A 19-year-old driver died after McKinney police fired shots during a confrontation at a crash scene November 8, and one officer suffered a gunshot wound, according to the department’s account carried by local news outlets.

Authorities have not identified who fired the round that wounded the officer. The Texas Rangers have taken over the investigation.

Officers responded to a single-vehicle crash around 7:50 p.m. in the 1700 block of Wilmeth Road. Police identified the driver as Jair Ruenes Galvan.

According to the police account, Ruenes Galvan refused officers’ commands when they approached him. A physical confrontation followed, and officers fired shots. The available account does not establish that Ruenes Galvan fired a weapon.

Ruenes Galvan was taken to Medical City McKinney with life-threatening injuries and later died. The wounded officer went to an area hospital with injuries police described as non-life-threatening.

Two officers were involved in the incident. The department placed both on paid administrative leave in accordance with the department’s protocol.

Police have not provided further details explaining what led to the shooting or how the officer suffered the gunshot wound. The Rangers’ investigation remains ongoing.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone affected by this incident. We recognize the seriousness of this event and remain committed to ensuring a thorough and transparent investigation,” the McKinney Police Department said in a social media statement about the incident.

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A federal proposal would eliminate the discretionary grace period of up to 60 days for H-1B and other foreign workers after a job ends. That would narrow the window for a Texas employer to sponsor a worker who wants to stay in the country after a layoff.

The Department of Homeland Security published the proposal on September 11. Public comments close November 10 at 11 p.m. Central through Regulations.gov under docket USCIS-2026-0364. The current rule remains in effect, as The Dallas Express previously reported.

Texas ranked second to California with 109,130 positions on certified labor condition applications for H-1B, H-1B1 and E-3 workers in the first nine months of fiscal 2026, the U.S. Department of Labor reported. The filings can cover renewals and transfers as well as new employment.

Protections for Texas workers

Federal law requires H-1B sponsors to pay the higher of the local prevailing wage or what they pay comparable employees. H-1B-dependent employers and those formally found to have willfully violated program rules generally must recruit U.S. workers and offer the job to any equally or better qualified U.S. applicant when seeking a nonexempt H-1B worker. They also face a ban on displacing U.S. workers from essentially equivalent jobs within 90 days before or after filing the petition.

On July 7, Texas consulting firm Creative Team LLC agreed to pay a $4,730 civil penalty after the Justice Department said it found the company restricted a job ad to H-1B visa holders without legal justification. The settlement requires recruiter training and a review of hiring policies.

Texans can report discriminatory job ads to the Justice Department. The Labor Department investigates suspected H-1B wage and displacement violations through Project Firewall.

A separate September 18 executive order directs federal agencies reviewing H-1B filings to consider whether employers laid off similarly situated U.S. workers in the previous year or plan to do so.

What changes after a layoff

The current regulation lets H-1B, H-1B1, E-1, E-2, E-3, L-1, O-1 and TN workers and their dependents maintain status for up to 60 days after a layoff or resignation, or until their authorized validity period ends if sooner. It applies once per validity period. Workers need separate authorization to work during that time.

Under the proposal, DHS says affected workers would fall out of their employment-based status the day after the job ends. They would generally have to leave unless they have another lawful basis to remain.

Eligible H-1B workers could still start a new job when the next employer files a qualifying petition or on the requested start date, whichever is later. Employers seeking to avoid a gap would need to file sooner. Labor Department review of the required labor condition application can take up to seven working days.

DHS says the change would “reduce administrative burdens” by ending case-by-case grace period reviews. Houston immigration attorney Emily Neumann warned that paid notice periods and furloughs could complicate determining when a job officially ends.

DHS estimates that new employers filed petitions for about 3,795 workers a year during the grace period, based on records that cover both layoffs and resignations. The agency anticipates possible lost pay, temporary productivity losses and more employers paying for return travel under existing H-1B and O-1 rules. DHS gave no estimate of Texas jobs gained or lost.

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An engine burn during NASA’s Artemis II mission disturbed Earth’s upper atmosphere for more than 3,100 miles across North America, according to a preliminary study led by researchers at Taiwan’s National Cheng Kung University. The effect on GPS accuracy remains an open question.

