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Fleming, Raynaud, Penda headline the list of best available players entering Round 2 of NBA draft

Freshmen dominated the first round of the NBA draft. That squeezed out some veteran college big men.

St. Joseph’s junior Rasheer Fleming, Stanford senior Maxime Raynaud, and fifth-year seniors in Creighton’s Ryan Kalkbrenner and Auburn’s Johni Broome are among those waiting to hear their name called entering the second round.

Bigs made up eight of the 30 first-round picks, with 18 freshmen and six international prospects taking up most of the slots.

Here’s a look at top prospects available when the two-day format resumes with Minnesota on the clock Thursday night:

Rasheer Fleming, St. Joseph’s

The 6-foot-8, 232-pound junior is coming off a productive season that included averaging 14.7 points, 8.5 rebounds for career-best outputs. He tied for fourth at the combine with a better than 7-5 wingspan, helping him average 1.5 blocks over the last two seasons.

He also proved he could stretch his range, going from shooting 31.3% on 3-pointers in his first two college seasons to 39% last year. Notably, he performed well in catch-and-shoot situations (in the 79th percentile) and finishing at the rim (89th percentile), according to Synergy’s analytics data.

Maxime Raynaud, Stanford

The 7-footer from France is a skilled a skilled 7-footer who averaged 20.2 points and 10.6 rebounds, putting himself alongside eventual No. 1 overall draft pick Cooper Flagg of Duke as the only unanimous first-team picks on The Associated Press’ All-Atlantic Coast Conference first team.

He has a rangy skillset. He rated in Synergy’s 78th percentile in converting on post-up chances, shooting 50.7% in those scenarios, while the 84th percentile for spot-up shooting. That showed in him making 67 3-pointers in 35 games last year.

Noah Penda, Le Mans Sarthe Basket (France)

The 6-8, 225-pound forward offers inside-out versatility and defensive potential. The 20-year-old averaged 10.3 points, 5.5 rebounds and 2.6 assists in 33 games last year in France’s top league, rating as “very good” by Synergy in halfcourt settings.

Penda also led the team in steals (1.3) and blocks (0.9), and showed playmaking ability with his nifty passing.

Ryan Kalkbrenner, Creighton

The 7-1, 257 pound player has long been a productive post presence, averaging 14.5 points and 2.4 blocks while shooting 65.8% through five college seasons. He shot 58.5% in post-up situations to rank in Synergy’s 87th percentile, and made 37 3-pointers in the last two years to show ability to step outside.

The AP third-team All-American started last season with 49 points in a game last year (second-most in Division I), and he had the combine’s second-longest wingspan (7-6).

Kam Jones, Marquette

The 6-3, 202-pound senior was an AP second-team All-American last year who averaged 19.2 points and 5.9 assists in a bigger role. He was particularly good as the ball handler in the pick-and-roll, shooting 50.8% in those situations to rank in Synergy’s 85th percentile while also performing well in finishing at the rim and in spot-up chances.

The four-year veteran missed two career games and was a finalist last year for the Cousy Award presented to the nation’s top point guard.

Johni Broome, Auburn

Broome offers an example of how elite college production doesn’t always equate to NBA potential. The 6-9, 249-pound big man was a first-team AP All-American averaging 18.6 points, 10.8 rebounds and 2.1 blocks for a Final Four team, part of an impressive rise from starting his five-year career at Morehead State.

Yet Broome plays below the rim and lacks elite athleticism, tying for the combine’s second-lowest max vertical leap (28.0). Synergy ranked his jumper as “below average,” raising uncertainty about his ability to stretch defenses (27.8% on 3s last year) and create space.

Others of note:

—ADOU THIERO: The 6-6, 218-pound forward from Arkansas averaged 15.1 points and 5.8 rebounds in a leading role as a junior with the Razorbacks under John Calipari, coming after spending two years under Calipari at Kentucky. The versatile athlete has a 7-foot wingspan.

—TYRESE PROCTOR: The 6-4, 183-pound junior from Duke can play on or off the ball while bringing defense and outside shooting. Last year he averaged 12.4 points and 40.5% shooting on 3s, though he struggled in each of the Blue Devils’ season-ending losses in the 2024 Elite Eight and 2025 Final Four (2 for 17 shooting in those games).

—JOHN TONJE: The 6-5, 212 pound guard is coming off a sixth college season in a career that began with four seasons at Colorado state, one injury-shortened season at Missouri and finally a big year with Wisconsin. Tonje was an AP second-team All-American last year and shot well on 3s (37.8%) and free throws (85.8%) in 167 college games.

