WASHINGTON (AP) – Democrats are treading carefully on religious faith as they prepare to question President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett. Several Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee say questions about her Catholic faith would be inappropriate. Instead they are promising to focus on health care and what would happen if the…… MORE
LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) – Delta has been downgraded from a once powerful hurricane to a tropical storm as it moves inland across the U.S. South. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Delta came ashore Friday evening in southwest Louisiana as a Category 2 hurricane but quickly weakened and has become a tropical storm as…… MORE
Austin (AP) – Texas Republican John Cornyn and Democrat MJ Hegar clashed over the response to the cornavirus pandemic and the confirmation of a Supreme Court justice Friday night in the only scheduled debate of their U.S. Senate race. Cornyn, who has been in the Senate since 2002, and is seeking a fourth term, faces…… MORE
Austin (WBAP/KLIF) – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says he’s dropping an investigation sought by a wealthy donor that set off an extraordinary revolt by his own top deputies. Members of Paxton’s staff last week accused him of bribery and abuse of office over his launching of an investigation sought by Austin developer Nate Paul…… MORE
Austin (WBAP/KLIF) – A federal judge has blocked Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s October 1 order that dramatically reduced the number of places where voters could drop off mail ballots during early voting in the November elections. Abbott’s order closed dozens of sites statewide, limiting the number of drop-off locations to one per county, including in…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — As Hurricane Delta made landfall Friday night, several humanitarian groups were preparing to provide relief. John Hall with Texas Baptist Men says their group is already headed to Louisiana to help those suffering. Many of the organization’s volunteers had just returned from assisting with Hurricane Laura before heading back out. Delta is hammering…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — After over 6.7 million COVID-19 tests in Texas, nearly 786,000 have been returned positive. The Lone Star state reported an additional 3,650 positive Coronavirus test results, Friday, with 957 occurring in North Texas. Dallas county listed 415 newly confirmed positives, Tarrant county 314, Collin county 83, and Denton county 145, 117 of which…… MORE
ARLINGTON (WBAP/KLIF)- The City of Arlington has been working for 6 years to transform the section of Abram between Cooper and Collins Streets. Downtown Arlington is the fourth and final section of the voter-approved $50 million Abram Street Rebuild, which started at the Grand Prairie city limits east of SH 360 in July 2014 and…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) – The second presidential debate between President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden is officially off. The nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates confirmed Friday that the Oct. 15 faceoff would be scrapped. The decision was made a day after the commission announced the debate would take place “virtually” because Trump had contracted the…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – President Donald Trump joined the Rush Limbaugh Show Friday on WBAP to discuss his health and key issues facing the U.S. ahead of the November Presidential election. The President, who was diagnosed with COVID-19 last week, continued to tout the drug Regeneron as a “cure” for the coronavirus. The President himself said…… MORE
