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Two people on a motorcycle were killed in a crash in Fort Worth Sunday afternoon, according to police. The crash happened about 6:15 p.m. at the intersection of East Lancaster Avenue and Major Street. A car and a motorcycle collided, ejecting the motorcycle driver and a passenger. Both were hit by another car and killed, authorities said. The driver of …

WASHINGTON — Members of the House committee investigating the Capitol riot said Sunday they have uncovered enough evidence for the Justice Department to consider an unprecedented criminal indictment against former President Donald Trump for seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The committee announced that Trump’s campaign manager, Bill Stepien, is among the witnesses scheduled to testify at a hearing Monday that focuses …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials said Sunday that kid-sized doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccines appear to be safe and effective for kids under 5, a key step toward a long-awaited decision to begin vaccinating the youngest American children. The Food and Drug Administration posted its analysis of the Pfizer shot ahead of a Wednesday meeting where outside experts will vote …

Seven Texans were among the members of the white supremacist Patriot Front group arrested while trying to disrupt a pride event in Idaho, according to police and jail records. Authorities in Idaho arrested 31 members of the group Saturday as they were packed into the back of a U-Haul near the event in Coeur d’Alene. Police Chief Lee White said …

Members of the Southern Baptist Convention, the country’s largest Protestant denomination, will have an important decision to make at their annual meeting this week: who to elect as their next president. The election comes in the wake of a shocking report detailing how convention leaders mishandled allegations of sexual abuse against clergy members for nearly 20 years. Among the candidates is Bart …

The gap between the wealth of Black and White Americans, one of the starkest benchmarks of inequality in the U.S., is on track to widen substantially after the pandemic exacerbated wealth concentration, according to new data that details 160 years of racial wealth disparities for the first time. Black Americans in 2019 had one-sixth the wealth of White Americans on …

The heat wave rolls on this week across North Texas. Highs will be back into the triple digits today. The record high for DFW is 102 and we’ll be awfully close this afternoon. With the humidity, the heat index will be between 102 and 105 for DFW. This is just short of heat advisory criteria for DFW, but a heat …

The congressional hearings on the Jan. 6 Capitol riot won’t save President Joe Biden and Democrats from a November midterm reckoning, but they could reshuffle the Republican hierarchy by easing former President Donald Trump’s grip on the GOP. Billed as must-see TV in some quarters, more than 20 million people tuned in to watch Thursday’s hearings. The ongoing, widely broadcast hearings promise …

Casie Pierce doesn’t usually work Fridays. But on the Friday after the draft Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked, Pierce, the development director for a Dallas-based abortion fund, which helps people pay for the procedure and associated logistics, had to be at her computer. She was monitoring the “rage giving.” “Am I optimistic watching funds rolling in? Of course …

A woman was shot early Saturday in the Red Bird area, Dallas police say. Officers responded to a shooting call at about 3:30 a.m. in the 2300 block of Elderoaks Lane, near West Camp Wisdom and South Hampton roads, police records show. The officers found the woman shot, police said, and she was taken to a hospital where she died. Authorities did …