Lilo & Stitch” movie and promptly told her parents that’s what she wanted to do. Now…