—JAMIR WATKINS: The 6-5, 215-pound guard proved to be a reliable scorer in two seasons with Florida State, averaging 17.0 points in 65 games. He spent two seasons and a redshirt year at VCU.

—BOGOLJUB MARKOVIC: The 6-11, 190-pound big played last year for Mega Basket in his home country of Serbia. He’ll need bulk on a lean frame but he offers intriguing perimeter skills and 3-point range.

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Bexar County Sheriff’s Office seeks public’s help in locating missing 29-year-old

SAN ANTONIO – The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office is seeking the public’s help in locating Royce Jacolvin Brown, 29, who was last seen a week ago.

Brown was reported missing on Wednesday. He was last spotted at his home in the 13800 block of Isaris Lane around 10 p.m. on June 19.

Brown is described as 5 feet 7 inches tall, weighing 230 pounds, with brown eyes and black hair. He was wearing gray shorts and carrying a dark-colored Puma backpack with a red stripe.

Family members have expressed concern as Brown has a medical condition and may not be following his prescribed treatment plan, BCSO said.

According to family, Brown may have left the area on foot through the back door of his home near Potranco and Highway 211.

Anyone with information on Brown’s whereabouts is urged to call the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office at 210-335-6000 or email the BCSO Missing Persons Unit at missingpersons@bexar.org.

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How carbon capture works and the debate about whether it’s a future climate solution

Power plants and industrial facilities that emit carbon dioxide, the primary driver of global warming, are hopeful that Congress will keep tax credits for capturing the gas and storing it deep underground.

The process, called carbon capture and sequestration, is seen by many as an important way to reduce pollution during a transition to renewable energy.

But it faces criticism from some conservatives, who say it is expensive and unnecessary, and from environmentalists, who say it has consistently failed to capture as much pollution as promised and is simply a way for producers of fossil fuels like oil, gas and coal to continue their use.

Here’s a closer look:

How does the process work?

Carbon dioxide is a gas produced by burning of fossil fuels. It traps heat close to the ground when released to the atmosphere, where it persists for hundreds of years and raises global temperatures.

Industries and power plants can install equipment to separate carbon dioxide from other gases before it leaves the smokestack. The carbon then is compressed and shipped — usually through a pipeline — to a location where it’s injected deep underground for long-term storage.

Carbon also can be captured directly from the atmosphere using giant vacuums. Once captured, it is dissolved by chemicals or trapped by solid material.

Lauren Read, a senior vice president at BKV Corp., which built a carbon capture facility in Texas, said the company injects carbon at high pressure, forcing it almost two miles below the surface and into geological formations that can hold it for thousands of years.

The carbon can be stored in deep saline or basalt formations and unmineable coal seams. But about three-fourths of captured carbon dioxide is pumped back into oil fields to build up pressure that helps extract harder-to-reach reserves — meaning it’s not stored permanently, according to the International Energy Agency and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

How much carbon dioxide is captured?

The most commonly used technology allows facilities to capture and store around 60% of their carbon dioxide emissions during the production process. Anything above that rate is much more difficult and expensive, according to the IEA.

Some companies have forecast carbon capture rates of 90% or more, “in practice, that has never happened,” said Alexandra Shaykevich, research manager at the Environmental Integrity Project’s Oil & Gas Watch.

That’s because it’s difficult to capture carbon dioxide from every point where it’s emitted, said Grant Hauber, a strategic adviser on energy and financial markets at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis.

Environmentalists also cite potential problems keeping it in the ground. For example, last year, agribusiness company Archer-Daniels-Midland discovered a leak about a mile underground at its Illinois carbon capture and storage site, prompting the state legislature this year to ban carbon sequestration above or below the Mahomet Aquifer, an important source of drinking water for about a million people.

Carbon capture can be used to help reduce emissions from hard-to-abate industries like cement and steel, but many environmentalists contend it’s less helpful when it extends the use of coal, oil and gas.

A 2021 study also found the carbon capture process emits significant amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that’s shorter-lived than carbon dioxide but traps over 80 times more heat. That happens through leaks when the gas is brought to the surface and transported to plants.

About 45 carbon-capture facilities operated on a commercial scale last year, capturing a combined 50 million metric tons of carbon dioxide — a tiny fraction of the 37.8 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide emissions from the energy sector alone, according to the IEA.

