Category Archives: 24/7 Newsroom News
Bill further limiting abortion providers clears Texas Senate
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Cities and counties in Texas couldn’t partner with abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood under a bill approved by the Republican-controlled state Senate. The m...
Jul 26, 2017
First 2017 Texas case of local Zika transmission reported
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – Texas health officials have reported what they believe to be the state’s first case this year of local Zika virus transmission. A statement Wednesday by the Texas Depa...
Jul 26, 2017
Texas Senate Approves Tougher Mail-In Voter Fraud Penalties
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – The Texas Senate has preliminarily approved a bill increasing criminal penalties for stealing someone else’s mail-in ballot. It’s part of an attempt to curb abse...
Jul 26, 2017
US Senate Rejects Full Obamacare Repeal Without Replacement
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Republican-run Senate has rejected a GOP proposal to scuttle President Barack Obama’s health care law and give Congress two years to devise a replacement. Seven Repub...
Jul 26, 2017
Former Dallas Cowboy Lucky Whitehead Speaks Out About Release
DALLAS, (WBAP/KLIF) – Former Dallas Cowboy Lucky Whitehead speaks out three days after being released from the team. In an interview with ABC news Whitehead talked about his frustrations about h...
Jul 26, 2017
New Study Found CTE in 99 Percent of Donated NFL Players’ Brains
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – A new study out of Boston University found that 99 percent of former NFL players who donated their brain for research were diagnosed with the degenerative brain disease...
Jul 26, 2017
American Airlines Maintenance Workers Protest at DFW
DFW Airport (WBAP/KLIF News) – Hundreds of maintenance workers for American Airlines picketed outside Terminal D at DFW Airport Wednesday, calling for an end to outsourcing. “We have every...
Jul 26, 2017
President Trump to Bar Transgender from Military, LGBT Community Reacts
President Donald J. Trump is the 45th President of the United States. (WBAP/KLIF) – President Trump announced Wednesday, through a series of tweets, that transgender people will be barred from s...
Jul 26, 2017
Energy Sec. and Former TX Gov. Rick Perry Duped By Russian Pranksters
WASHINGTON (AP) - Energy Secretary Rick Perry has been fooled by a pair of Russian pranksters impersonating the prime minister of Ukraine. Perry spoke to the pair about the Paris Climate Accord and th...
Jul 26, 2017
Tax Foundation says sales tax holidays hurt state revenue
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) — Another state sales tax holiday is coming next month but a newly released report from the Tax Foundation argues these sales incentives actually fail to boost sales whil...
Jul 26, 2017
