The Texas Supreme Court has declined to block restraining orders against Gov. Greg Abbott’s mask mandate ban. The justices remanded Attorney General Ken Paxton’s appeal to the 3rd Texas Court of Appeal in Austin for a hearing. The court did not issue an opinion for its Thursday decision. The move comes the same day as…… MORE
AUSTIN (AP)- Some Democrats who left Texas to block a GOP voting bill have ended a 38-day holdout. Enough Democrats returned to the state Capitol to allow the Texas House to resume work for the first time since mid-July. That’s when more than 50 Democrats flew to Washington, D.C., in what amounted to a second…… MORE
Some students in DISD will now have an in-home learning option. The district hopes this new option will appeal to folks who are nervous about sending their kids back to school for fear of catching the virus. It’s also for those kids who may be too young to get the vaccine and those who are…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF)- As the U.S. has emerged from the pandemic lockdown and moved toward navigating around the virus, there has been a lot of discussion about lasting impacts — especially in relation to how local funders and nonprofits continue to work together to support our communities most in need. The Dallas Foundation, Communities Foundation of…… MORE
Associated Press DOVER, Del. (AP) – A bankruptcy judge has approved a proposal by the Boy Scouts of America to set up an $850 million fund to compensate tens of thousands of men who say they were sexually abused as youngsters by scout leaders. But the judge on Thursday also rejected two key provisions of…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – The Dallas City Manager is promising more transparency following the deletion of police evidence files. According to city leadership, more than 22 terabytes of Police evidence files were unintentionally deleted by a city employee. Eight of those files are still missing. The files went missing in April, but the City Council and Mayor…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. officials are struggling to speed the pace of evacuations of Americans and Afghans at Kabul airport. But they are constrained by a combination of obstacles including Taliban checkpoints and paperwork problems. With an August 31 deadline looming, tens of thousands remain to be airlifted to safety. As of Thursday, about 7,000…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – A North Texas woman pleaded guilty on Thursday to her role in the January 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol building. DFW Realtor Jenna Ryan was seen on video entering the Capitol building the day of the breach. Those videos were shared on social media. Ryan entered the guilty plea on a misdemeanor…… MORE
Updated at 1:45pm: WASHINGTON (AP) – The man who claimed to have bomb in a pickup truck near the U.S. Capitol has surrendered to law enforcement, ending an hourslong standoff. The man, identified by law enforcement officials as 49-year-old Floyd Ray Roseberry of North Carolina, crawled out of the vehicle and was being taken into…… MORE
AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) – The number of people seeking unemployment benefits fell last week for a fourth straight time to a pandemic low, the latest sign that America’s job market is rebounding from the pandemic recession as employers boost hiring to meet a surge in consumer demand. The Labor Department reported that jobless…… MORE
