Category Archives: WBAP 24/7 News

The $8.5 Billion Dollar School Funding Package Passes the Texas Senate
Back to school and happy time! Pile of books and backpack with Texas flag on the desk at the elementary school.(WBAP/KLIF) – AUSTIN, TX – On Friday, the Senate approved a school funding bi...
Cumulus Media May 24, 2025

Indianapolis Colts Owner Jim Irsay Has Died At Age 65
Photo Courtesy – Getty Images (WBAP/KLIF) – Longtime Indianapolis Colts owner and General Manager Jim Irsay has passed at the age of 65. Irsays’ father bought the team in 1972 for $1...
Cumulus Media May 21, 2025

Stock Market Tanks as Treasury Yields Spike
(WBAP/KLIF) — NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street slumped under the weight of pressure from the bond market, where Treasury yields climbed on worries about the U.S. government's spiraling debt and other...
Cumulus Media May 21, 2025

Fort Worth ISD Approves A Plan To Close And Consolidate Several Different Schools
(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 sch...
Cumulus Media May 21, 2025

Texas Man Is Executed 13 years To The Day Of A Store Robbery In Which He Set A Clerk On Fire
HUNTSVILLE , ELLIS UNIT , TX – NOVEMBER 14: Lethal injection Death Chamber at a Texas prison on November 14, 1991 at Huntsville, The Ellis Unit, Texas (Photo by Paul Harris/Getty Images)HUNTSVIL...
Cumulus Media May 21, 2025

Trump On Capitol Hill Implores Divided Republicans To Unify Behind His Big Tax Cuts Bill
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 R...
Cumulus Media May 20, 2025

Judge: US Officials Must Keep Control Of Migrants Sent To South Sudan In Case Removals Were Unlawful
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...
Cumulus Media May 20, 2025

Rubio Defends Trump’s Foreign Policy As Democrats Press Him On Gaza Aid And White South Africans
WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 20: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio testifies before the Senate Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs in the Dirksen S...
Cumulus Media May 20, 2025

Israeli Strikes Kill At Least 85 In Gaza As Israel Allows More Aid Into Palestinian Territory
GAZA CITY, GAZA – MAY 19: Smoke rises after an Israeli attack on Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City, Gaza on May 19, 2025. (Photo by Mahmoud Issa/Anadolu via Getty Images)DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip...
Cumulus Media May 20, 2025

Trump Selects Concept For $175 Billion ‘Golden Dome’ Missile Defense System
WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 20: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks alongside Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in the Oval Office at the White House on May 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. President Trump a...
Cumulus Media May 20, 2025









