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WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announced his support Tuesday for his chamber’s emerging bipartisan gun agreement, boosting momentum for modest but notable election-year action by Congress on an issue that’s deadlocked lawmakers for three decades. The Kentucky Republican said he hoped an outline of the accord, released Sunday by 10 Democrats and 10 Republicans, would be translated into legislation and enacted. …

Walk into any health care system board room in North Texas, and the major topic of conversation is likely the same: How do hospitals break the ongoing cycle of staffing shortages before the next COVID crisis? The pandemic exacerbated staffing woes for Dallas-Fort Worth hospitals, but it certainly didn’t create them. And now, during a relative lull in COVID hospitalizations, …

VAN HORN — Culberson County Sheriff Oscar Carrillo is haunted by the sight last year of a father clinging to life next to his son who succumbed to the brutal heat in an unforgiving desert. The father shared an all-too-familiar story with Carrillo — of migrants risking it all to reach the United States, battling triple-digit heat waves only to …

As his full, unconditional release goes into effect as early as Wednesday, John Hinckley Jr., the former Highland Park resident who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981, wants to launch a music career and already has sold out his first upcoming live show in Brooklyn. In the assassination attempt outside the Washington Hilton, Hinckley also wounded press secretary James Brady, …

COLUMBIA, S.C. — For tens of millions of Americans who see abortion as wrong, it’s gone this way for a half-century: One woman swayed to reconsider as dozens of others follow through. One clinic’s doors closed only to see desperate patients go elsewhere. One law passed, another overturned. A movement built of tiny steps and endless setbacks, though, now seems …

Hot and windy weather is in store for North Texas today. Afternoon highs in the upper 90s will accompany a strong, gusty south wind over 30 mph. The sky will be mostly cloudy to partly sunny. The humidity will make it feel like 100-102. Some Saharan dust in the upper levels of the atmosphere will make the sky a bit …

Most Dallas residents say they feel safe although nearly 4 in 10 of them say they’ve experienced an uptick in shootings and homicides in their neighborhoods, a new poll found. Respondents to the 500-person survey by Suffolk University/The Dallas Morning News said they think Dallas is a safe city to live, expressed tempered satisfaction with policing and opposed cutting funding to …

Former Highland Park resident John Hinckley Jr. was 25 when he purchased two revolvers for $47 each from Rocky’s Pawn Shop in Dallas on Oct. 13, 1980, with no waiting period or verified background check. Months later he used one of the revolvers in the attempted assassination of former President Ronald Reagan that also wounded three others outside the Washington Hilton in …

A Dallas City Council meeting on whether to keep or fire City Manager T.C. Broadnax has been delayed a week after some council withdrew their support for an expedited review of Dallas’ top administrative official’s job performance. The council deliberation is now set to occur June 23, which was the original planned date for the council to carry out an annual performance …

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan Senate working group had barely announced its framework agreement for addressing gun violence when hardline Second Amendment defenders slammed the proposal. “Here we go again, Republican legislators compromising your rights and getting nothing in return,” tweeted Gun Owners of America, which bills itself as the “only no compromise gun lobby” in Washington. Former Trump campaign operative Steve Cortes denounced the …