The team used data from about 3,500 ground stations that receive signals from GPS and other satellite navigation systems. Researchers mapped shifts in electron concentrations in the ionosphere, the electrically charged region of the upper atmosphere.

The team recorded three disturbances. The first followed liftoff from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 1. The strongest came nearly two hours later, when the rocket’s upper stage fired for about 18 minutes to raise the spacecraft’s orbit. The disturbance followed the spacecraft’s path eastward, with little spread to the north or south.

The third disturbance came on April 2, when Orion’s main engine fired to send the crew toward the moon. The two later burns produced stronger disturbances than liftoff because they released energy directly into the ionosphere, the researchers concluded.

What the findings mean for GPS

Changes in electron concentrations can delay navigation signals traveling to Earth, which can affect the position a receiver calculates, according to the National Weather Service.

A positioning error of a few meters could affect self-driving cars and drones, study co-author Charles Lin, an earth sciences professor at National Cheng Kung University, told Space.com. The researchers called for more monitoring to determine how similar burns could affect satellite navigation and radio communications.

The April mission

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch flew with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen. It was the first crewed lunar flyby in more than 50 years, as The Dallas Express previously reported.

The crew splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off San Diego on April 10 and returned to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on April 11.

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President Donald Trump told reporters Sunday that he was joking when he said he had offered UFC CEO Dana White the job of White House press secretary.

“I will tell you, I was only kidding,” Trump said before boarding Air Force One in West Palm Beach, Florida. He pointed to the UFC fighters he had suggested White bring as assistants.

LMAO! President Trump says he was just KIDDING about making Dana White White House Press Secretary — but then Dana actually liked the idea and he’s flying to DC anyway

“I WAS only kidding, but Dana LOVES the idea. You wouldn’t mess around with him so much!”

“That was an example of something where I was kidding, and then people said, you know, that’s actually a pretty good idea!”

Let Dana have at least ONE ROUND with the fake news at the podium

It would be glorious!

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) November 8, 2026

Trump said he still expected White to visit him at the White House on Monday for other reasons.

In a Truth Social post a day earlier, Trump named several current and former UFC fighters as possible assistants, including Islam Makhachev, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Justin Gaethje, Daniel Cormier and Amanda Nunes. He included a collage depicting White at a lectern with the presidential seal alongside images of the fighters.

“Dana will be a Press Secretary like none other. Dana, please take the job!” Trump wrote.

White told reporters in London on November 7 that he planned to fly to Washington to meet with Trump, The Associated Press reported. Before the news conference, White shared an image on Instagram depicting himself at a White House lectern with the caption “On to the next chapter.”

The press secretary job remains vacant after Katie Zacharia left the role five days into her tenure, The Associated Press reported. Zacharia held her first briefing on October 13.

Trump named Stephen Miller to succeed Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff on Friday. Miller starts November 9, as The Dallas Express reported.

White introduced Trump at the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee before Trump accepted the party’s presidential nomination.

White and Trump appeared together at UFC Freedom 250, a June 14 fight card on the White House South Lawn. The event took place on Trump’s 80th birthday as part of the celebration of America’s 250th anniversary. The Dallas Express previously covered White’s plans for the event.

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Speaking to reporters in Florida before traveling to Paris for a Group of Seven meeting, Rubio said Trump had confronted a national security threat even though the decision was not necessarily popular, according to the Associated Press.

His comments followed the November 3 midterm elections, when Democrats gained control of Congress. Opposition to the Iran war and rising energy prices contributed to Republican losses.

Vice President JD Vance had previously pointed to the war as a major factor in the election results. Trump acknowledged its political impact but maintained that launching the conflict was the correct decision.

Rubio also addressed ongoing negotiations with Iran, saying the two sides remained far from an agreement because of Iranian demands.

The conflict, now more than eight months old, has disrupted oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, contributing to higher fuel prices.

Nvidia’s board announced an independent investigation Sunday after reports that Chinese intelligence targeted CEO Jensen Huang. In a separate message to employees, Huang acknowledged that he had been unfaithful to his wife.

