Pilgrims trickled into Makkah after Saudi Arabian authorities on Sunday partially lifted a coronavirus ban on performing Umrah after a seven-month curb. Saudi Arabia, which held a scaled back Haj earlier this year limited to domestic worshippers, has allowed citizens and residents to start performing Umrah as of Sunday at 30 per cent capacity, or 6,000 pilgrims a day. It will open …

Kuwait’s new Emir Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah met on Sunday with senior US and Iranian officials who separately paid respects over the death of the Gulf Arab state’s former ruler. Sheikh Nawaf assumed power after the death last Tuesday of his brother Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad. The late emir balanced his nation’s ties between larger neighbours Saudi Arabia and Iran and kept a …

Beautiful fall weather continues in North Texas this weekend. After a cool start, Saturday has been breezy and a bit warmer with gusty south winds and highs in the low to mid 80s. Another weak cold front will arrive late tonight into Sunday morning, dropping temperatures once again. A few scattered showers will be possible with the front between midnight …

Police say a teenager was fatally shot at a Plano park Saturday. Officers were dispatched about 2:20 a.m. Saturday to investigate reports of a shooting at Jack Carter Park. Before arriving, they learned of a teenager at a local hospital who had been shot. Officers determined the 18-year-old, Jacob Lyle Rusk, had been shot at the park. He later was …

Dallas Police are investigating the shooting death of a man in West Dallas early Saturday morning. Around 12:30 a.m., police were called to the 3100 block of Conroe Street. There, they found Esquibel Leelineo Rodriguez, 38, wounded from multiple gunshots. He was transported to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Anyone with information is asked to contact Det. Scott …

President Donald Trump has released a new hospital video in which he says he’s starting to feel better and hopes to “be back soon.” In the four-minute video issued Saturday evening, Trump says he “wasn’t feeling so well” when he was admitted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Friday after testing positive for the coronavirus. But he says …

PLANO — Democratic voters in North Texas are hopeful that President Donald Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis pushes virus skeptics and the administration to take it more seriously, while GOP voters say the White House has handled the unprecedented epidemic well. Trump tested positive for the coronavirus just a month before the hotly contested 2020 election and is convalescing at Walter Reed National Military …

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s campaign is committing to releasing the results of all future COVID-19 tests the candidate takes. Biden spokesman Andrew Bates said in a prepared statement Saturday evening that the former vice president is tested “regularly.” But before President Donald Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis earlier this week, Biden had not disclosed full details of his testing protocol or …

AUSTIN — Several of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s top aides are accusing him of improper influence, abuse of office, bribery and more, The Austin-American Statesman and KVUE-TV reported late Saturday. Seven of the agency’s most senior employees sent the human resources director a letter stating they have “a good faith belief that the attorney general is violating federal and/or state law …

Dallas County officials issued a late-night bulletin with Saturday’s coronavirus data, announcing 317 more coronavirus cases and seven more COVID-19 deaths. Of the cases announced Saturday, 296 are from the past two weeks and considered new, while 21 are old; 260 were confirmed, while 57 were probable. Underscoring a recent upswing in case counts, County Judge Clay Jenkins noted that …