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The Knicks Are Hogging the Spotlight. Spurs Fans Aren’t Impressed.

As New York basks in the attention of a long-awaited N.B.A. finals run, many San Antonians say the Spurs, and the city they represent, are being underestimated.

© Christopher Lee for The New York Times

Spurs fans at an outdoor watch party at The Pearl for Game 3 of the NBA Finals in San Antonio.
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Paxton’s Senate Bid Raises the Stakes in His War on Latino Voting Groups

The Texas attorney general has mounted an all-out effort to prove Democratic Hispanic groups have been corrupting elections. Now he could be the beneficiary of his own attacks.

© Meridith Kohut for The New York Times

“It felt like we were getting hit by another disaster,” Cesar Espinosa said. In 2024, he was served with a lawsuit to dissolve his immigrant rights group because of posts that denounced Texas immigration policies.
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First U.S. Screwworm Case Since 1960s Prompts Texas Emergency Response

The infections are the first detected in the United States since the 1960s. Officials are aggressively trying to prevent the parasite from spreading in the nation’s largest cattle-producing state.

© Kaylee Greenlee/Reuters

Officials are dispersing millions of sterile screwworm flies in the vicinity of where the infected calf was found.
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