United States President Donald Trump on Saturday nominated Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, and she pledged to become a justice in the mold of the late staunch conservative Antonin Scalia, setting another milestone in Trump’s rightward shift of the top US judicial body. Trump’s announcement during a flag-festooned White House Rose Garden ceremony — with Barrett, 48, by …

Fort Worth police are investigating and have put on restricted duty an officer who posted a racist meme to his Facebook page. The meme, according to KTVT-TV (Channel 11), included an image of a Black man in a casket with accompanying text that read: “The face you make when you don’t understand ‘stop resisting.’” According to a release from the …

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on Saturday, capping a dramatic reshaping of the federal judiciary that will resonate for a generation and that he hopes will provide a needed boost to his reelection effort. Republican senators are already lining up for a swift confirmation of Barrett ahead of the Nov. 3 …

CHICAGO — Although Amy Coney Barrett is the president’s choice to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, she is more aptly described as heir to another departed Supreme Court justice: conservative hero Antonin Scalia. Like Scalia, for whom she once clerked, she is a committed Roman Catholic as well as a firm devotee of his favored interpretation of the Constitution known …

The warming trend continues this weekend across North Texas. Temperatures reached the upper 80s Saturday afternoon. After a cloudy start to Sunday, sunshine and a southwest breeze will warm it back to near 90 by Sunday afternoon. The next cold front is expected to arrive late Sunday night into Monday morning with showers and thunderstorms expected to develop. The best …

Grand Prairie police are looking for suspects in the fatal shooting of a 26-year-old man at an apartment complex early Saturday. Police were called around 2 a.m. to the apartment complex in the 600 block of West Pioneer Parkway. Officers found Mario Cantarero lying on the ground near one of the buildings and gave him first aid. Cantarero was taken …

Dallas County reported 373 more coronavirus cases Saturday, including 202 that the county considers new and 171 from previous months. Officials also announced two more COVID-19 deaths. Labs either report coronavirus cases directly to the county health department or to the state health department, which then relays the information to individual counties. Of cases reported Saturday, Dallas County health officials …

Dallas police are investigating after three people were found dead inside a motel room Saturday in northwest Dallas. Officers responded around 12 p.m. to the Super 7 Inn at 10335 Gardner Road, near West Northwest Highway and Walton Walker Service Road, after the manager found three people dead in one of the rooms, police said. Dallas Fire-Rescue pronounced the victims …

Health authorities are closely watching an outbreak of respiratory illness caused by a new strain of coronavirus known as COVID-19. Here are the answers to key questions about the outbreak: What is the new virus? Scientists have identified the virus as a novel, or new, coronavirus. The name comes from the Latin word for crowns or halos, which coronaviruses resemble …

ISLAMABAD: At least six more patients died of coronavirus during the last 24 hours in Pakistan, taking the tally to 6,457, whereas, the new infections were reported up to 694. The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) confirmed that the active cases of COVID-19 reached 8,205 and 295,613 patients recovered from the virus across the country. The total count of …