It’s an even smaller share of all greenhouse gas emissions, which amounted to 53 gigatonnes for 2023, according to the latest report from the European Commission’s Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research.

The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis says one of the world’s largest carbon capture utilization and storage projects, ExxonMobil’s Shute Creek facility in Wyoming, captures only about half its carbon dioxide, and most of that is sold to oil and gas companies to pump back into oil fields.

Future of US tax credits is unclear

Even so, carbon capture is an important tool to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, particularly in heavy industries, said Sangeet Nepal, a technology specialist at the Carbon Capture Coalition.

“It’s not a substitution for renewables … it’s just a complementary technology,” Nepal said. “It’s one piece of a puzzle in this broad fight against the climate change.”

Experts say many projects, including proposed ammonia and hydrogen plants on the U.S. Gulf Coast, likely won’t be built without the tax credits, which Carbon Capture Coalition Executive Director Jessie Stolark says already have driven significant investment and are crucial U.S. global competitiveness.

They remain in the Senate Finance Committee’s draft reconciliation bill, after another version passed the House, though the Carbon Capture Coalition said inflation has already slashed their value and could limit projects.

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Associated Press reporter Jack Brook in New Orleans contributed to this report.

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Issey Miyake transforms the Cartier Foundation into living sculpture garden with light and movement

PARIS – As Paris wilted under the ruthless June sun, Issey Miyake sent out a battalion of intergalactic fashion soldiers at the Cartier Foundation Thursday, shimmering between art and menswear apparel in a spectacle where even the light was a player. The late-morning sun bounced sharply off the art museum’s monumental steel pillars, forcing some guests to slide their seats to escape the dazzling reflections — an impromptu game of musical chairs set to a pulsing, kinetic soundtrack.

This Paris Fashion Week season finds the Miyake house in the midst of transition. In January, Paris bid adieu to Homme Plissé — Miyake’s pleated cult favorite that had anchored the city’s menswear calendar since 2019 — as the brand shifted its focus to nomadic shows, most recently appearing under the Tuscan sun. The torch in Paris has now been passed to IM Men, the last line personally conceived by Issey Miyake before his death in 2022. Thursday’s show marked IM Men’s return to the Paris stage, under the direction of designers Sen Kawahara, Yuki Itakura, and Nobutaka Kobayashi.

A kinetic dance of light and fabric

The theme, “Dancing Texture,” nodded to the ceramic artistry of Shoji Kamoda, but also to the surreal choreography on display. Models appeared to roll, tilt, and swing through the light, their movements somewhere between ballet and a slow-motion video game. Occasionally, a guest would squint, unsure if they were watching a runway show or a heat-induced hallucination.

The crowd — equal parts Parisian cool, visiting editors, and those for whom a pleated culotte is a spiritual calling — dodged the sun’s glare and fanned themselves in the heat, shifting for both comfort and the best sightline. The first model glided out in a mad, angular hat, setting the tone for a parade of tin man-meets-space ninja silhouettes designed for dance floors or distant planets.

The clothes themselves looked as if they had been engineered for a new climate — or perhaps a new species. Surfaces peeled, rippled, and shimmered, metallic foils flashed against the sun, and jacquard weaves evoked the carved waves of Kamoda’s ceramics. Vermilion and white motifs burst forth alongside a near-neon green, courtesy of upcycled fishing nets. A coat unzipped into a dramatic collar while some blousons and pants, when laid flat, formed perfect circles — a wink at Kamoda’s wheel-thrown plates.

Miyake’s restless legacy, risk and reinvention

Miyake, who died in 2022, loomed large over the collection, his vision unmistakable in every engineered pleat and playful transformation. IM Men is the last line he conceived — a living laboratory for innovation, risk, and occasional absurdity, now energetically interpreted by a younger team. Even in his absence, his legacy is alive in every joke, fold, and jolt of surprise on the runway.

Born in Hiroshima in 1938, Miyake rose from postwar Japan to become a global force, transforming fashion in the 1980s and ’90s with his radical, sculptural vision. He pioneered heat-set pleating and created lines like Pleats Please and A-POC that blurred the boundaries between art, science, and daily life. Miyake’s designs liberated fabric, allowing it to move with the body and imagination alike.

Of course, the fashion house’s embrace of the avant-garde still courts danger. Thursday’s spectacle occasionally veered into excess, with kinetic art and sci-fi headgear that threatened to upstage the clothes themselves — a familiar Miyake risk. But the best moments, like a pared-back tangerine overcoat that floated past, proved restraint can sometimes steal the show.

