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US Intelligence Officials Say Iran is to Blame for Hacks Targeting Trump, Biden-Harris Campaigns

US Intelligence Officials Say Iran is to Blame for Hacks Targeting Trump, Biden-Harris Campaigns

U.S. intelligence officials say they’re confident that Iran was responsible for the hack of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, casting the cyber intrusion as part of a brazen and broader effort by Tehran to interfere in American politics and to undermine faith in democratic institutions. Although the Trump campaign and private-sector cybersecurity investigators had previously said…MORE

Legendary Talk Show Host Phil Donahue Dies

Legendary Talk Show Host Phil Donahue Dies

Talk show legend Phil Donahue dies at 88 after a long illness. His family says Donahue died Sunday night, surrounded by his family including Marlo Thomas, his wife. “The Phil Donahue Show” ran from 1967 through 1996; he was the first to incorporate audiences in the talk show; influential, tackling tough topics. He won a…MORE

Five Killed in Crash Along I-35W in Fort Worth, Suspected Drunk Driver Charged

Five Killed in Crash Along I-35W in Fort Worth, Suspected Drunk Driver Charged

FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News ) – First responders worked a deadly wreck along north bound I-35 West near Seminary Drive in Fort Worth early Monday morning. Police said shortly after midnight, a black Camaro traveling at a high rate of speed northbound on I-35W rear-ended a sedan near the Seminary exit. The collision forced the…MORE

New Information Connected to Investigation into Two Suspicious Encounters Involving North Texas Children

New Information Connected to Investigation into Two Suspicious Encounters Involving North Texas Children

NORTH TEXAS (WBAP/KLIF News ) – There’s new information connected to investigations into two suspicious encounters involved what was initially believed to be adults targeting children in North Texas. Richardson police say they’ve identified the driver at the heart of an alarming encounter involving a child on Monday morning. The incident sparked an investigation after…MORE

Excessive Heat Warning for DFW

Excessive Heat Warning for DFW

(WBAP/KLIF) — URGENT – WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Fort Worth TX 154 PM CDT Thu Aug 15 2024 Grayson-Fannin-Lamar-Denton-Collin-Hunt-Delta-Hopkins-Tarrant- Dallas-Rockwall-Kaufman-Van Zandt-Rains- Including the cities of Rockwall, Fort Worth, Sulphur Springs, Greenville, Bonham, Sherman, Forney, East Tawakoni, Carrollton, Paris, Flower Mound, Edgewood, Point, Van, Heath, Commerce, Dallas, McKinney, Frisco, Kaufman, Lewisville, Arlington, Emory, Canton, Allen,…MORE

Biden Administration Reaches Deal to Cut Prices of 10 Popular Medicare Drugs

Biden Administration Reaches Deal to Cut Prices of 10 Popular Medicare Drugs

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Thursday that drug price negotiations will knock hundreds of dollars — in some cases thousands — off the list prices of 10 of Medicare’s most popular and costliest drugs. The discounts, agreed to after months of negotiations with drug manufacturers, range between 38% and 79% on the medication’s…MORE

Dallas City Council Renames S.M. Wright Freeway, Correcting Decades-Old Mistake

Dallas City Council Renames S.M. Wright Freeway, Correcting Decades-Old Mistake

DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF News ) – A road honoring a Dallas civil rights icon has been renamed in his honor this week, correcting a 29-year-old mistake. In 1995, Texas legislators renamed a three-mile stretch of South Central Expressway in south Dallas to S.M. Wright Freeway after the late civil rights leader pastor Dr. S.M. Wright. Senator…MORE

Hundreds Gather to Honor Fallen Fort Worth Police Officer at Candlelight Vigil

Hundreds Gather to Honor Fallen Fort Worth Police Officer at Candlelight Vigil

FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News ) – Hundreds of North Texans gathered Wednesday night to take part in the Fort Worth Police Departments’ candlelight vigil to honor a fallen officer. Sergeant Billy Randolph was killed while working a fiery wreck on I-35 near Sycamore School Road when he was fatally hit by a suspected drunk driver…MORE