LAHORE: An alarming situation looms as the provincial capital has reported 50 cases of Covid’s highly infectious and deadly Indian delta variant. The report has alarmed the health authorities who have found that more than 70 per cent of the infections reported in Lahore are of delta variant. The health experts say the delta variant is more transmissible form of …

MUZAFFARABAD: Mired in one controversy after another amid his electioneering ventures in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), federal Minister for Kash­mir Affairs Ali Amin Gan­dapur received a setback on Friday as the region’s Elec­tion Commission slapped a ban on his participation and speeches in election-related events in AJK. A letter to this effect was sent by the commission’s secretary Sardar …

Garland ISD will offer all students access to free breakfast and lunch every school day during the 2021-22 academic year. Per guidance issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in April 2021, schools are permitted to offer free meals to all students regardless of household income in the 2021-2022 academic year, according to a Garland ISD release. Typically, school districts …

Dallas police on Wednesday released video footage of a robbery that occurred earlier this month at a bank in Uptown. Police are asking the public’s help identifying the robber, who wore a pink cap, a black long-sleeve shirt and dark-colored shoes in the video. Around 6 p.m. July 2, the robber showed a knife to bank tellers at the First …

The Family Place, which serves victims of domestic violence in North Texas, rededicated its safe campus, Sally’s House, after February’s winter storm devastated the property, forcing 123 people residing in the facility to evacuate. The effort to provide housing for the clients following the storm was aided by Wilshire Baptist Church Pastor George Mason and Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson. Johnson …

WASHINGTON — Democrats who fled Austin to halt action in the Texas House on elections legislation are imploring the U.S. Senate to adopt federal protections on voting rights. But they’re getting no sympathy from their home state senators, nor giving any. “Work? You are shirking your responsibility in Austin for a boondoggle in DC,” Cornyn tweeted at state Sen. Royce …

A suspect was injured Wednesday after a Grand Prairie officer fired a gun when, according to police, a driver crashed his car into the officer’s motorcycle. The suspect, 25-year-old Jose Vega of Grand Prairie, was taken to a hospital to be treated for his injuries, which police said were not believed to be life-threatening. No officers were injured during the …

Much of the region will remain dry today, with morning clouds giving way to sunshine. A few storms will be possible mainly across Southeast Texas this afternoon. Otherwise, it will be another humid day with high temperatures in the low 90s and breezy south winds gusting to 25 mph. So far in July, only one day at DFW has had …

WASHINGTON — Just a few feet from Sen. Elizabeth Warren, state Rep. Erin Zwiener’s 3-year-old daughter sat quietly on the marbled floors of the Hart Senate Office Building, alphabet books and sticker sheets strewn around her as the former presidential candidate conferred with runaway Texas Democrats about voting rights. Lark has been tagging along since Monday, when more than 50 …

She pointed to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s recent decision to not grant tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones, who won a Pulitzer Prize for creating the 1619 Project. It appeared “inappropriate, racist and blatantly political,” Mulvey said. University officials eventually granted Hannah-Jones tenure on June 30 after backlash from faculty, students and the public. The dispute over Hannah-Jones’ …