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Kennedy’s vaccine committee to vote on flu vaccines and controversial preservative

ATLANTA – U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s new vaccine advisory committee returned to work Thursday, and the panel may vote on proposals about fall flu vaccines and a preservative in some flu shots that antivaccine groups have falsely tied to autism.

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, meeting in Atlanta, also is expected to vote on whether to recommend a second version of a lab-made antibody that protects newborns against a childhood menace called respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV.

The ACIP, created more than 60 years ago, helps the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention determine who should be vaccinated against a long list of diseases, and when. Those recommendations have a big impact on whether insurance covers vaccinations and where they’re available.

Kennedy was a leading voice in the antivaccine movement before becoming the nation’s top health official. He fired the previous 17-member panel this month and replaced it with a seven-member group that includes several vaccine skeptics.

At its June meetings, the committee usually refreshes guidance for Americans 6 months and older to get a flu shot, and helps propel the annual fall vaccination campaign.

Presentations prepared for Thursday’s meeting suggest that the panel may do much the same this year. But there’s also a flu-related vote that promises controversy.

It concerns thimerosal, a form of mercury that’s been added to vaccines since the early 20th century to preventing bacterial contamination in multi-dose vials.

Kennedy has long held there was a tie between thimerosal and autism, and also accused the government of hiding the danger. Study after study has found no evidence that thimerosal causes autism. But since 2001, vaccines manufactured for the U.S. market and routinely recommended for children 6 years or younger have contained no thimerosal or only trace amounts, with limited exceptions.

Thimerosal was placed on the meeting agenda shortly after Kennedy’s new vaccine advisory was named last week.

Before the vote, the committee will hear from Lyn Redwood, the former president of what is now known as Children’s Health Defense — an antivaccine group founded by Kennedy.

Some public health experts contend the thimerosal discussion will unnecessarily raise doubt in vaccines while possibly also making them more expensive and harder to get this fall.

At the panel’s meeting Wednesday, Chrissie Juliano, executive director of the Big Cities Health Coalition, lamented the ouster of the former ACIP panel and the agenda of the new one.

Her organization, which represents large city health departments, “is deeply concerned that many routine vaccines may soon become inaccessible or unaffordable for millions of Americans if ACIP makes changes based on ideology rather than science,” she said. “The stakes are simply too high to let that happen.”

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Neergaard reported from Washington.

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San Antonio expects to switch gears on how it handles floodplain in Southwest Side neighborhood

SAN ANTONIO – The City of San Antonio Public Works Department said its plan to relocate more than 100 people in the Thompson Community is no longer under consideration.

KSAT first spoke to residents who live within the Concepción Creek Drainage Flood Plan in March 2024 and again in a follow-up report last October.

The creek runs along U.S. Highway 90 to the south. Updates from the Federal Emergency Management Agency show the area between General Hudnell Drive to Interstate 35 has a wider flood area than previously believed. The area, which has 2,200 structures in the floodplain, has a 1% or higher risk of flooding each year.

Eddine Medina and Sara Mauricio both live in the area and face the probability that their home would be demolished to build a drainage pond.

Those plans, they were told, are no longer considered as the city switches gears.

“Well, a lot of the neighbors are kind of leery about that,” Mauricio said. “You’ve got to be skeptical.”

District 5 has set up a stakeholders group of residents and businesses that can look at any possible plans engineers may come up with.

Some residents said it’s difficult to hear because they claimed no one who lives in the impacted area was chosen to be a part of the stakeholders group.

“It’s disturbing that, you know, they won’t include us with those stakeholders,” Medina said. “So, how are we to know what’s going on with that behind-the-doors meeting when we’re not involved? We’re directly impacted, and so we should be involved.”

A Public Works Department spokesperson said the city council is expected to approve a federal FEMA grant for $1.38 million in August. That money will be used to hire a design firm to do public outreach, analysis and devise a plan with multiple phases to mitigate drainage relief in the area.

A series of public listening sessions will be scheduled later this year.

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These are the celebs who are attending Jeff Bezos’ Venice wedding

VENICE – Oprah Winfrey arrived in Venice on Thursday, leading a star-studded guest list of celebrities descending on the lagoon city for the weekend wedding of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez.