A committee of independent directors will oversee the inquiry with help from independent outside counsel. The board said it had “no reason to believe that either national security or NVIDIA secrets were compromised” and said it would examine all available information. Directors expressed confidence in Huang and his leadership team.

“I was unfaithful to my wife,” Huang wrote. He apologized to his family and to Nvidia’s employees, directors, partners and shareholders. “I support the investigation and will cooperate fully,” he wrote.

U.S. officials concluded that Alice Huang, who worked for Nvidia customer Megaspeed in Singapore, had passed information to Beijing, The New York Times reported on October 29, citing people briefed on U.S. intelligence. Alice Huang did not respond to the Times’ requests for comment.

Jensen Huang told Nvidia’s board he had been intimate with the Megaspeed executive, the Times separately reported Sunday. Guo Jiakun, a spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry, called the October report “unsubstantiated” during an October 30 briefing.

House chairmen seek a briefing

In a November 4 letter, three Republican House committee chairmen asked Jensen Huang to brief them behind closed doors on November 18. They want to know about his interactions with Alice Huang and Nvidia’s safeguards against foreign espionage.

U.S. Reps. Brian Mast (R-Florida), John Moolenaar (R-Michigan) and Rick Crawford (R-Arkansas) asked Huang to confirm by November 11 or propose another date when Congress is in session.

“It is vital that Congress determines the extent to which U.S. national security has been placed at risk,” they wrote.

President Donald Trump called Huang an “honorable guy” Sunday and said he had not discussed the allegations with him, Reuters reported.

Fort Worth factory

Huang attended the July 21 opening of a Wistron factory in Fort Worth that makes Nvidia hardware for artificial intelligence systems, the manufacturer said. The Fort Worth City Council approved tax abatements for two Wistron facilities in June 2025, as The Dallas Express previously reported.

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Texas Comptroller Don Huffines (R-Texas) asked President Donald Trump, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Friday to audit every state and local government entity in Texas. The comptroller’s office said apparent failures in its own hiring records could leave taxpayers facing about $5 million or more in federal civil penalties.

The figure comes from a preliminary internal estimate. Problems with how the agency completed, verified and kept federal Form I-9 records may date back 20 years, the office said. The release gave no count of affected records or findings about whether any employees lacked work authorization.

Huffines, a former Dallas-area state senator, took office August 1 after Gov. Greg Abbott (R-Texas) appointed him. He announced the agency-wide review three days later.

The office hired independent outside counsel to investigate and said it has begun fixing the problems through its Taxpayer First Project. It said it would accept any penalties it considers legitimate.

“If 90 days of auditing found this in one agency, Texans should ask what is sitting in all the others,” Huffines said in the release.

Huffines also said early findings suggested people inside government knew about the lapses and concealed them. The release gave no details about who allegedly concealed the problems or the evidence behind the claim.

What federal rules require

Employers use Form I-9 to verify a new hire’s identity and work authorization. Texas law separately requires state agencies to use E-Verify for new hires. The federal system checks information from the form against government records. The release gave no findings about the agency’s use of E-Verify.

Federal rules generally give employers at least three business days’ notice before an I-9 inspection. Federal law allows civil penalties for certain paperwork violations.

The release gave no timetable for the outside investigation. State Sen. Sarah Eckhardt (D-Austin) is set to succeed Huffines in January after winning Tuesday’s election, according to unofficial returns previously reported by The Dallas Express.

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Dallas police arrested Jimmy Spurger Jr., 54, on a murder charge after a fatal stabbing on North Akard Street, the department said Sunday. Spurger worked as an investigator for the Dallas County Public Defender’s Office, his county biography states.

Officers answered a health and welfare call in the 2300 block of North Akard Street around 11:13 p.m. Friday. Investigators determined that someone the victim knew had stabbed her. Dallas Fire-Rescue pronounced 53-year-old Maria Spurger dead, police said.

Dallas County jail records show authorities booked Jimmy Spurger on November 7. The record lists a murder charge under warrant number F2677230. Police described the charge as a first-degree felony.

