State of Texas: No Paxton vs. Talarico Senate debate yet. Here's the closest thing voters have to one
With a month left before Election Day, it remains unclear whether U.S. Senate candidates James Talarico and Ken Paxton will meet for a live debate.
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Trump advocates for mail and early voting despite historically opposing both
By Logan Schiciano, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said Americans should cast their ballot using “every appropriate tool,” in a pre-recorded video imploring Republicans to vote in the midterm elections, including using methods that he has historically opposed like early and m...
Last day to register for November elections is Monday in Texas
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) -- The El Paso County Elections Department reminds eligible citizens that Monday, Oct. 5 is the last day to register to vote in the November general election. The El Paso County Elections Department will continue to accept walk-ins who would like to register...
Los republicanos observan con preocupación cómo cae la aprobación de Trump en sus propias encuestas internas
Por Sarah Ferris y David Wright, CNN A cuatro semanas del día de las elecciones, un número cada vez mayor de republicanos en la Cámara de Representantes teme en privado que sus posibilidades de conservar la mayoría se estén desvaneciendo y ha comenzado a concentrarse en cómo limi...
Debris found as Coast Guard searches off Nantucket for missing medical transport jet that left Bermuda with 6 people aboard
By Eduardo Cuevas, David Williams, Sharif Paget, Maria Aguilar Prieto, CNN (CNN) — Debris from a missing medical transport jet has been found off the coast of Nantucket as the US Coast Guard continues searching for the aircraft and the six people on board after it disappeared ear...
Terrorist images found on Flydubai suspect’s social media
CNN By Abbas Al Lawati, Tal Shalev, Kylie Atwood, Isaac Yee, Avery Schmitz, Thomas Bordeaux, Teele Rebane, CNN (CNN) — The pilot suspected of having attacked another pilot aboard a Tel Aviv-bound Flydubai flight on Wednesday was removed from a previous job at Oman’s national airl...
Trump dará US$ 90 a las personas mayores para las primas de Medicare
Por Kaanita Iyer y Tami Luhby, CNN El presidente Donald Trump anunció a última hora del viernes que otorgará US$ 90 a unos 20 millones de personas mayores para ayudarles a pagar las primas de la Parte B de Medicare, su medida más reciente para distribuir fondos a ciertos estadoun...
Coast Guard searching for plane with 6 aboard that lost contact on trip from Bermuda to Boston
NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) — A plane with six people aboard lost contact during a flight from Bermuda to Boston, and the U.S. Coast Guard said it was searching Saturday for the missing aircraft off the coast of Nantucket. The Canadian-registered air ambulance jet had four crew members...
Trump to give $90 to senior citizens for Medicare premiums
By Kaanita Iyer, Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump said late Friday he will give around 20 million senior citizens $90 each to help pay for their Medicare Part B premiums, marking his latest effort to dole out funds to certain Americans weeks before the midterm elect...
Russia strikes another major bridge in Kyiv as attacks on Ukrainian capital escalate
By Svitlana Vlasova, Kara Fox, CNN (CNN) — A Russian strike hit Kyiv’s Northern Bridge on Saturday, marking the latest in a series of attacks on the city’s infrastructure as Moscow escalates its campaign on the Ukrainian capital. Two people were injured in Saturday’s attack, Kyiv...
Estados Unidos quiere independizarse de la tecnología china. ¿Valdrá la pena el esfuerzo?
Por Stephanie Yang, CNN Siete años después de fundar una empresa emergente de robótica en San Francisco, Rajat Bhageria se enfrenta a una nueva y formidable tarea: construir robots sin ninguna ayuda de China. Al igual que la mayoría de las empresas de robótica estadounidenses, Ch...
A growing number of House Republicans privately believe they won’t keep the majority
By Sarah Ferris, David Wright, CNN (CNN) — Four weeks to Election Day, a growing number of House Republicans privately fear their chances of holding onto the majority are vanishing and have begun focusing on how to limit the size of a potential Democratic wave. Inside the House G...
What 1,000 Iowans have to say about the impact of factory farming
The professor of political science remembers the neighbors emptying the waste from thousands of birds onto fields. She and her brother would break out into rashes. An Independent voters organization co-founder and farm owner remembers his dad, who raised beef cattle and hogs, cal...
#9OT Football Scoreboard: Week 6, 2026
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — KTSM 9 Overtime is back with all the high school football action! One game took place on Thursday and more games will continue on Friday. Tune in at 10:15 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 2, for 9 Overtime for highlights and final scores with Sam Guzman, Jesus Baltaza...
Registered to vote Nov. 3? Here’s what you need to know before the deadline
El Pasoans who want their voices heard at the polls have until Monday, Oct. 5, to register to vote in the November elections that will include a slew of local, state and federal races. Among the races are four City Council representative seats, county judge position, two county c...
Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton touts experience, asks for prayers in El Paso campaign stop
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, talked about his accomplishments, plans to help Texas families and the need for GOP voters to be involved during a Wednesday campaign stop in El Paso. Paxton, 63, also made time to belittle his Democratic ...
