DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – President Donald Trump announced via Twitter that acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan is stepping down, after only six months. According to President Trump McAleenan’s decision to resign is to return to the private sector and spend more time with family. Following the announcement, Vice President Mike Pence tweeted “Thank you…… MORE
SAN ANTONIO (AP) – A 21-year-old man prosecutors say was in the United States illegally has been sentenced to life imprisonment for killing a San Antonio college student and burning his body. A state district judge in San Antonio sentenced Ernesto Esquivel Garcia on Friday for the June 2018 death of 20-year-old Northwest Vista College…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – A petition to rename a Dallas street after Botham Jean has garnered tens of thousands of signatures. Jean was murdered by former Dallas Police Officer Amber Guyger at the Southside Flats Apartments on Lamar Street last year after she said she mistook his apartment for her own. Guyger was sentenced to 10…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – The United States is suspending a tariff hike on $250 billion in Chinese imports that was set to take effect Tuesday, and China agreed to buy $40 billion to $50 billion in U.S. farm products as the world’s two biggest economies reached a cease-fire in their 15-month trade war. The two countries…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Pentagon says the U.S. will send several dozen fighter jets along with other aircraft and additional air defenses to Saudi Arabia to help protect the kingdom from Iranian attacks. The announcement on Friday came hours after Iran said two missiles hit one of its oil tankers traveling through the Red Sea…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – Football fans in North Texas this weekend have options when it comes to getting to the Cotton Bowl for the Texas/OU game. Authorities are encouraging all fans and fair goers to use DART. The price is $6 for an all day pass. The train drops riders off at the fair gates. Riders…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Trump has lost his appeal to stop the House of Representatives from subpoenaing his financial records. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Friday that lawmakers should get the documents they have subpoenaed from the president’s accounting firm Mazars USA. The ruling could hit another hurdle…… MORE
Dallas-Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – A Texas Tribune report names former congressman Pete Sessions as ‘congressman 1’ in an indictment of two Rudy Giuliani associates. Federal prosecutors on Thursday named Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman as two Florida businessmen who promised GOP political donations in an alleged conspiracy to force the removal of the U.S. Ambassador…… MORE
Dallas – Fort Worth (WBAP/KLIF) – Golf-ball-sized hail was reported in White Settlement and portions of the Fort Worth area along with gusty winds as storms moved across North Texas last night. Reports of golf-ball-sized hail in Fort Worth and White Settlement. Pics: Mallory Rae Jones (Left/Fort Worth) and Jeremy Jones Right/White Settlement) https://t.co/U8nBfaue1V pic.twitter.com/pE9lMhVWhz…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) — Businessmen with ties to Rudy Giuliani lobbied a U.S. congressman in 2018 for help ousting the American ambassador to Ukraine around the same time they committed to raising money for the lawmaker. An indictment unsealed Thursday identified the lawmaker only as “Congressman 1.” But the donations described in the indictment match campaign…… MORE
