(WBAP/KLIF) – FORT WORTH, TX – Last night, the Fort Worth ISD board of trustees approved a plan to close and consolidate 18 different campuses over the next five years. Like many Texas school districts, Fort Worth ISD has experienced a decline in student enrollment which is a trend that is projected to continue over…… MORE
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man has been executed 13 years to the day of a convenience store robbery in which he set a clerk on fire in a Dallas suburb. Matthew Lee Johnson received a lethal injection Tuesday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville. He was condemned for the May 20, 2012,…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has implored House Republicans on Capitol Hill to drop their fights over his big tax cuts bill. He spoke privately for at least an hour trying to unite House Republicans on the multitrillion-dollar package that is at risk of collapsing before planned votes this week. Trump was upbeat afterward,…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge ruled late Tuesday that U.S. officials must retain custody and control of migrants apparently removed to South Sudan in case he orders their removals were unlawful. U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy in Massachusetts ordered an emergency hearing for Wednesday, after attorneys for immigrants said in court documents that…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Democratic senators have sparred over a wide range of the Trump administration’s foreign policies: Ukraine and Russia, the Middle East, Latin America, the slashing of the U.S. foreign assistance budget, refugee admissions and more. At a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing Tuesday, Rubio defended the administration’s…… MORE