DALLAS – (WBAP/KLIF) – In a unanimous vote, the Federal Open Market Committee has lowered its benchmark overnight borrowing rate by a quarter percentage point, to a target range of 4.50%-4.75%.The Fed justifies easing the rate as it supports employment as as much of a priority as stopping inflation. This rate sets what banks charge…… MORE
FORT WORTH, Texas — (WBAP/KLIF) The man accused of shooting a Texas police chief earlier this month has been arrested in Fort Worth. According to judicial records, Seth Altman, 33, was arrested and booked into the Fort Worth Jail for attempted capital murder of a police officer. The Fort Worth Police Department says Altman was taken…… MORE
DALLAS – (WBAP/KLIF) – Several sources now reporting Israel’s retaliatory strikes on Iran have now begun. This follows more than two hundred missile attacks on Israel back on October the first, with Israel vowing retaliation. America’s F-16 fighter jets, reported arriving in the Middle East from a German air base; arriving to undisclosed locations in…… MORE
U S CENTRAL COMMAND – (WBAP/KLIF)- American air reinforcements are arriving today in Israel; the second round this month. F-16 fighter jets; placed ahead of the expected Israeli attack on Iran, in retaliation for Iran’s missile blitz on Israel October first. Earlier this month, a squadron of U S F-15’s arrived at an undisclosed base,…… MORE
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prosecutors will recommend Erik and Lyle Menendez be resentenced for the 1989 killings of their parents in the family’s Beverly Hills home, providing the brothers with a chance at freedom after 34 years behind bars. An official with knowledge of the decision who was not authorized to speak on the record…… MORE
(FORT WORTH) – FORT WORTH STAR TELEGRAM – If you’re considering voting early in Tarrant County, know in advance wait times have been running up to 45 minutes to do that, at some polling locations. The Fort Worth Star Telegram reports the HSC voting site was one of a dozen or more across the county…… MORE
DALLAS (AP) — Republican Sen. Ted Cruz and Democratic Rep. Colin Allred met for their only debate Tuesday night, on WFAA-TV trading attacks over abortion and immigration in a closely watched race that could help determine which party wins control of the U.S. Senate. Nationally, Democrats view Texas as one of their few potential pickup…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) – The Pentagon says the US will send an advanced anti-missile system — and US troops to operate it — to Israel “to help bolster Israel’s air defenses following Iran’s unprecedented attacks. Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, says It is not the first time the US has deployed the system to the…… MORE
BOSTON, Mass. (AP) — Ethel Kennedy, who lost her husband Sen. Robert Kennedy to assassination, has died. She was 96. Kennedy was by her husband’s side when he was killed while running for president in 1969. She endured that tragedy and many others while raising their 11 children. A millionaire’s daughter and family matriarch, she…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) — JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel warned Lebanese people to evacuate border communities Tuesday to avoid harm from limited ground operations it said were launched against Hezbollah, and said it would retaliate if Hezbollah ally Iran launched a missile attack on Israel that a senior U.S. official said could come “imminently.” Israeli airstrikes and artillery fire…… MORE
