A man who taped a sinister note to a Chinese ex-official’s door in New Jersey was sentenced Wednesday to 16 months in prison.

Prosecutors have charged a Wisconsin man who allegedly told police he tried to burn down a congressman's office because he was upset over the federal TikTok ban with felony arson.

San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg appeared on KSAT Q&A to discuss numerous topics, including U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent executive orders.

Small businesses had a merry December, as shoppers wrapped up their holiday shopping.

U.S. stocks rose after more companies said they made bigger profits at the end of last year than analysts expected and as Treasury yields eased.

Gasoline prices in San Antonio have dropped by 11.1 cents per gallon over the past week, now averaging $2.58 per gallon, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 886 stations in the city.

World shares are higher ahead of the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, while bitcoin surged to a record high.

Billionaire's wealth has grown faster last year, and now the world can expect at least five trillionaires within a decade, even as the number of people in poverty has barely budged since 1990.

In 2022, the White House granted Venezuela a financial lifeline “to support the restoration of democracy” after President Nicolás Maduro promised to work toward an open presidential election, granting U.S. energy giant Chevron a permit to pump and export Venezuelan oil despite sanctions.

A U.S. official says immigration officers will target more than 300 people with histories of egregious, violent crimes next week after President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

Another blast of winter weather is expected in parts of the U.S. in the coming days, including bone-chilling wind in the Northern Plains and unusual snow and ice in the Gulf Coast area.

Defending champion Jannik Sinner has defeated 46th-ranked Marcos Giron of the U.S. 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 at the Australian Open.

Abortion policy could see more changes across the U.S. as President-elect Donald Trump begins his second term and state legislative sessions get rolling.

President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to broker a peace deal in Ukraine, but as he prepares to take office, peace seems as elusive as ever.

A federal court in New York has sentenced Mozambique’s former finance minister to another two-and-a-half years behind bars for his role in the “tuna bond” corruption scandal that triggered a financial crisis in the African nation.

Dixie Flag and Banner Company has been around for 67 years, their work has been commissioned for display at 7th U.S. Presidential inaugurations.

The CBP One app has brought nearly 1 million people to the U.S. on two-year permits with eligibility to work since January 2023, but it could end under President-elect Donald Trump.

U.S. stock indexes rallied to close out their best week in two months.

Coco Gauff and two-time defending champion Aryna Sabalenka have moved closer to another semifinal showdown at the Australian Open.

Labels on wine, distilled spirits and malt beverages in the U.S. would be required to list alcohol content and nutritional information per serving, plus notification of potential allergens, under two new rules proposed Thursday by the Treasury Department.

A federal judge in Texas is allowing three other states to pursue a challenge seeking to restrict access to the abortion pill mifepristone nationwide.

The U.S. has imposed sanctions on the leader of Sudan’s military in a devastating war that is spreading famine in that country.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken has defended Biden administration policies on Israel's war with Hamas after a ceasefire agreement in Gaza was reached.

One of NASA's two stuck astronauts is getting a change of scenery.

Taiwan computer chip maker TSMC has reported its profit in the last quarter rose 57%, buoyed by the artificial intelligence boom.

The supremely popular TikTok could be banned on Jan. 19 under a federal law that forces the video sharing platform to divest itself from its China-based parent company, ByteDance, or shut down its U.S. operations.

The Food and Drug Administration is ordering food and drug makers to remove a dye called Red 3 from the products U.S. consumers eat and drink.

Senior officials from President-elect Donald Trump’s administration have participated in a transition exercise hosted by President Joe Biden's team on responding to potential terror attacks and avian flu, among other challenges.

The yield on the 10-year Treasury has recently soared toward its highest level since 2023, injecting nervousness into the U.S. stock market that's knocked indexes from their records.

Outgoing U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Jen Easterly says she hopes her agency will be able to keep up its election-related work.

