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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · Nov 20

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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 11h

Data from a large, ongoing study of adolescents shows a link between increasing social media use and lower cognition and memory in teens.

Kids who use social media score lower on reading and memory tests, a study shows

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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 13h

The New Braunfels school board voted Monday evening to “temporarily suspend student access to all secondary libraries and all secondary library materials effective immediately while the district ensures compliance with Senate Bill 13.”

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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 15h

The rice products include Original Long Grain White, Whole Grain Brown, and Long Grain & Wild Ready Rice products. The recall is “due to the possible presence of small, naturally occurring stones originating from the rice farm.”

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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 16h

Meals on Wheels San Antonio is suspending food delivery services for hundreds of senior clients in the first week of November due to major budget cuts. The home meal delivery nonprofit said a funding reduction from AACOG forced the decision.

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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 17h

North East ISD has five bond propositions on the November ballot, including $400 million for school upkeep and $53 million for technology.

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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 19h

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 19h

A Texas State spokesperson said Monday evening that the professor’s employment had been “terminated, effective immediately” after a university review.

Texas State University professor fired again after court revoked initial firing over 'inciting violence'

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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 20h

Many of the headlines marking the passing of actress Diane Keaton this weekend have mentioned Annie Hall, the film that earned her an Oscar and made her a distinctively haphazard fashion icon. But there was always more to her, and audiences sensed that.

Diane Keaton moved with grace through dozens of character arcs, and into audience hearts

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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 21h

In San Antonio, a group of grandmothers, ages 73 to 86, formed a folklórico dance group known as Las Abuelitas de Oro. Ballet folklórico is a traditional Mexican dance that combines regional dance with the techniques of ballet.

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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 21h

New 2025 testing data shows third- through eighth-graders scored far below 2019 levels in reading. In math, some grades have made gains, but all are lagging compared to before the pandemic.

In reading, the nation's students are still stuck in a pandemic slump

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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 22h

Commissioners will take up the development or preservation of around 1,250 affordable housing units downtown. Those units are part of an agreement the county reached with San Antonio ISD as part of the development of a new Missions baseball stadium downtown.

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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 22h

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said Camp Mystic leaders would be invited to testify before the committees, as part of what Speaker Dustin Burrows said would be a “comprehensive and thorough review.”

New legislative panels will investigate “facts and circumstances” of deadly Central Texas floods

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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 23h

Your right to read is being infringed upon, and librarians have become the first responders in the fight for democracy and First Amendment rights. Texas has become ground zero as sweeping book bans are adopted at an unprecedented rate.

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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 1d

In Girl Warrior, Joy Harjo shares stories about her own coming of age to bring to light pivotal moments of becoming—among them, forgiveness, failure, falling, rising up, honoring those who came before and making space for those who will come after us.

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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 1d

With no end in sight to the funding standoff, financial anxiety is growing. One single mom in Colorado raided her retirement savings to get through the shutdown.

"It feels terrible." Federal worker's family tightens their belts as shutdown drags on

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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 1d

The Jewish Federation of San Antonio also lowered a banner featuring images of the hostages that has been up for much of their ordeal.

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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 1d

According to reporting by the Wall Street Journal, Paxton told a lender in 2018 he’d amassed a net worth of about $5.5 million, and the following year had another $2.2 million gain from his investment in a company with a lucrative state contract.

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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 1d

As Halloween approaches slasher movies draw their biggest audiences as All Things Considered host Andrew Limbong talks with NPR's Brianna Scott and Ryan Benk about what keeps the genre alive and why it still fascinates audiences.

Why slasher movies still have us watching through our fingers

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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 1d

Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.

Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent

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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 1d

Saturday's decisions signal a deescalating intraparty tension that heightened at the start of the year.

Texas GOP censures five lawmakers, but rejects banning anyone from the primary ballot

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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 1d

As Bexar County voters prepare to cast ballots on a possible venue tax increase for a proposed downtown home for The Spurs, SA Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones takes listeners' questions. Read More👉 ebx.sh/bJ5p7i

Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 2d

Multiple sources tell NPR that, as part of the Trump administration's latest reduction-in-force, the U.S. Department of Education has gutted the office that handles special education.

Amid shutdown, Trump administration guts department overseeing special education

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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 2d

The study of more than 27,000 people over several years found that poor sleep health, along with inflammation, can lead to a brain-age gap that can have serious consequences.

A new study suggests poor sleep health can make your brain age faster

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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 2d

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the Nobel memorial prize in economics Monday for their research on how technological innovation fuels economic growth and creative destruction.

3 share Nobel Prize in Economics for work on technology, growth and creative destruction

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Texas Public Radio @texaspublicradio.bsky.social · 2d

The release by Hamas of living Israeli hostages began an expected swap of hostages for prisoners. In turn, Israel will be releasing nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees as part of the ceasefire agreement.

In a major milestone, Hamas releases final group of living Israeli hostages

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