KTSA-AM (San Antonio, TX)

SAN ANTONIO (KTSA News) — President Trump is raising new allegations against China when it comes to elections in the United States. Suspicion has continued since the 2020 Presidential Election, but the mainstream media has downplayed those concerns repeatedly. Having said that, Trump’s latest accusations may start to change the discussion.

SAN ANTONIO (KTSA News) — The San Antonio Police Department is investigating an officer-involved-shooting that left a man dead early Thursday morning. Acting Police Chief Jesse Salame says two officers noticed a suspicious man riding a bicycle around 2 a.m. in the 800 block of Hammond Avenue on the East Side. The probationary officer and a training officer followed the man when he refused to stop, and they were able to engage him in front of a home after calling for backup.

U.S. aviation safety investigators announced Thursday they are taking over the probe into a Ryanair flight from Greece that left passengers scrambling minutes after takeoff, when a window dislodged and a man was partially sucked out of the plane before being pulled back inside.

SpaceX’s mega Starship rocket came within a second or so from blasting off on a test flight Thursday, but some of the engines failed to ignite, triggering a launch abort amid billowing clouds of smoke and vapor. Elon Musk, the company’s founder and CEO, said two engines will be replaced “to be confident of a good flight” before sending Starship from Texas on a space-skimming journey halfway around the world.

ATLANTA (AP) — President Donald Trump’s teleprompter operator is on unpaid leave after reports that he used his inside knowledge to make bets about the president’s speeches on the online prediction market Kalshi, the White House said Thursday. The firm’s enforcement chief said Kalshi contacted federal regulators about bets allegedly made about what the president would say in public addresses.

UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Dangerous flooding in Texas has intensified after days of pounding rain, sending emergency crews scrambling to rescue people from the rising waters before sunrise Thursday and setting off urgent warnings from forecasters: “Move to higher ground now!” The National Weather Service in San Antonio said a “large and deadly flood wave” was barreling down the same river devastated by floods a year ago when two dozen children and counselors were killed at Camp Mystic.

The U.S. Coast Guard said the search for three boaters missing after their vessel sank in San Francisco Bay near Alcatraz Island was suspended at sunset on Wednesday. One other person died shortly after being pulled from the water. Coast Guard Commander Jarod Toczko told an afternoon press conference that crews had searched over 950 square nautical miles and 1,700 miles of track line for 23 hours straight since the initial capsizing and rescue operation.

SYDNEY (AP) — More than 500 people are feared dead after reports that two boats carrying members of Myanmar’s persecuted Rohingya minority have capsized in the Bay of Bengal, officials said Thursday.

SAN ANTONIO (KTSA News) — Dozens of people are safe after several high-water rescues in Boerne on Wednesday. The Boerne Police Department responded to more than 100 calls for service between 8 a.m. and 2:45 p.m. as heavy rain fell on the San Antonio area. A total of 36 calls resulted in water rescues, and 53 people got help finding temporary shelter. Three people trapped in vehicles had to be rescued by swift-water recue teams.

In the weeks after Donald Trump lost to Joe Biden in 2020, the people Trump appointed to run the Department of Justice, cybersecurity agencies and intelligence departments all said the same thing — the election was fair, legitimate and free of major fraud or foreign interference. In his second term, Trump, a Republican, has tried to use the levers of power to rewrite that well-settled history, something that he’s expected to try again on Thursday night with an address to the nation.