Britain’s government has confirmed that it will not finalize a deal to hand over sovereignty of the contested Chagos Islands to Mauritius until President-elect Donald Trump’s administration is consulted.

The U.S. Treasury Department is expanding the web of sanctions on companies and institutions supporting Russia’s war efforts in Ukraine.

SpaceX has launched a pair of lunar landers for U.S. and Japanese companies looking to jumpstart business up there.

Immigration is a top issue many Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders want the federal government to focus on this year, according to a new poll.

U.S. stocks ripped higher after an encouraging update on U.S. inflation.

U.S. officials have announced the latest border data, and it suggests the Biden administration is poised to end its term without an expected bump in illegal border crossings.

A U.S. watchdog is suing Capital One for allegedly misleading consumers about its offerings for high-interest savings accounts — and “cheating” customers out of more than $2 billion in lost interest payments as a result.

The Biden administration is releasing a “roadmap” for maintaining government defenses against infectious diseases, just as President-elect Donald Trump pledges to dismantle some of them.

U.S. wholesale inflation rose last month on higher energy prices.

The Hondo High School’s FFA Meats team was named the Reserve National Champion over the weekend.

Most U.S. stocks rose following an encouraging update on inflation, but drops for Eli Lilly and some other influential stocks kept indexes in check.

Frances Tiafoe has thrown up during a first-round match at the Australian Open along the way to a five-set victory.

Among his first actions in office, new Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe issued a volley of orders targeting crime.

Aryna Sabalenka has started her bid to become the first woman in a quarter-century to win three consecutive Australian Open titles with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over 2017 U.S. Open champion Sloane Stephens.

A Panamanian national holiday remembering the killing of 21 protesters by police and U.S. troops in 1964 is taking on new resonance this year as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump threatens to take back control of the Panama Canal.

The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate ticked up again this week, remaining at its highest level since July.

The U.S. Interior Department says that no bids were submitted for this week’s oil and gas lease sale in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Puerto Rico’s new Gov. Jenniffer González Colón has appointed an energy czar to help pull the U.S. territory out of a power crisis as chronic outages persist.

The U.S. is set to provide Ukraine an additional $500 million in weapons quickly pulled from its existing stockpiles as the Biden administration works to get Kyiv in a stronger negotiating position before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

U.S. applications for unemployment benefits fell to their lowest level in nearly a year last week, pointing to a still healthy labor market with historically low layoffs.

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Vice President Kamala Harris plans to close out her term with an around-the-world trip.

A national rights group says more U.S. companies are providing strong benefits and protections to LGBTQ+ employees despite conservative activists pressuring high-profile brands to stop participating in the organization’s annual workplace report card.

A rare labor strike that began over the busy holidays and carried on into the new year has put a wrench in operations at the biggest U.S. ski resort.

The Biden administration is set to announce a massive, final weapons aid package for Ukraine as part of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s visit to Germany this week to meet with representatives of about 50 partner nations who have come to Ukraine’s defense since Russia invaded nearly three years ago.

The U.S. Defense Department has added major Chinese technology companies including gaming and technology company Tencent, artificial intelligence firm SenseTime and the world’s biggest battery maker CATL to its list of companies it says have ties to China’s military.

Good news on the U.S. economy is back to being bad for Wall Street.

The U.S. has transferred 11 Yemeni men to Oman after holding them for more than two decades without charge at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The first U.S. bird flu death has been reported.

Fewer than 1 in 1,000 U.S. adolescents with commercial insurance received gender-affirming medications during a recent five-year period.

Rising technology stocks helped U.S. indexes recover more of their holiday-season slide that bridged the new year.

A blast of snow, ice, wind and plunging temperatures stirred up dangerous travel conditions in parts of the central U.S. on Sunday.

A senior Hezbollah security official says leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike last year while inside the militant group’s war operations room.

Road conditions are beginning to deteriorate in the central U.S. as a mixture of snow, ice and plunging temperatures arrived.