Winfrey’s private jet landed at Venice’s Marco Polo airport. Former American footballer Tom Brady arrived soon thereafter.

The bride and groom pulled into the Aman Hotel dock on the Grand Canal on Wednesday, traveling via water taxi with security boats in tow. A few hours later they slipped out of the hotel, with Sánchez wearing a sleek black and white striped, one-shoulder gown.

The details of the nuptials have been a tightly kept secret, though the locations now appear to have firmed up as has the guest list.

Ivanka Trump, her husband Jared Kushner and their three children arrived Wednesday.

Other celebrities on the guest list, according to two people close to the wedding who spoke on condition of anonymity, because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly, include:

— Kim Kardashian

— Mick Jagger

— Leonardo DiCaprio

— Orlando Bloom

— Microsoft founder Bill Gates

— Diane von Furstenberg and her husband Barry Diller

— Katy Perry had originally been expected but the latest update had her as not attending.

The wedding has divided Venice, with some activists protesting it as an exploitation of the city by the billionaire Bezos while ordinary residents suffer from overtourism, high housing costs and the constant threat of climate-induced flooding.

One group called Extinction Rebellion staged a small protest in St. Mark’s Square on Thursday featuring a masked bride and groom and people holding posters decrying climate change and income inequalities.

“The planet is burning but don’t worry, here’s the list of the 27 dresses of Lauren Sanchez,” read one, a reference to the bride’s reported wedding weekend wardrobe.

Protesters said that their plans to disrupt the arrivals of guests at one of the wedding venues forced organizers to move the event to the more secure Arsenale area beyond Venice’s congested center.

The city administration has strongly defended the nuptials as keeping with Venice’s tradition as an open city that has welcomed popes, emperors and ordinary visitors alike for centuries.

“We will always respect the right to speak out, but we reject every form of intolerance and prejudice,” Mayor Luigi Brugnaro said in Thursday’s edition of Italian newspaper Il Foglio Quotidiano. “No one in Venice can claim the right of deciding who can enter, who can love, who can celebrate.”

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Majority of US adults support religious chaplains in public schools, a new AP-NORC poll shows

WASHINGTON – Few U.S. adults support allowing religious schools to become tax-funded public charter schools, but a majority favors allowing religious chaplains to provide support services for public school students, a new poll finds.

The survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows the complexity of Americans’ attitudes toward religious expression in schools, which varies depending on the kind of expression and sometimes crosses partisan lines.

The findings also highlight tension points in the country’s long-standing debate over the role of religion in public schools, which continues to drive legislation and legal action. Recent examples include a lawsuit against a new Arkansas measure that requires the display of the Ten Commandments in classrooms, a push by lawmakers in multiple states to allow religious chaplains to serve in student support roles in public schools, and the U.S. Supreme Court’s 4-4 decision that blocked plans for a publicly funded Catholic charter school in Oklahoma.

On some issues like teacher-led prayer, white evangelical Protestants and Black Protestants — who traditionally find themselves on opposite sides of the political aisle — are both largely supportive, dividing them from other religious groups. White evangelical Protestants are more likely than many other religious groups to say religion has “too little” influence on what children are taught in public schools.

Chaplains in schools are popular, but not teacher prayer

About 6 in 10 U.S. adults say that religious chaplains should be allowed to provide support services for students in public schools, but most do not think teacher-led prayer or a mandatory period during school hours for private prayer should be allowed in public schools.

Texas became the first state to allow chaplains, in 2023. After that, lawmakers in several states considered similar bills. It’s illustrative of an ongoing conservative push to bring more religion into the classroom, which advocates of church-state separation are countering.

Sally Hacker, 61, a Republican and nondenominational Christian from Michigan, supports having chaplains in schools. They could help students use the Bible as a moral guide, she said.

“If they have problems, these students could go and talk to these preachers and these chaplains, and maybe they could help them figure out a way to get out of those problems,” Hacker said.

School chaplains are only somewhat divisive among religious Americans, although they’re still opposed by a majority of nones, the term for atheists, agnostics and those with no religion in particular. But white evangelical Protestants and Black Protestants stand apart from Catholics, white mainline Protestants and nones in their support for teacher prayer and mandatory prayer periods in public schools.

For public schoolteacher Cameron Thompson, 47, of Ohio, teacher-led prayer is not OK if it’s part of classroom instruction, but he doesn’t see an issue if teachers choose to lead students in prayer as part of an extracurricular activity, like a Fellowship of Christian Athletes event.

