Category Archives: WBAP 24/7 News
COVID-19 Is Swamping Health Investigators
Undated (AP) – Health investigators across the U.S. are finding it nearly impossible to keep up with the deluge of new COVID-19 infections, and carry out contact tracing efforts that were once s...
Aug 29, 2021
Voting Rights Rallies Target Proposed Laws
Undated (WBAP/KLIF) – Thousands of voting rights advocates rallied across the country Saturday, calling for sweeping protections against what they see as a further erosion of the Voting Rights A...
Aug 29, 2021
Dangerous Hurricane Ida – Could be the worst since the 1850s.
UPDATE: Hurricane Ida has made landfall on Grand Isle, Louisiana, packing sustained winds of 150 miles an hour, 7 miles an hour shy of Category 5 status, and howling wind gusts to 185 miles an hour. M...
Aug 28, 2021
President Biden Warns More Attacks Likely as U S Drawdown Begins
UPDATE: Officials say a U.S. military drone strike on a vehicle reported as packed with explosives and headed to the Kabul airport for another suicide bombing mission destroyed the vehicle in the city...
Aug 28, 2021
Southwest Airlines Cuts Daily Flights for 2021
DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – If you've got a flight with Southwest Airlines you better make sure it hasn't been canceled. The Fort Worth base airline is reducing its flight schedule for the remainder of...
Aug 27, 2021
Ida Aims to Hit New Orleans on Hurricane Katrina Anniversary
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Hurricane Ida struck Cuba on Friday as a rapidly intensifying storm that could speed across warm Gulf waters and slam into Louisiana as a Category 3 hurricane on Sunday, the Nationa...
Aug 27, 2021
US Presses on with Evacuations Despite Fears of More Attacks
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - The United States pressed on into the final days of the chaotic airlift from Afghanistan amid tighter security and warnings of more possible attacks Friday, a day after a dev...
Aug 27, 2021
Governor Abbott Orders Texas Flags Lowered to Half-Staff in Honor of U.S. Service Members Killed in Kabul Attack
(Photo: Governor Abbott) AUSTIN – Governor Greg Abbott has ordered Texas flags across the state to be lowered to half-staff to honor the U.S. service members who lost their lives during an attac...
Aug 27, 2021
DFW Group Demanding Congress Take Action on Eviction Moratorium
Photo: DFW Tenants Union DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF) – North Texans are reacting to a U.S. Supreme court ruling that lifts the Biden administration’s moratorium on evictions. The Supreme Court said...
Aug 27, 2021
Virus Surge Breaks Hospital Records Amid Rising Toll on Kids
Photo courtesy WFAA Kentucky and Texas joined a growing list of states that are seeing record numbers of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in a surge that is overwhelming doctors and nurses and afflictin...
Aug 27, 2021
