(WBAP/KLIF) — WFAA News 8 -The Dallas Mavericks issued an invite to a hand-selected group of media members on Monday, offering them the chance to attend a “small media roundtable discussion” on Tuesday with Mavs CEO Rick Welts and General Manager Nico Harrison. The invite, sent out with less than 24 hours’ notice, beckoned individual…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) – The US Department of Transportation is pulling millions of federal dollars earmarked to develop high-speed rail between Dallas and Houston. Amtrak had previously received a nearly $64 million dollar grant for the proposed 240-mile rail line, but will now spend the money on other projects. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy called the high-speed rail…… MORE
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s top advisers and El Salvador president Nayib Bukele say that they have no basis for the small Central American nation to return a Maryland man who was wrongly deported there last month. Trump administration officials are emphasizing that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was sent to a notorious gang prison…… MORE
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A man who allegedly scaled an iron security fence in the middle of the night, eluded police and set fire to the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion has been denied bail Monday after a brief court appearance. Cody Balmer did not enter a plea to charges that include attempted homicide, terrorism and arson.…… MORE
BOSTON (AP) — The federal government says it is freezing more than $2.2 billion in grants and contracts to Harvard University. The institution says Monday it won’t comply with a list of demands from the Trump administration as part of its campaign against antisemitism. The list at Harvard was updated Friday, and includes government and…… MORE