Finance Minister Miftah Ismail on Friday announced new fixed taxes on retailers to reduce the budget deficit and elaborated on the “super tax” on 13 large industries announced by the prime minister that rattled the stock market. Addressing a National Assembly (NA) session convened to wind up the budget debate, Ismail said the country was no longer on the way to default …

PTI general-secretary Asad Umar on Friday excoriated the coalition government for imposing a “super tax” on large-scale industries, saying that the measure would “rattle the economy”, increase unemployment and inflation, shoot up imports and push Pakistan further into economic crisis. “This is a huge blow to the growing industries,” he said at a press conference in Islamabad. In an address …

Forney ISD has banned all hooded clothing across its 18 schools along with dresses and skirts among its older students. The district, located about 25 miles east of Dallas, will also prohibit t-shirts and denim pants, among other specifications for next school year. Skirts can only be worn by students in prekindergarten through fourth grade. The dress code updates are part of …

A Rowlett man accused of shooting and stabbing his girlfriend during a custody battle pleaded guilty Wednesday to multiple federal charges, the U.S. attorney’s office for the Northern District of Texas said. Andrew Charles Beard, 35, pleaded guilty to charges of cyberstalking using a dangerous weapon resulting in death and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence. Beard’s girlfriend, …

AUSTIN — A joint committee in the Texas House heard hours of testimony from law enforcement officials Thursday with expert insight into mistakes made in responding to the Uvalde school shooting, with one lawman saying “police officers should have taken bullets and not the children.” The police response to the shooting has remained under fire with several law enforcement leaders …

A sheriff’s deputy was injured Thursday and a person is dead after a standoff in unincorporated Tarrant County. Around 9:30 a.m., Tarrant County deputies went to a home in the 500 block of Indian Creek Drive to serve a felony warrant for a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. When they arrived, someone began firing at deputies from …

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health regulators on Thursday ordered Juul to pull its electronic cigarettes from the market, the latest blow to the embattled company widely blamed for sparking a national surge in teen vaping. The action is part of a sweeping effort by the Food and Drug Administration to bring scientific scrutiny to the multibillion-dollar vaping industry after years …

Signs of brewing trouble stain the academic history of the young man who would go on to kill 19 children and two teachers in Texas’ deadliest school shooting. State education officials are conducting a reverse “behavioral threat assessment” for the 18-year-old who carried out the Uvalde massacre, Commissioner Mike Morath told lawmakers this week. They want to identify what school …

A Dallas County jury found Charter Communications acted negligently when it hired a field technician who went on to fatally stab one of his customers, and the jury ordered the company to pay millions of dollars in damages to the woman’s family. The jury handed down the verdict Thursday and ordered Charter, which also operates as Spectrum, to pay 90% …

A Heat Advisory is in effect for all of North Texas. The advisory will remain in effect until 7 p.m. Saturday for highs of 102 to 104 and a heat index as high as 105 to 109. Also, the area is under another Air Quality Alert for your Friday. The hot weather will last all through the weekend before a …