Category Archives: National Top Stories

Austin, Texas: Fentanyl Found in Marijuana.

Austin, Texas: Fentanyl Found in Marijuana.

This much fentanyl will kill a human. By Kimberly James; WBAP and KLIF News, Dallas, Texas. EXCLUSIVE TO WBAP/KLIF NEWS, DALLAS. AUSTIN – (WBAP/KLIF) – Austin Police report initial testing of substances seized during initial investigation and arrests in connection with its “overdose week” finds deadly fentanyl in marijuana. Further, more intensive testing is being…MORE

Texas DPS Troopers Move In To Bust Up Anti-War Demonstrators; University of Texas at Dallas.

Texas DPS Troopers Move In To Bust Up Anti-War Demonstrators; University of Texas at Dallas.

DALLAS – (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas state troopers with Department of Public Safety are moving in to the University of Texas at Dallas campus to break up a pro-Palestinian demonstration rallying against the Israel-Hamas war underway in Gaza. No physical altercations are reported at this time despite several arrests. No injuries are reported, though chanting by…MORE

Drug Cartels Testing New, Deadlier Street Drug Additives

Drug Cartels Testing New, Deadlier Street Drug Additives

By Kimberly James; WBAP and KLIF News, Dallas, Texas. Exclusive to WBAP/KLIF News. DALLAS – (WBAP/KLIF) – An explosion of emergency calls for help with overdoses and eight related deaths in just two days in Austin, Texas, may be tied to two new street drug additives experts believe cartels may be “test marketing”. Now understood…MORE

U.S. Feds Target Mexican Cartels Inside Mexico in Operation Plaza Spike

U.S. Feds Target Mexican Cartels Inside Mexico in Operation Plaza Spike

By Kimberly James; WBAP and KLIF News, Dallas, Texas. NOGALES – (WBAP/KLIF) – It’s not an American military invasion of Mexico, but U.S.Customs and Border Protection is taking a new direction against fentanyl smuggled by cartels into the U.S. CBP is now naming and seeking cartel bosses in Mexico it alleges are in charge of…MORE

Illegal Migrant Crossings Down in March, 2024

Illegal Migrant Crossings Down in March, 2024

By Kimberly James; WBAP and KLIF News, Dallas, Texas. WASHINGTON (AP) — Arrests for crossing the U.S. border illegally fell slightly in March, authorities said Friday, bucking a usual spring increase amid increased immigration enforcement in Mexico. The Border Patrol made 137,480 arrests of people entering from Mexico, down 2.3% from 140,638 arrests in February,…MORE

Immigrant Fee Hikes Will Likely Cause More Trouble To A Broken U.S. Immigration System

Immigrant Fee Hikes Will Likely Cause More Trouble To A Broken U.S. Immigration System

By Kimberly James; WBAP and KLIF News, Dallas, Texas. DALLAS – (WBAP/KLIF) – A Metroplex immigration attorney says he’s already seeing a broken U.S. immigration system get worse with significant hikes in fees for renewal of visas and work permits for those migrants already in Texas and around the nation legally; often, already here for…MORE

President Joe Biden in the DFW Metroplex for Fundraisers Wednesday Night

President Joe Biden in the DFW Metroplex for Fundraisers Wednesday Night

DALLAS – (WBAP/KLIF) President Joe Biden arrived at DFW International Airport about 5:30 pm Wednesday, on the way to two fundraisers in the Park Cities area. A sitting president has not arrived at the DFW airport since did President Obama. Biden’s first fundraiser is in Preston Hollow, at the home of Pharos Capital Group’s Kneeland…MORE

U.S. Supreme Court Administrative Stay on Texas SB 4

U.S. Supreme Court Administrative Stay on Texas SB 4

By Kimberly James; WBAP and KLIF News, Dallas, Texas. DALLAS – (WBAP/KLIF) – The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled with an administrative stay for now blocking the state of Texas from enforcing it’s controversial senate bill four in Texas to take effect. It would allow police officers to make arrests of anyone suspected of entering…MORE

Trump Florida Judge Cannon denies Trump dismissal on ‘unconstitutional vagueness’

Trump Florida Judge Cannon denies Trump dismissal on ‘unconstitutional vagueness’

US District Court Judge Aileen Cannon on Thursday dismissed former President Trump’s motion to dismiss charges of retaining classified documents on the grounds of “unconstitutional vagueness.”  This is only one of two motions from Trump’s legal team. The judge has not ruled on the other motion to dismiss based on the Presidential Records Act.  Defense attorney Todd…MORE