9 h. ago The San Antonio Spurs want to spend at least $500M on a new arena. Now they need help from voters

Voters in Bexar County, Texas, are set to decide on November 4 whether to allow $311 million in venue taxes to go toward helping build a new arena for the San Antonio Spurs

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19 h. ago Big Tech is paying millions to train teachers on AI, in a push to bring chatbots into classrooms

The country’s largest teachers unions are teaming up with tech companies like Microsoft and OpenAI to help educators build literacy in artificial intelligence

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8 d. ago Myanmar's military acknowledges attacking festival, accuses resistance forces of using human shields

Myanmar’s military government has acknowledged that it attacked a Buddhist festival held on the grounds of a school earlier this week

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2 w. ago Popular holiday destination flooded as red alert issued and airport 'leaks rain'

Several roads across the Balearic Islands were closed, and a school in the lively party town of San Antonio was evacuated for safety reasons

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2 w. ago Children left short of clean water and sleep amid ‘prolonged’ detention by Ice, watchdog groups allege

Legal experts speak of ‘cruel’ and harmful deprivations for families held in Texas immigration facilityChildren, including the very young, have been spending weeks or months in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) detention facility in a remote part of Texas where outside monitors have heard accounts of shortages of clean drinking water, chronic sleep deprivation and kids struggling for hygiene supplies and prompt medical attention, as revealed in a stark new court filing.Legal experts able to witness conditions made a barrage of allegations about deprivations, violations of legally agreed basic detention standards and humanitarian concerns at the only known Ice center currently holding families. At the facility in Dilley, a small town an hour south-west of San Antonio, kids and their parents described a “prison-like environment” where the guards reportedly call them “inmates” despite them not being criminals, and said they live in “cell-like trailers”.prolonged, vaguely exp...

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3 w. ago Young siblings aged three and six die after mom says they were inside hot car...but cops find holes in her story

Mother Tiona Islar told police she last saw her children alive in her San Antonio area home around 10am on Saturday.

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3 w. ago Mom arrested after her two kids, aged 6 and 3, die in a hot car as she took a nap: ‘I just hope that the babies are at peace’

Tiona Lasaisha Islar, 28, was arrested after the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO) found "inconsistencies" in the story that she gave to authorities, Sheriff Javier Salazar told the media in the aftermath of the incident

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4 w. ago Popular salad chain run by former Krispy Kreme exec is closing a quarter of its restaurants

Salad and Go will permanently close all locations in Houston, Austin, and San Antonio, along with several stores in the Dallas area and across Oklahoma

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