WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says 25% tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada will start Tuesday, sparking renewed fears of a North American trade war. He announced the coming tariffs at the White House on Monday. He says the tariffs are to force the two U.S. neighbors to step up their fight against…… MORE
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CIA To Offer Tips On ‘Creative Problem Solving’ at SXSW Festival
WASHINGTON (AP) — The typically tight-lipped CIA is peeling back the curtain on some of its secrets with an upcoming presentation at South By Southwest festival. America’s preeminent spy agency plans to deliver a talk at this year’s edition of the SXSW music festival and tech conference held in Austin, Texas. According to the CIA,…… MORE
Gene Hackman And His Wife Tested Negative For Carbon Monoxide, Sheriff Says
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Authorities investigating the deaths of Oscar-winner Gene Hackman and his wife are waiting for more details from their autopsies to determine why they died. Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza said Friday that both tested negative for carbon monoxide. Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, were found Wednesday at the…… MORE
Texas Measles Cases Rise To 146 In An Outbreak That Led To A Child’s Death
DALLAS (AP) — Texas health officials say the number of people with measles has increased to 146 in rural West Texas outbreak that led this week to the death of a school-aged child who was not vaccinated. The Texas Department of State Health Services said Friday that the number of cases in the outbreak had…… MORE
Microsoft Shutting Down Skype In May
Microsoft is closing down Skype, the video-calling service it bought for $8.5 billion in 2011 and which had helped spark a transformation in how people communicate online. The tech giant said Friday it will retire Skype in May and shift some of its services to Microsoft Teams, its flagship videoconferencing platform. Skype users will be…… MORE
A Dallas District Court Judge Rules in Favor of the Decriminalization of Marijuana in Dallas
(WBAP/KLIF) – Attorney General Ken Paxton has lost a bid to stop the City of Dallas from enforcing its ban on arresting people for low-level marijuana possession. On Friday, a Dallas County district judge rejected Paxton’s request for a temporary injunction. The state argued that since recreational marijuana is illegal the City of Dallas is…… MORE
Zelensky Diplomacy Meeting Ends in Shouting Match with President Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) — An extraordinary breakdown in diplomacy leaves the world’s peace in limbo. President Donald Trump has cut short talks with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy over a deal for U.S. access to that country’s rare earth minerals after shouting at him in the Oval Office. Trump berated Zelenskyy for being “disrespectful.” The pair had planned…… MORE
No Big New Revelations In Justice Department’s Release Of Jeffrey Epstein Files
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Pam Bondi has released government documents related to wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein, but the first wave of files posted on the Justice Department website have largely been circulating in the public domain for years and didn’t include any new bombshells about the sex trafficking case. The small batch of documents…… MORE
Texas Senate Votes Unanimously, Approving Texas Teacher Pay Hikes Across the Board.
AUSTIN – (WBAP/KLIF) – The Texas Senate has approved across the board pay raises for teachers. Under the Senate plan, passed unanimously, $10,000 pay hikes would be awarded to teachers with five or more years experience, $2500 for those with three years time, and smaller pay hikes for those educators with less than three years…… MORE
Measles Case Confirmed in Rockwall County
(WBAP/KLIF) — The first measles case in Rockwall county has been confirmed. The Rockwall County Commissioners Court issued a statement on social media that a case of measles had been reported. According to the Rockwall County Health Authority, the infected person is an adult living within the county. Meanwhile, in West Texas the measles outbreak…… MORE
