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Trump Extends TikTok Ban Deadline For A Third Time, Without Clear Legal Basis

Trump Extends TikTok Ban Deadline For A Third Time, Without Clear Legal Basis

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order to keep TikTok running in the U.S. for another 90 days to give his administration more time to broker a deal to bring the social media platform under American ownership. It is the third time Trump has extended the deadline. The first one…MORE

Supreme Court work goes on with 10 cases to decide, including birthright citizenship

Supreme Court work goes on with 10 cases to decide, including birthright citizenship

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is in the homestretch of a term that has lately been dominated by the Trump administration’s emergency appeals of lower court orders seeking to slow President Donald Trump’s efforts to remake the federal government. But the justices also have 10 cases to resolve that were argued between December and…MORE

Operation Showdown Results In Drug And Gun Seizures In Fort Worth

Operation Showdown Results In Drug And Gun Seizures In Fort Worth

(WBAP/KLIF) – Fort Worth – Following a two-month targeted initiative called “Operation Showdown” to reduce violent crime in Fort Worth, Texas, 76 individuals have been arrested for federal and state firearms and drug offenses. The announcement was made by Nancy E. Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, and Bennie Mims,…MORE

Karen Read Not Guilty of 2nd Degree Murder & Manslaughter

Karen Read Not Guilty of 2nd Degree Murder & Manslaughter

(WBAP/KLIF) — DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) — A jury found Karen Read not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges Wednesday in the 2022 death of her Boston police officer boyfriend, a case that attracted legions of true crime followers who erupted in cheers when word of the acquittal spread outside court. The same jury also…MORE

Sean “Diddy” Combs Not Expected to Testify; Jury Could Get Case Next Week

Sean “Diddy” Combs Not Expected to Testify; Jury Could Get Case Next Week

(WBAP/KLIF) — NEW YORK (AP) — The possibility that music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs might testify at his federal sex trafficking trial all but vanished Tuesday after his lawyer predicted a defense presentation lasting as little as two days and the judge said jurors could be deliberating next week. Attorney Marc Agnifilo told Judge Arun…MORE

Federal Reserve leaves its key rate unchanged but sees two cuts this year

Federal Reserve leaves its key rate unchanged but sees two cuts this year

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve officials expect inflation to worsen in the coming months but they still foresee two interest rate cuts by the end of this year, the same as they projected in March. The Fed kept its key rate unchanged for the fourth straight meeting Wednesday, and said the economy is expanding at…MORE

Southlake’s Gateway Mega-Church Announces Layoffs

Southlake’s Gateway Mega-Church Announces Layoffs

SOUTHLAKE – (WBAP/KLIF) – Southlake’s Gateway Church announces layoffs that will run through the month of July, because of a significant drop in regular donations from members. The church, not detailing how wide those layoffs will be, but packages including offers of voluntary resignations will reportedly run up to four months’ salary. Last fall, former…MORE

What to know about the impacts of the Supreme Court’s ruling on transgender care for youth

What to know about the impacts of the Supreme Court’s ruling on transgender care for youth

ASSOCIATED PRESS – (WBAP/KLIF) – The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming surgery for transgender youth in a ruling that’s likely to reverberate across the country. Most Republican-controlled states already have similar bans. In his majority opinion Wednesday, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that Tennessee’s ban does not violate the Constitution’s equal…MORE