Monday Is the Last Day to Register to Vote
EL PASO, Tx., September 30, 2026: Monday is the last day to register to vote for Texas’ next governor, other state offices and El Paso’s four open city council seats. […] The post Monday Is the Last Day to Register to Vote appeared first on El Paso Herald Post ....
Texas Lt. Governor addresses data centers during El Paso campaign stop
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick (R) made a campaign stop in El Paso on Monday afternoon, Sept. 28. Patrick is seeking re-election in the upcoming general election on Nov. 3. He addressed data centers and the community's concerns: "People are concerne...
Navy aviators eject during carrier landing off Virginia
Four individuals on board the carrier were injured during the incident, and one sailor was transported to a hospital in the Norfolk, Va.
What to watch in CNN’s California governor race debate
By Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — A majority of California’s likely voters say they think the state is heading in the wrong direction. The question the race for governor there will decide is whether those voters lay blame at the feet of the Democrats who run the state, or a Republican...
Destination restaurants worth traveling across the world for
By Chris Dwyer, CNN (CNN) — Some meals begin long before the first plate is served. They may start on a mountain road climbing through a remote valley, on board a ferry crossing an unfamiliar sea, or with a flight taken largely because a remarkable table waits at the other end. A...
Hegseth instructs Pentagon to defend 2026 elections from 'foreign actors'
The meddling of foreign actors and nations has been a concern for U.S. administrations.
Senate passes ‘Protect College Sports Act’ with sweeping bipartisan vote
The bill, among its top priorities, hands the NCAA sweeping federal antitrust protection shielding it from lawsuits around the enforcement of its rules and caps the amount of money student athletes can be paid for their name, image and likeness....
4 sailors injured after aviators eject while landing on US aircraft carrier off Virginia
By Brad Lendon, CNN (CNN) — Four US Navy sailors aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier were injured on Monday evening when an aircraft suffered a “mishap” while trying to land on the ship off the coast of Virginia, with two aviators ejecting from the plane, the Nav...
Britain’s PM is on a ‘Burnham bounce.’ When will he fall to earth?
By Billy Stockwell, CNN London (CNN) — Some have dubbed it the “Burnham bounce.” That is, the surge in public support for the UK’s governing Labour Party after the former mayor of Manchester Andy Burnham took to the helm this summer as the country’s seventh prime minister in a de...
Hegseth directs military to defend US midterm elections from foreign interference
By Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has signed a memo directing the military to defend the US midterm elections from foreign interference, the Pentagon said Monday. US Cyber Command, the military’s cyberwarfare unit, and combat support agencies will “deplo...
Senate passes major bill to overhaul college sports
By Morgan Rimmer, CNN (CNN) — The Senate on Monday passed a major bill to overhaul college athletics with a large bipartisan vote, 77-22. The bill now moves to the House, but that chamber is on recess until after the November midterms, and it remains to be seen whether it will ba...
Kurt Olsen, key Trump 2020 election denier, departs Justice Department
By Hannah Rabinowitz, Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — Kurt Olsen, a lawyer who aided President Donald Trump’s 2020 election reversal schemes before joining his second administration, left the Justice Department Monday, a person familiar with the departure told CNN. Olsen – a key elect...
Senate nears vote on college sports bill that would rein in athlete payments and transfers
The Senate is poised to pass a sweeping bipartisan bill on Monday that would regulate college sports, an attempt to end “chaos” in an industry that has been upended by skyrocketing athlete payments and near-unrestricted transfers between schools....
City Council authorizes ongoing negotiations to protect ratepayers from Meta data center energy facility
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City of El Paso seeks protections in data center power plant case
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) -- The El Paso City Council heard an update on El Paso Electric's application to construct a power plant to serve the Meta data center and said it will continue to advocate for protections for El Paso Electric customers. The City said it will continue to see...
Highest tax rates, lowest tax bills: The complicated reality of El Paso property taxes
El Paso property tax bills will hit the mail over the next few weeks, right at the same time that voters will start casting early votes for the Nov. 3 general election. Most local governments raised property taxes this year, as both their budgets and those of taxpayers are strain...
Fact check: Trump lies again that grocery prices ‘have come way down’ this term
By Daniel Dale, CNN (CNN) — Facing abysmal poll numbers on inflation as the midterm elections approach, President Donald Trump is sticking to the communications strategy he tried in the summer: lie. Trump has tried for months to concoct an alternate reality in which the country h...
Hispanic voters turn toward Democrats in redistricted Texas, Florida
(The Hill) – Hispanic voters swung to the right in the last election, but Republicans appear to be losing ground with the key voting bloc, potentially complicating the party’s path to victory in the redistricted red strongholds of Texas, Florida and beyond. Recent polling has sig...
Los agentes de IA prometen hacer todo por ti, pero podría haber un gran obstáculo en ese plan
Por Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Meta quiere que su nuevo agente de IA, Muse, sea la puerta de entrada a la vida digital de los usuarios. Pero todo depende de si las aplicaciones y servicios más populares están dispuestos a darle acceso. Los agentes van un paso más allá respecto a cómo la...
