(WBAP/KLIF) — VIENNA (AP) — Iran said it has built and will activate a third nuclear enrichment facility, ratcheting up tensions with the U.N. on Thursday immediately after its atomic watchdog agency censured Iran for failing to comply with nonproliferation obligations meant to prevent it from developing a nuclear weapon. “The Islamic Republic of Iran…… MORE
AUSTIN – (WBAP/KLIF) – The Dallas Morning News reports Governor Greg Abbott is deploying more than five thousand Texas National Guard troops and two thousand state troopers with special agents working alongside the Texas Rangers for scores of protests statewide against President Trump’s immigration raids. The events Saturday in Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington, Frisco, McKinney,…… MORE
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dozens of mayors from across the Los Angeles region banded together to demand that the Trump administration stop the stepped-up immigration raids that have spread fear across their cities and sparked protests across the U.S. They also called on President Donald Trump to pull back from using troops alongside immigration agents…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is drawing down the presence of staffers who are not deemed essential to operations in the Middle East and their loved ones due to the potential for regional unrest. The State Department said Wednesday that it’s ordered the departure of all nonessential personnel from the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that China will make it easier for American industry to obtain much-needed needed magnets and rare earth minerals, clearing the way for talks to continue between the world’s two biggest economies. In return, Trump said, the U.S. will stop efforts to revoke the visas of Chinese nationals…… MORE
NEW YORK (AP) — Former movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has been convicted of one of the top charges in his sex crimes retrial. But the former movie mogul was also acquitted Wednesday of another charge, and jurors were as yet unable to reach a verdict on a third charge. The split verdict meted out a…… MORE
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Gaza Health Ministry says the Palestinian death toll from the Israel-Hamas war has passed 55,000. The ministry doesn’t distinguish between civilians and combatants but has said that women and children make up more than half the dead. Local hospitals said Wednesday that 21 people in Gaza were killed…… MORE
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces have launched a large-scale drone assault across Ukraine, where officials said three people were killed and 64 others wounded. The overnight strikes caused widespread destruction in the northeastern city of Kharkiv, where apartment buildings, private homes, playgrounds, industrial sites and public transportation were hit. Moscow’ has deployed high numbers…… MORE
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Google has offered buyouts to another swath of its workforce across several key divisions in a fresh round of cost cutting coming ahead of a court decision that could order a breakup of its internet empire. The company confirmed the streamlining that was reported by several news outlets. It’s not…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is expected to sign a measure Thursday that blocks California’s first-in-the-nation rule banning the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035. Trump also plans to sign measures blocking California rules to curb tailpipe emissions in certain vehicles and smog-forming nitrogen oxide pollution from trucks. That’s according to a White…… MORE
