Dallas will soon have another top city official with the name of Eric Johnson. City Manager T.C. Broadnax on Thursday told council members that Eric Anthony Johnson, community development director in Bloomington, Minn., will help direct the city’s housing strategies as the new chief of Economic Development and Neighborhood Services. He will start March 9. His last day of work …

LAS VEGAS—A day before Nevada Democrats make their presidential preferences, President Donald Trump boldly predicted his reelection and the sound defeat of what he described as the Democratic Party’s socialist agenda. “Keep America great,” he said on Friday as the crowd roared. “We are making it greater than ever before. … We are returning power to you, the American people.” …

In the three-way Democratic race to challenge Republican Morgan Meyer, investment banker Shawn Terry has out-raised his opponents since he announced his candidacy last July. Since then, he has grown that advantage, out-raising Joanna Cattanach in the money race by more than 2-1 and Tom Ervin by more than 5-1. That has allowed Terry to sell himself as the more viable candidate who can …

Among the most obscure but powerful elected officials in Texas is the county commissioner. Every county — regardless of population or square miles — elects four commissioners and a county judge, who presides over the commissioners court. The role entails setting the tax rate and budget for all county functions, such as the jail, courts and health department. In Dallas, …

Smartphone addiction does to your brain what drug addiction or substance abuse does, German researchers revealed in their recent study. In this age, it’s almost impossible to fathom a day without smartphones. Whether you need it to function as an alarm clock, a calendar, a messaging service or to get your daily news, smartphones have replaced many things in our …

It has been four years since the draconian Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (Peca) was passed, but confusion still reigns in the country over how to deal with harmful content on social media. On Feb 15, the Asia Internet Coalition (AIC) — a group of internet companies, including giants such as Facebook, Twitter and Google — wrote a letter to …

LONDON: More cases of the new coronavirus outside China along with warnings by big companies that their earnings could be hurt caused most stock markets to pull back on Friday. European markets struggled despite upbeat manufacturing survey data, after virus-linked losses in most of Asia and the United States. As trading began in New York, the Dow Jones index had …

  ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) disbursed record $2.4 billion in development assistance to Pakistan in 2019 including $1.8bn in programme lending and $634.3 million in project lending. According to its year-in-review document released on Friday, the ADB disbursed $1.8bn in policy-based loans including $1bn in immediate budget support to shore up the country’s public finances and $500m to …

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar on Friday said the pace of implementation on projects under China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) would be accelerated in the coming days. He made these remarks while meeting the Ambassador of Peoples Republic of China Yao Jing on Friday. The two sides discussed matters relating to the CPEC, business-to-business collaboration …

LAYYAH / MUZAFFARGARH: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday launched the ‘Ehsaas Aamdan’ programme by distributing assets such as agricultural equipment, retail shop inputs and livestock worth Rs60,000 among 10 beneficiaries selected on the basis of poverty cards here at the sports complex. While addressing a simple ceremony, the prime minister announced that Pakistan was on the brink of default …