(CNN) — North Korea has taken a major step forward in realizing its goal of becoming a nuclear power, according to a Washington Post report on a confidential US intelligence assessment that concludes Pyongyang has developed a nuclear warhead capable of fitting inside its missiles. The Washington Post first reported details of the assessment on Tuesday just…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Some Texas football teams are starting up practices today and one local brain expert said kids and parents need to be careful. Doctor Brandon Brock of The Cerebrum Health Center said not every football player will get the brain disease chronic traumatic encepholapathy, commonly known as CTE, but they do need to…… MORE
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News) – Dallas Area Rapid Transit Police have arrested a third person in connection with the brutal beating of a passenger that occurred on a DART train on Sunday, July 30th. The girl, a juvenile, was seen wearing red in a video of the fight posted to social media. DART officials said the she was…… MORE
(CNN) — North Korean state media has slammed the latest round of sanctions approved by the United Nations, calling them a “flagrant violation of our sovereignty.” It vowed retaliation against Washington. The UN Security Council unanimously adopted new sanctions Saturday in response to Pyongyang’s long-range ballistic missile tests on July 4 and July 28. The measures aim…… MORE
DALLAS (AP) – Two former North Texas deputies face up to 10-year prison terms after pleading guilty to stealing confiscated guns and pawning the weapons or selling them online. Federal prosecutors in Dallas on Monday said about 40 guns stolen from an Ellis County Sheriff’s Office evidence room were meant to be destroyed. Former Lt.…… MORE
(CNN) — Attorney General Jeff Sessions Friday detailed his plans to combat leaks of classified information, which have sparked the anger of President Donald Trump. Sessions, in a brief speech at the Justice Department, said that he spoke to career employees and, “at their suggestion, one of the things we are doing is reviewing policies…… MORE
HOUSTON (AP) – Texas corrections officials are under a federal judge’s order to submit a plan by the end of the day to relieve hundreds of “heat-sensitive” inmates from the sweltering conditions inside a Southeast Texas prison. U.S. District Judge Keith Ellison has ordered the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to lower the housing area…… MORE
(CNN) — Justice Department Special Counsel Robert Mueller has launched a grand jury in his investigation of Russian influence in the 2016 election, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. Citing unnamed people familiar with the matter, the Journal said Mueller had impaneled the grand jury in Washington, where his team of investigators continue to look into whether…… MORE
AUSTIN (WBAP/KLIF News) – Supporters of the so-called bathroom bill called on the Texas House to take up the measure passed by the Senate. Several dozen people gathered outside the state capitol on Thursday to urge lawmakers to consider the bill, which would only allow people to use the bathroom of the gender listed on their…… MORE
(CNN) — The United States and Russia are plunging deeper into their worst crisis since the Cold War, with politics in both nations outpacing the capacity of either government to mitigate the danger. President Donald Trump’s grudging signature on new sanctions punishing Russia for alleged meddling in last year’s US election sparked an explosive rhetorical…… MORE
