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San Antonio City Council unanimously confirmed the selection of 27-year SAPD veteran Jesse Salame as the department's next police chief. The selection lays the foundation for the next era of the San Antonio Police Department, which for more than 20 years had been led by William McManus before his retirement this summer.

In “American Pope: Leo XIV’s Road from the South Side of Chicago to Vatican City,” NPR journalists, Daniel Burke and Scott Detrow present the first comprehensive, impressively sourced biography of the new pontiff. The two journalists spent the year after Leo’s election reporting in Peru, Chicago, and Rome. As a result, readers are introduced to a man at varying stages of his life and now leader of the Catholic Church.

Democrat Nathan Johnson of Dallas faces Republican Mayes Middleton of Galveston and Libertarian Tom Oxford in the election for Texas Attorney General. Johnson joins "The Source" to take listener questions. Middleton declined TPR's invitation to come on the air.

Southern Bexar County is home to one of the most competitive Texas House races, with Democrat Kristian Carranza and Republican Jorge Borrego vying for House District 118.

Bexar County voters will choose a new district attorney Nov. 3, with prosecution priorities, staffing and alternatives to incarceration shaping the race to succeed retiring Democrat Joe Gonzales. Democrat Luz Elena Chapa faces Republican Ashley Foster and independent Jason Wolff,