“As an optional activity, I feel like it is something that, yeah, it should be allowed for sure,” said Thompson, a Republican and a Lutheran.

The questions exposed fault lines among partisans on both sides of the political spectrum. Democrats are firmly opposed to teacher-led prayer and mandatory school prayer periods but divided on chaplain support services in public schools, while Republicans are firmly in favor of chaplain support services and teacher-led prayer but divided on a mandatory school prayer period.

Public school psychologist Gary Leu, 64, of Utah, believes adding chaplains is misguided.

Leu, a Democrat, questions the motives behind it, wondering if chaplain programs are more about giving religious watchdogs access to schools or have some other agenda. He also is concerned about what, if any, professional standards and ethics the chaplains would be held to.

“I don’t know what you’re trying to accomplish that isn’t already being accomplished,” said Leu, who is not affiliated with a particular religion but has a background in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Opposition to tax-funded religious charter schools, but more openness to vouchers

Americans are more likely to oppose allowing religious schools to become tax-funded public charter schools than to favor this. About 4 in 10 are opposed, while roughly one-quarter are in favor and about one-third are neither in favor nor opposed.

In general, U.S. adults are more divided on tax-funded vouchers that help parents pay for tuition for their children to attend private or religious schools of their choice instead of public schools. Similar shares oppose and favor this; about one-quarter are neutral.

In May, the Supreme Court’s tie decision effectively ended what would have been the nation’s first religious charter school, but it left the issue unresolved nationally.

There isn’t majority support for allowing religious schools to become tax-funded public charter schools among any of the major religious groups analyzed, although about 4 in 10 white evangelical Protestants are in favor, compared with about 3 in 10 Catholics and Black Protestants and about 2 in 10 white mainline Protestants. Substantial shares of all of these groups neither favor nor oppose this idea. Most nones oppose allowing religious schools to become tax-funded public charter schools.

Jess Tichenor, 39, of Oregon, is among the nones who strongly oppose tax-funded religious charter schools as she is wary of favoritism for Christianity.

“In an ideal situation, the publicly funded schools would be a safe place for any religion to be recognized or even practiced,” said Tichenor, who practices Buddhism. She feels similarly about school vouchers.

Against the backdrop of favorable decisions by the conservative-majority Supreme Court, several states have expanded school voucher programs in recent years.

Supporters say these programs help families make the best choice for their children’s education. At the Republican National Convention, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee called it the “civil rights issue of our time.” Tennessee expanded its school voucher program in February.

Besides discrimination concerns and church-state issues, opponents worry that school vouchers take money from public schools, which serve most U.S. students, and benefit higher-income families that already use private schools.

“If they’re going to end up sending their kids to a special private school, they need to fund that out of their own pocket,” said Hacker, the nondenominational Christian from Michigan.

Other views on religion and public schools

__ About 3 in 10 U.S. adults say religion has “too much” influence on what children are taught in public school. About two-thirds of white evangelical Protestants say religion has “too little” influence.

__ About half of Americans favor requiring public schools to provide parents with lists of books that are available to students, while about one-third neither favor nor oppose this and 14% are opposed.

__ Nearly half, 45%, of U.S. adults oppose religious exemptions for childhood vaccines that are required for students attending public schools, while roughly one-quarter are in favor and about 3 in 10 are neutral.

__ Most adults say freedom of religion and church-state separation are “extremely” or “very” important to the United States’ identity as a nation, but 81% say religious freedom is important, compared with 64% who say this about separation of church and state.

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Meyer reported from Nashville, Tenn.

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The AP-NORC poll of 1,158 adults was conducted June 5-9, using a sample drawn from NORC’s probability-based AmeriSpeak Panel, which is designed to be representative of the U.S. population. The margin of sampling error for adults overall is plus or minus 4 percentage points.

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Things to do in San Antonio this weekend: Summer Night City, Pride ‘Bigger Than’ Texas Fest, Superhero Sundays

FILE – Hundreds of vendors and thousands of people celebrated unity and diversity at the Pride Bigger than Texas festival. (Avery Everett, KSAT 12 News)

Can you believe June is already wrapping up? This month has flown by with many memorable experiences.

Don’t worry, though! The summer vibes are in full swing, and there are still plenty of fun events to attend before the month is over.

San Antonians can attend Texas Public Radio’s last Summer Night City event on Thursday.

This weekend, you can also check out the Pride “Bigger Than” Texas Festival on Saturday at Crockett Park.

