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 …

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 …

Denton police have arrested a suspect in an assault in a Buc-ee’s parking lot that was captured in a viral Twitter video on Saturday. Police Chief Frank Dixon said in a tweet Saturday evening that 44-year-old Jason Lata had been booked into the city jail on one count of assault causing bodily injury. His bail was set at $15,000 and …

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan reported six more coronavirus-related deaths during the past 24 hours, pushing the death toll from the deadly disease to 6,513. As many as 33,725 samples were tested during this period, out of which 632 turned out to be positive, according to the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC). The number of Covid-19 cases across the country has reached 314,616 …

PARIS: Fifth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas reached the fourth round at the French Open for the second year in a row. The Greek advanced when Aljaz Bedene stopped playing in the third set because of an injured right ankle. Tsitsipas led 6-1, 6-2, 3-1 when Bedene retired. Tsitsipas was dominating the match. He had more than twice as many winners as …

KARACHI: Unseeded Mohammad Saleem reached the first quarter-final of a ranking event in his career when he inflicted a 5-2 defeat on Bahadur Khan in the 12th National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) Ranking Snooker Championship at the bank’s sports complex here on Saturday. Saleem won the battle 72-7, 16-104, 75-42, 8-65, 58-22, 88-10, 75-8. Defending champion and top seed Mohammad …

British-Pakistani singer Sirine Jahangir made history after she entered has the semifinals of Britain’s Got Talent, following her melodious performances earlier. Delivering soul-stirring performances, the 14-year-old visually impaired singer became the first ever British-Pakistani to enter the show’s semi-finals. Jahangir had won over the hearts of judges as well as the audience with her unmatched talent and her inspiring story of …

KARACHI: Central Punjab suffered an inexplicable batting calamity as trophy-holders Northern surged to their third victory on the trot in the First XI segment of the National T20 Cup in Multan on Saturday. Chasing 156 at the Multan Cricket Stadium, Central Punjab were very much in the contest at 90-3 in the 13th over before losing the remaining seven wickets …

ISLAMABAD: The approval of reforms recommended by multilateral lenders would enable the government to complete the three development policy credits (DPC) in due course of time, said Economic Reforms Minister Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtyar on Saturday. During a meeting with World Bank Country Director for Pakistan, Najy Benhassine, Bakhtyar shared Prime Minister Imran Khan’s direction to expedite economic reforms in coordination …