Category Archives: WBAP 24/7 News

Missing in Iran: US Service member
Associated Press: The search is on for one missing U.S. service member while another was rescued after two U.S. warplanes went down in separate incidents, including the first shoot-down since the Iran...
Mariana A Apr 04, 2026

Choctaw Code Talkers Gather in Fort Worth
(WBAP/KLIF) -- AP -- Nuchi Nashoba grew up looking at a photograph of her great-grandfather Ben Carterby inside her grandmother's Oklahoma home. But, she didn't know much about the man in the frame ot...
Mike Traina Apr 03, 2026

US employers added a surprisingly strong 178,000 jobs last month
WASHINGTON (AP) - American employers added a surprisingly strong 178,000 new jobs last month, rebounding from a dismal February. And the unemployment rate dipped to 4.3%. The Labor Department reported...
Bruce Collins Apr 03, 2026

War Secretary Pete Hegseth Asks Army Chief of Staff to Step Down
(WBAP/KLIF) -- WASHINGTON (AP) - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has asked the Army's top uniformed officer to step down, the Pentagon said Thursday without giving a reason for the departure as the Uni...
Mike Traina Apr 02, 2026 FILE - Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George speaks during the POW/MIA National Recognition Day Ceremony at the Pentagon, Sept. 19, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, file)

Bondi out as Attorney general.
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump says Pam Bondi is out as his attorney general. Bondi's departure ends the contentious tenure of a Trump loyalist who upended the Justice Department's culture o...
Bruce Collins Apr 02, 2026

US crude tops $110 per barrel and Wall Street tumbles
NEW YORK (AP) - Stocks are dropping and oil prices are soaring after President Donald Trump vowed the U.S. will continue to attack Iran and failed to offer a clear timetable for ending the conflict in...
Bruce Collins Apr 02, 2026 SergeyP / Depositphotos.com

Latest on Iran War
Associated Press: President Donald Trump said U.S. forces will keep hitting Iran "very hard" in the next two or three weeks and bring the country "back to the Stone Ages," even as he touted the succes...
Bruce Collins Apr 02, 2026 TomasRagina / Depositphotos.com

Lawsuit Against Johnson Amendment Dismissed
(WBAP/KLIF) -- AP -- A federal judge in Tyler dismissed a lawsuit on Tuesday that sought to allow churches to endorse political candidates without losing their tax-exempt status. Several Texas churche...
Bruce Collins Apr 01, 2026

Iran hits Kuwait airport and a tanker off Qatar while strikes batter Tehran
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Iran has hit an oil tanker off the coast of Qatar and Kuwait's airport. Airstrikes meanwhile have battered Tehran. The unrelenting tempo continued hours after U.S. P...
Bruce Collins Apr 01, 2026

Trump to Address Nation Tonight
President Trump is scheduled to address the nation on tonight, providing an update on the situation in Iran. On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt announced the address in a post on...
Bruce Collins Mar 31, 2026