Taxpayer-funded ads could be 'impeachable offense': Former White House ethics attorney
Both of the spots include disclaimers which say, “Paid for by the U.S. Government.” Under the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, public officials cannot use taxpayer dollars for campaigning purposes....
Schumer, Dems at odds as leader aims to kill Ohio Republican's data center bill
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) is aiming to kill a bill sponsored by Republican Sen. Jon Husted (Ohio) to protect taxpayers from additional costs posed by AI-driven data centers, but his Democratic caucus isn’t fully on board after House Democrats overwhelmingly vo...
El Paso’s young voter numbers are strong. Will they show up to the polls?
A few weeks shy of the Nov. 3 midterm elections, El Paso Community College finance student Raul Triste-Herrera is excited to exercise his political voice. He’s in the minority – a young adult who wants to vote. “I try to encourage (family and friends) about voting, but they are m...
Hurricane Polo could cause life-threatening flooding in Mexico’s Baja California peninsula
PUERTO SAN CARLOS, Mexico (AP) — Residents of Mexico’s Baja California Sur state boarded up homes and workers hauled dirt and rubble to shore up embankments as Hurricane Polo bore down on the peninsula Monday, threatening high winds, floods and mudslides. Meanwhile, Hurricane Nol...
A California sheriff seized ballots. The court ruling shutting the probe will resonate nationwide
By Jeremy Herb, Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — The California Supreme Court shut down a right-wing sheriff’s efforts to seize and investigate ballots over debunked allegations of vote “discrepancies,” in a legal fight that has helped election officials prepare for any similar attempt...
Oregon State crushed UTEP 33-7 at the Sun Bowl
El Paso (KVIA) -- Oregon State took down UTEP 33-7 Saturday night at the Sun Bowl. The Beavers jumped out to a 17-0 lead in the first quarter and added another three points before halftime to take a 20-0 advantage into the break. UTEP finally got on the scoreboard in the third qu...
El Paso Locomotive FC continue unbeaten streak, play to 1-1 draw against FC Tulsa
EL PASO, TEXAS – September 25, 2026 – El Paso Locomotive FC split the points with FC Tulsa on Friday night, playing to a 1-1 draw at Southwest University Park. The result extended the Locos’ unbeaten streak to nine games. FC Tulsa was the first team to get on the board, finding t...
Los republicanos temen perder dos contiendas clave por el Senado
Por Lauren Fox, Patrick Svitek y Dianne Gallagher, CNN Crece la preocupación entre algunos republicanos de que dos contiendas clave por el Senado —que en su momento se consideraron cruciales para mantener su mayoría— se les estén escapando de las manos. En más de una docena de en...
A rural county banned renewables. It’s having second thoughts
Jeff Hough did not pull any punches. What his fellow Republican county commissioners were about to do, he said to the packed courthouse, would violate America’s founding ideals. He quoted the Declaration of Independence to make his case. The three-person commission was about to v...
CNN says its press pool reporters were barred from boarding Air Force One
The move comes after Trump attempted to ban CNN, along with MS NOW and Politico, from accessing the White House earlier this week.
White House bars CNN from covering Trump on behalf of major TV networks as he travels to Tennessee
CNN By Brian Stelter, Alayna Treene, CNN (CNN) — The White House is barring CNN from flying on Air Force One on Saturday as part of the news outlet’s duties covering the president on behalf of major television networks. CNN had been scheduled to fly aboard the president’s plane o...
En Cuba, la crisis energética desafía los desafíos imperceptibles de vivir sin luz
Por Juan Carlos López, CNN en Español Osiris Hernández es guía desde hace 29 años en la Cueva del Indio, atracción turística de Viñales, municipalidad en el oeste de Cuba. El recorrido que dirige termina en un bote que, al salir de la cueva, desemboca en una plazoleta vacía. Esa ...
#9OT Scoreboard for Week 5, 2026
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) -- KTSM 9 Overtime is back with all the high school football action. Tune in at 10:15 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 25, for 9 Overtime for highlights and final scores with Sam Guzman, Jesus Baltazar and Jason Flores. Thursday, Sept. 24 Team Final Team SCORE CORONADO...
Supreme Court rejects GOP’s third effort to capture Democratic House seat in Missouri
By John Fritze, CNN (CNN) — The third time was not the charm. The Supreme Court on Friday rejected an effort to use a congressional map in Missouri for the November midterm elections that would have given Republicans an opportunity to pick up an extra House of Representatives sea...
El Paso detention facilities pass unannounced State inspections
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office announced that both the El Paso County Downtown Detention Facility and Jail Annex successfully passed unannounced state inspections. The Texas Commission on Jail Standards (TCJS) conducted inspections with thorough revie...
Supreme Court allows use of citizenship database in midterm elections
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Supreme Court says states can use controversial citizenship data tool for voter audits in win for Trump
By Tierney Sneed, CNN (CNN) — In a major win for President Donald Trump’s efforts to find non-citizen voters, the Supreme Court on Friday said states can use a controversial citizenship data collection tool for reviewing voter rolls. The court’s unsigned opinion rejected argument...