The Trump administration has extended its ban on European travelers to visitors from the United Kingdom and Ireland, Vice President Mike Pence confirmed during a Saturday afternoon press conference, due to the continuing coronavirus outbreak. The ban is scheduled to go into effect Monday after 11:59 p.m. Eastern time. Like the ban on travelers who have been in the European Union's Schengen Area within the prior two weeks, the new ban excludes U.S. citizens and their families, Pence said....

Jitters are growing among structured product issuers as the stock indexes underlying popular autocallable bonds plunge through a shadowy inflection point known as peak vega, where hedging costs surge and losses can mount. This fabled territory, where issuers of the products see their volatility sensitivity flip from long to short, has already been surpassed on the Eurostoxx 50 and Japan’s Nikkei 225. In previous stress periods, this has forced dealers to buy volatility in unison, inflating the

SAN MARCOS, Texas (KXAN) — The committee tasked with lowering the number of animals euthanized at the San Marcos Regional Animal Shelter is close to finishing a draft plan outlining how to earn the shelter “no kill” status within five years. The San Marcos City Council tasked the committee in December with raising the “live outcome” rate to 90 percent, the benchmark for the “no kill” designation. The committee is hosting a public input session 6 p.m. Wednesday at Kyle City Hall to present...

TRAVIS COUNTY, Texas (KXAN) — Some students at Lake Travis ISD will be changing school this fall, whether their families moved or not. The school district is redrawing attendance zones for both middle and elementary schools because so many people are moving into the area, and now the committee in charge of planning wants to hear from parents about two proposals to move attendance lines. This is the second time LTISD is redrawing zones in recent years. District leaders say they’re seeing very...

MARBLE FALLS, Texas (KXAN) — Ringing cowbells and cheering, a group of education advocates surprised 17 educators Wednesday with giant checks funding grant requests they submitted for specific needs. The Marble Falls Education Foundation “prize posse,” as executive director Pam Parkman described it, loaded up a school bus to drive to seven campuses, walking into classrooms and ambushing teachers in hallways. “They don’t know we’re coming,” Parkman explained on the bus ride to the first...