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A Dallas police officer fatally shot 30-year-old Kyle Dail about three seconds after the man raised a handgun and tossed it away from officers during a struggle inside a Lake Highlands gas station, police said Friday. Dail died Thursday at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, the Dallas County Medical Examiner’s Office said Friday. His autopsy report, which will reveal the cause …

AUSTIN — The Texas secretary of state’s office selected the state’s most populated county and three others Thursday for an audit of election returns that will include the 2022 midterms. Cameron, Guadalupe, Eastland and Harris counties were picked at random under a provision of the 2021 omnibus election law that created the audit process. Cameron and Harris were chosen from a pool of Texas’ 18 …

WASHINGTON — Nine Texans were among the members of Congress who took the field at Nationals Park for the annual Congressional Baseball Game on Thursday night, continuing a century-long tradition that returns to a typical schedule after cancellation in 2020 and a two-month delay in 2021 due to COVID-19. But just because it was a bipartisan affair doesn’t mean it …

A summertime cold front will slip into North Texas, today. The front will bring a slight chance of pop-up thunderstorms this afternoon and tomorrow. The most widespread storms will be close to the Red River and areas north into Oklahoma. For DFW, rain chances will be 20 percent both today and Saturday. Any storm will be capable of producing lightning, …

Band kids line up along the yard lines painted white against the pavement. They hold their hands to the sky, replicating how they’ll look when they hold their instruments. Hats shade their faces and half-gallon water jugs sit next to their feet. “Drink, drink, drink,” their director shouts from the sidelines. The Coppell High School marching band had its first …

WASHINGTON — The District of Columbia has requested National Guard assistance to help stem a “growing humanitarian crisis” prompted by thousands of migrants that have been sent to Washington by Texas and Arizona. Mayor Muriel Bowser formally asked the White House last week for an open-ended deployment of 150 National Guard members per day as well as “suitable federal location” for …

A tour bus rolled up to a beige, modest stucco hotel along North Central Expressway. The building was unremarkable. “Think about how many times you drive by that place on a daily basis,” said Matt Osborne, of New Friends New Life. On a Tuesday morning more than five years ago, he said motioning to the building, law enforcement busted a sex …

A summertime cold front will slip into North Texas on Friday. The front will bring a slight chance of pop up thunderstorms Friday afternoon and again Saturday. The most widespread storms will be close to the Red River and areas north into Oklahoma. For DFW, rain chances will be 20 percent both Friday and Saturday. Any storm will be capable …

Sunlight magnified by glass bottles in an open garbage can ignited paper trash, starting a 500-acre North Texas wildfire that destroyed five homes, fire officials said Thursday. The July 18 fire on Possum Kingdom Lake’s western shore, about 70 miles west of Fort Worth, took eight days to fully contain. Chief Bonnie Watkins of the Possum Kingdom West Side Volunteer Fire Department …

WASHINGTON — A package of scientific research funding and incentives for domestic semiconductor chip manufacturing is headed to President Joe Biden’s desk after the House approved it 243-187 on Thursday. The legislation includes tens of billions in direct subsidies and tax breaks to entice chip companies into choosing U.S. sites for their new and expanded facilities rather than locations overseas. The measure could prove …