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AUSTIN — After the Uvalde school shooting, Gov. Greg Abbott spent nearly three hours in Huntsville at a campaign fundraiser that he was criticized for not canceling. But the governor didn’t touch down and quickly depart, as he implied, after news outlets reported he’d gone ahead with the May 24 fundraiser at a private home in East Texas. Some expected Abbott to instead rush …

Dallas police shot and critically wounded a man in Lake Highlands Wednesday evening, Chief Eddie García said. The shooting happened about 11:30 p.m. in at a gas station in the 13000 block of Jupiter Road, just south of Interstate 635. Earlier in the night, García said police witnessed a drug deal in the gas station’s parking lot. Police tried to …

WASHINGTON — The last Texan released by Russia, Fort Worth native Trevor Reed, expressed optimism that Houston native and WNBA star Brittney Griner will be released along with another jailed American, Paul Whelan. “I’m extremely optimistic about it,” Reed told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Wednesday. “I think that, you know, if the Russians are not stupid, that they’ll take that offer. …

Two months after the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Dallas ISD police, the Dallas Police Department and Dallas Fire-Rescue focused on carrying out a coordinated response to a school shooting. DISD employees and members of all three agencies went through active-shooter training Wednesday at Thomas A. Edison Middle Learning Center in West Dallas. “This is a great …

WASHINGTON — Top executives from the gun manufacturers that produced weapons used in two of Texas’ deadliest mass shootings rejected suggestions on Wednesday that their companies share some responsibility for rampant gun violence. Marty Daniel is the CEO of Daniel Defense, which made the AR-15-style rifle Salvador Ramos used to kill 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School on May …

Taking high doses of “the sunshine vitamin” doesn’t reduce the risk of broken bones in generally healthy older Americans, researchers reported Wednesday. It’s the latest in a string of disappointments about a nutrient once hoped to have wide-ranging protective effects. That same study of nearly 26,000 people already had found that popping lots of vitamin D pills didn’t prevent heart …

A Dallas County jury on Tuesday ordered Charter Communications to pay $7 billion in punitive damages to the family of an 83-year-old woman who was killed by a technician in her Irving home the day after he helped her with her phone service. The payment is in addition to $375 million a jury ordered the company to pay in compensatory damages …

Hard-won progress against HIV has stalled, putting millions of lives at risk, according to an alarming report Wednesday on how the COVID-19 pandemic and other global crises are jeopardizing efforts to end AIDS. Worldwide, the yearslong decline in new HIV infections is leveling off. Worse, cases began climbing in parts of Asia and the Pacific where they previously had been …

AUSTIN — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Wednesday said his office will help local prosecutors enforce the state’s abortion ban. “We stand ready to assist any local prosecutor who pursues criminal charges,” Paxton, a two-term Republican, said in an advisory. Abortion has been effectively outlawed in Texas since July 1, when the state Supreme Court ruled that a nearly century-old ban …

A Heat Advisory has been extended through 9 p.m. with another day of triple digits likely. While most of us will remain dry, a couple of pop-up storms can’t be ruled out north of DFW. A weak frontal boundary will provide parts of the area with a 20% chance of thunderstorms Friday and Saturday, but any storms will be spotty …