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North Texas can expect a hot and dry weather pattern for the next few days. The weekend will be mostly sunny, dry, and hotter with highs close to triple digits. The heat wave will stretch into next week as well before some relief arrives. A cold front will drop down from Oklahoma late Wednesday. This front will bring a return …

Anxiety over school shootings is prompting district officials to reconsider how they balance security with voter access during election season. Shortly after the Uvalde massacre, a Dallas school trustee walked into his son’s campus for a kindergarten promotion ceremony and noticed many strangers. In addition to being the day Texas witnessed its deadliest school shooting, May 24 — a Tuesday …

WASHINGTON — The biggest investment ever in the U.S. to fight climate change. A hard-fought cap on out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for Medicare recipients. A new corporate minimum tax to ensure big businesses pay their share. And billions left over to pay down federal deficits. All told, the Democrats’ “Inflation Reduction Act” may not do much to immediately tame inflationary price hikes. But the package that won final congressional …

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention said Friday that several of the denomination’s major entities are under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice. The SBC’s statement gave few details about the investigation, but indicated it dealt with sexual abuse. The SBC, the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S., has been plagued by problems related …

The family of a Texas soldier who was was sexually harassed and killed at a military base near Killeen in 2020 filed a lawsuit Friday seeking $35 million in damages from the U.S. government. The family of 20-year-old Vanessa Guillen is seeking damages on the basis of sexual harassment, abuse, assault, rape, sodomy and wrongful death. An investigation by military officials into …

Salman Rushdie, the author whose writing led to death threats from Iran in the 1980s, was attacked Friday morning as he delivered a lecture at Chautauqua Institution in western New York. A man stormed the Amphitheater stage and stabbed 75-year-old Rushdie in the neck as he was being introduced, according to New York State Police. Rushdie fell to the floor, …

WASHINGTON — A new generation of Monuments Men and Women, who restored artifacts stolen by Nazis in World War II, is taking its place in the military as the first class of curators, archaeologists and more was sworn in Friday. Dallas-based author and philanthropist Robert Edsel, who has been a key force in popularizing the World War II Monuments officers through …

Police fatally shot an armed man Friday afternoon along the Richland Hills-North Richland Hills border, authorities say. About 3:10 p.m., two Richland Hills officers responded to the 7000 block of Hardisty Street regarding a man who was reportedly shooting in the street, police spokeswoman Sheena McEachran said. After a brief search, the man was located in the 7000 block of …

Gov. Greg Abbott pushed his school choice agenda after a roundtable on parents’ role in education at a South Dallas private school on Thursday. Abbott has made parental rights a cornerstone of his reelection campaign and has said he supports voucher-like efforts for families to use public funds toward private school. The state should not have the authority to keep children in public school …

The Dallas County Records Building’s historic “White Only” sign will be rededicated next week after six years in storage. County Commissioner John Wiley Price was a leading proponent of preserving the segregation-era sign. “If you don’t know your history, you are doomed to repeat it,” he said in an interview. The “White Only” faded metal plate was rediscovered in 2003, …