Planning to attend to any of these exciting events? Submit your photos and videos to KSAT Connect for a chance to be featured on-air or online.

Let’s dive in and check out what’s happening on the final weekend of June:

Thursday, June 26

  • EXPRESSIONS: A VISIONS BY FLAVIO MULTIMEDIA ART: A multimedia art showcase will highlight the work of Flavio Benavidez and the Pride of San Antonio Showband at 6 p.m. at Woodlawn Pointe. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, click here.
  • SUMMER NIGHT CITY: Texas Public Radio will host a series of Summer Night City events throughout June. The upcoming free event will feature local music, food, vendors and more. Summer Night City will take place from 6-9:30 p.m. at 321 W. Commerce St.

Happening over the weekend:

  • BIG BUGS AT SAN ANTONIO ZOO: The San Antonio Zoo will feature Big Bugs animatronic insects until Sept. 2. The attraction is included with zoo admission and is free for members. Click here to learn more.
  • CITY SWIMMING POOLS: As the heat begins to roll in, the City of San Antonio’s outdoor pools are now open for the regular season. Pool access includes extended evening hours until 8 p.m. at most locations, with some pools offering early morning swim times beginning at 10 a.m. Click here for more information.
  • FIESTA NOCHE DEL RIO: The summer series includes live music and dancing at the Arneson River Theatre. The shows take place every Friday and Saturday at 8:30 p.m. through Aug. 2.

Friday, June 27

  • PRIDE “BIGGER THAN” TEXAS GRAND MARSHAL MEET & GREET: A meet-and-greet will be held for Pride “Bigger Than” Texas Grand Marshal Flavio Benavidez from 6:30-9:30 p.m. at Bonham Exchange.

  • FOURTH FRIDAY: The Rock at La Cantera will host its Fourth Friday event starting at 6:30 p.m. Evening Echoes is expected to perform at the free family-friendly event.
  • FRIDAY NIGHT FLICKS: Bring a blanket and enjoy a free movie screening of “A Secret Life of Pets” at 8:25 p.m. on June 27 at Rodriguez Park, located at 2060 Rodriguez Ave.

Saturday, June 28

  • BILL BELLAMY: The comedian will perform at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. on Saturday at the Woodlawn Theatre, located at 1920 Fredericksburg Road. Tickets are available here.
  • BOHO MARKET AT CASTLE HILLS MARKET: The market will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 2211 NW Military Highway in Castle Hills. Click here for more details.
  • BRICKS IN THE WALL: The tribute band will perform at 8 p.m. at the Aztec Theatre. Tickets are available online.
  • ECOLOGY AND NATURE TOUR: The San Antonio River Foundation will host an ecology and nature tour from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Registration is required. For more information, click here.
  • PRIDE “BIGGER THAN” TEXAS FESTIVAL: The festival will take place from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Crockett Park, located at 1300 N. Main Avenue. The celebration will also be followed by a parade at 9 p.m. and feature music, food and entertainers. For tickets and more information, click here.

Sunday, June 29

  • SOULFUL SUNDAY YOGA: Mobile Om Yoga will host a free yoga session at 10 a.m. at Confluence Park, located at 310 W. Mitchell St.

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Female inmate dies in Bexar County Jail after medical episode, BCSO says

SAN ANTONIO – A 36-year-old female inmate is dead after a medical episode at the Bexar County Jail, according to the sheriff’s office.

A living unit deputy observed the inmate during a face-to-face check at 6:13 p.m. and was alerted by other inmates about the woman’s condition at 6:25 p.m. The deputy then initiated an emergency protocol and performed life-saving measures, BCSO said.

Medical staff members at the jail and San Antonio Fire Department first responders followed to help save the woman, who was later pronounced dead at 6:47 p.m., according to BCSO.

The woman, who was booked Sunday, was experiencing drug withdrawal symptoms during intake and was receiving detox treatment, the sheriff’s office said.

“Preliminarily, it appears the inmate suffered a medical episode compounded by withdrawal symptoms; however, the Bexar County Medical Examiner’s Office will ultimately determine the exact cause and manner of death.” a news release said.

The ME’s office will identify the woman after the family has been notified.

BCSO said Castle Hill police will investigate the jail death, in accordance with the Sandra Bland Act, and the sheriff’s office Internal Affairs Unit will conduct a concurrent administrative review. The Texas Commission on Jail Standards has also been notified about the jail death.

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