Maria Spurger was his wife, FOX 4 reported, citing an arrest affidavit. The outlet’s account says responders forced their way into the apartment, found furniture blocking the door and discovered her on a couch with a knife in her neck. Officers found Spurger in a bedroom with blood on him and a small knife nearby.

Dallas police announced the arrest after the Friday night stabbing, as previously reported by The Dallas Express.

Spurger spent more than 20 years in law enforcement before joining the public defender’s office, his county biography states. During his final decade in law enforcement, he supervised investigations in the Child Abuse and Family Violence Division of the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office.

At the public defender’s office, he worked primarily on capital murder defense cases. He examined evidence, interviewed witnesses and developed mitigation information for defense teams, according to the biography.

Police continue to investigate the motive and circumstances of the stabbing under case number 163978-2026.

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Dallas-based Oncor Electric Delivery expects its next five-year construction program to grow roughly 20% as requests for data-center power continue to mount, raising a central question for Texas electricity customers: Who pays for infrastructure if ambitious projects never materialize?

Oncor disclosed that its transmission queue contained about 293 gigawatts of data-center requests as of September 30. That figure exceeds Texas’ record 91.1-gigawatt summer electricity peak more than threefold. But connection requests are not operating facilities, firm power commitments, or a forecast that all the projects will proceed.

The utility’s financial plans are already growing. Oncor expects to spend approximately $9 billion on capital projects in 2026, its largest annual program, after spending $6.3 billion through September. The company now projects an approximately 20% increase for its 2027–2031 base capital plan, although it has not finalized that forecast.

The Cost Of Projects That Never Open

The company previously announced a $47.5 billion base capital plan for 2026–2030. An increase of roughly 20% against that figure would imply about $57 billion over the next five-year period, but Oncor has not formally adopted that amount, and the years covered differ.

The risk extends beyond the headline spending figure.

Oncor said it held approximately $6 billion in collateral from customers seeking generation or large commercial and industrial connections at the end of September. The financial security aims to reduce the risk that existing ratepayers absorb costs after developers cancel projects for which Oncor has already begun infrastructure work.

Not all $6 billion covers data centers. Oncor identified approximately $2 billion in collateral associated with projects in ERCOT’s initial large-load review, known as Batch Zero. The utility has not claimed that collateral eliminates every potential ratepayer expense.

Oncor also disclosed that new base rates effective June 1 contributed to its quarterly earnings increase. It reported $572 million in third-quarter net income, up from $380 million a year earlier. Those existing rate changes do not establish that the proposed data-center connections have increased anyone’s bill.

Regulators Separate Requests From Real Demand

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas and state regulators approved Batch Zero in June to study major electricity users seeking at least 75 megawatts together, rather than reviewing each project independently. The process examines available grid capacity and the transmission improvements that new customers could require.

Oncor said ERCOT has conditionally classified roughly 24 gigawatts of its submitted customer load as base load, including 10 gigawatts already receiving electricity, and another 21 gigawatts as studied load. Those classifications represent a narrower group than the entire 293-gigawatt data-center request queue.

ERCOT still must complete its audit of applicants’ qualifications and community effects. Oncor expects that review in December and a final transmission plan reflecting Batch Zero in fall 2027. Crucially, Oncor has excluded the Batch Zero projects from its current base capital plan.

North Texas Already Sees The Trade-Offs

Infrastructure needs extend beyond data centers. Oncor said its work includes service for an expected 18 megawatts of additional demand from DFW Airport terminal expansions and new two-way electrical feeds for hospitals in Fort Worth’s Medical Innovation District.

But major transmission projects also bring substantial costs and land-use disputes. As The Dallas Express previously covered, Texas regulators approved 424.2 miles of Oncor high-voltage lines in August, with combined estimated costs approaching $3.95 billion. Landowners questioned the routes, while state regulators cited reliability needs. Those estimates do not specify a monthly household bill impact.

The Dallas Express also documented Keller’s recent agreement concerning a proposed Westlake data-center campus. Those stories illustrate both the pressure to connect new commercial demand and the costs communities seek to control.

Oncor’s latest disclosure leaves the most consequential decisions ahead: which requests survive ERCOT’s scrutiny, how much construction those projects actually require, and how regulators distribute the resulting costs.

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