A major winter storm began Saturday in the central U.S. and is forecast to move east over the next several days.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken will embark on what is expected to be his final overseas trip in office this weekend, traveling to South Korea, Japan and France.

National security adviser Jake Sullivan will travel to India for a visit focusing on cooperation on strategic technology, including in defense, space and artificial intelligence.

New vehicle sales in the U.S. rose 2.7% last year as prices and interest rates eased a bit, making SUVs, cars and trucks a little more affordable.

Ticket sales have broken a record ahead of U.S. rugby star Ilona Maher making her debut for the Bristol Bears women’s team.

Most of the U.S. holds its major primary and general elections in even-numbered years, but there are a handful of places where competitive congressional, state and local-level contests will be happening in 2025.

Wall Street snapped out of its holiday-season funk.

Aeromexico is the most on-time airline in the world, according to a data company that compiled figures for 2024.

Tesla’s global annual sales have fallen for the first time in more than a dozen years.

Jenniffer González Colón has been sworn in as Puerto Rico’s new governor as the island held for a normally ebullient ceremony overshadowed by widespread anger over a blackout that hit the U.S. territory days ago.

The cost of a math tutor ranges from $20 to $45, and it gets more expensive as the child gets older. However, ensuring that your child understands core math skills early on could help save money on a tutor later.

Electric power has been restored to nearly all affected customers across Puerto Rico after a sweeping blackout plunged the U.S. territory into darkness on New Year’s Eve.

A blackout has hit nearly all of Puerto Rico as the U.S. territory prepares to celebrate New Year’s.

Stock indexes closed mostly lower on Wall Street on the final day of another record-setting year.

Gas prices in San Antonio have decreased by 9 cents per gallon over the past week, now averaging $2.58 per gallon, according to GasBuddy’s survey of 886 stations in the city.

A U.S. official says arrests for illegally crossing the border from Mexico in December are little changed from a month earlier.

Solar storms may bring northern lights to several states in the northern U.

If you plan to dine out on New Year’s Eve, you might want to snag your table early.

Value was in vogue in 2024.

Stocks fell on Wall Street as a strong year for the market looks set to end on a sour note.

Although former U.S. President Jimmy Carter is now gone, his legacy will not only be remembered, but it’ll also continue with Habitat for Humanity.

If you’re planning on ringing in the new year quietly at home, you’re not alone.

Most Americans believe health insurance profits and coverage denials share responsibility for the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO — although not as much as the person who pulled the trigger.

U.S. and Azerbaijani officials have said weapons fire may have brought down an Azerbaijani airliner that crashed on Wednesday, killing 38 people.

U.S. officials say they asked for — and got — the retraction of an independent monitor's warning of imminent famine in north Gaza.

The World Health Organization’s director-general said airstrikes on Yemen’s main airport occurred as he was about to board a flight in the Houthi rebel-held capital of Sanaa.

Republicans in Congress plan to move quickly in their effort to overhaul the nation’s voting procedures, seeing an opportunity with control of the White House and both chambers of Congress.

What a wonderful year 2024 has been for investors.

Stock indexes drifted to a mixed finish on Wall Street as some heavyweight technology and communications sector stocks offset gains elsewhere in the market.

Shares are lower in Tokyo and Shanghai, two of only a handful of world markets open on Christmas day.

The U.S. Census Bureau currently is getting public feedback about how it should tally responses from people into new race and ethnicity groups.

The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency hit USAA with a cease-and-desist order on Dec. 18 regarding what the national bank regulator describes as “new or continuing violations” by USAA Federal Savings Bank.

Stocks closed higher on Wall Street ahead of the Christmas holiday, led by gains in Big Tech stocks.

Stocks closed higher on Wall Street at the start of a holiday-shortened week.

Netflix has secured the U.S. broadcasting rights to the Women’s World Cup in 2027 and 2031 as the streaming giant continues its push into live sports.

The number of executions in the U.S. remained near historic lows in 2024 and was mostly carried out in a small group of states.