Here’s what we know about the Dallas Mavericks owners and general manager’s reasons for trading away their 25-year-old franchise player. DALLAS — For over two decades, the face of any major decision involving the Dallas Mavericks was Mark Cuban. But with a new era upon the team, Cuban is no longer the majority owner. So…… MORE
WASHINGTON — Staff at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) were instructed to stay out of the agency’s Washington headquarters on Monday, according to an internal notice, following billionaire Elon Musk’s announcement that President Donald Trump had agreed to shut down the agency. USAID employees reported that over 600 staffers were locked out of…… MORE
Photo Courtesy of AP GENEVA — Last week, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) urged global leaders to pressure Washington into reversing President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the U.S. from the United Nations health agency, emphasizing that the U.S. would lose vital information about global disease outbreaks. During a private meeting with…… MORE
(WBAP/KLIF) – DALLAS, TX – Dallas city officials have hired Public Sector Search and Consulting, which is the same search firm that was used to recruit Eddie Garcia from San Jose in 2020, and Rene Hall from Detroit in 2017. Interim Chief Michael Igo has been running the department since Chief Eddie Garcia left for…… MORE
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — At least seven people were killed and 19 were injured when an air ambulance crashed to the ground in a busy Philadelphia neighborhood, The dead from Friday’s accident include a child who was receiving treatment at a Philadelphia hospital and her mother. All on board the medical transport jet were from Mexico.…… MORE
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Recovery crews and divers are searching the Potomac River for remains and clearing wreckage from the midair collision of a passenger jet and Army helicopter that killed 67 people. A Coast Guard cutter outfitted with a crane waited by the wreckage on Saturday as occasional recovery team members slipped into the…… MORE
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump has signed an order to impose stiff tariffs on imports from Mexico, Canada and China, fulfilling a campaign promise but raising the prospect of increase prices for American consumers. Trump is declaring an economic emergency to put duties of 10% on all imports from China and 25%…… MORE
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — The ceasefire in Gaza has seen its smoothest exchange yet of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners along with the reopening of the crucial Rafah crossing. Saturday’s exchange occurred two days before discussions on the truce’s far more difficult second phase begin. And Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet…… MORE
OXON HILL, Md. (AP) — Democrats have elected Ken Martin, the party leader in Minnesota, to lead the national party. They’re turning to a low-profile Midwestern political operative to coordinate their resistance to Donald Trump’s presidency. Martin succeeds Jaime Harrison of South Carolina atop the Democratic National Committee. Harrison didn’t seek another term after the…… MORE
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump has fired the director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Rohit Chopra, in the latest purge of a Biden administration holdover. Chopra was one of the more important regulators from the previous Democratic administration who was still on the job since Trump took office on Jan. 20.…… MORE
