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DFW Ranks 2nd For Guns Taken At TSA Checkpoints

Three Texas airports ranked in the top 10 for the number of guns the Transportation Security Administration discovered at airport checkpoints last year. The agency caught more firearms at checkpoints nationwide in 2019 than ever before.

The national Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington. — Shutterstock

North Texas Celebrates Martin Luther King Day With Parades, Service Projects

The Stomp the Stigma team speaks about their mental health initiative at an event for the North Texas chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. — Courtesy of Stomp the Stigma

Student Group Works To 'Stomp the Stigma' Around Talking About Mental Health

Round Two Of Fight Over Online Voter Registration For Texas Drivers Reaches Federal Court

By Alexa Ura / The Texas Tribune • 2 hours ago

Voting Sign — Eddie Gaspar / The Texas Tribune

The first time former English professor Jarrod Stringer was told he couldn't vote in a Texas election, he sued. A federal appeals court tossed his case on a technicality, but one of the judges ended up admonishing state officials to not let it happen again.

Read The White House Response To The Senate Impeachment Trial Summons

By NPR Staff • 14 hours ago

The White House released its formal response to the summons sent by the Senate last week, a procedural part of the impeachment process ahead of the trial that begins on Tuesday.

"The articles of impeachment submitted by House Democrats are a dangerous attack on the right of the American people to freely choose their president," the White House's response says. "This is a brazen and unlawful attempt to overturn the results of the 2016 election and interfere with the 2020 election."

Recycling Push By Beverage Companies Starts In North Texas

By Associated Press • 20 hours ago

An initiative from three of America’s biggest beverage companies that aims to improve the recycling and processing of plastic bottles is kicking off in North Texas with an investment of more than $3 million.

Why Texans Love H-E-B So Much

By Michael Marks • Jan 18, 2020

From Texas Standard:

Everything is bigger and better in Texas – at least that’s how the saying goes. From food to clothing, and now grocery stores, Texas consumers are proud of Texas brands, and H-E-B is one of them. The data also proves that popularity. H-E-B ranked No. 1 in a recent survey of consumer satisfaction with U.S. grocery stores by consumer data company dunnhumby. H-E-B even beat last year's No. 1, Trader Joe’s.

Offensive Coordinator Kellen Moore Staying With Cowboys, Set To Call Plays For McCarthy

By Associated Press • Jan 17, 2020

Kellen Moore is staying as offensive coordinator for the Dallas Cowboys, and new coach Mike McCarthy says the plan is for Moore to continue calling plays.

Bill To Create An African American National Historic Trail In Texas Awaits Presidential Approval

By Sascha Cordner | The Texas Newsroom • Jan 17, 2020

A bill to study if an Emancipation trail in Southeast Texas should receive a national designation is now headed to President Trump’s desk for his signature.

Mother Files Appeal To Keep Baby On Life Support, Gov. Abbott And Ken Paxton Back Family

By KERA News • Jan 17, 2020

Trinity Lewis, mother of the 11-month-old baby on life support at Cook Children’s Hospital in Fort Worth, has filed an appeal to continue medical support for the child.

Lawyers: ICE Arrests Trans Migrant Woman Month After Release

By Associated Press • Jan 17, 2020

Barbed wire fencing is shown behind a sign in English and Spanish in a recreation yard at a detention center in Tacoma, Washington. — Associated Press

One month after winning her release from immigration detention, a transgender woman from El Salvador was arrested and taken back to the same jail because the U.S. government is appealing the judge’s decision, the woman’s lawyers said Friday.

Judges In Texas Are Inconsistent About Allowing Minors To Get Abortions Without Parental Consent

By Ashley Lopez • Jan 17, 2020

The percentage of minors unable to get a judge's approval for an abortion in Texas has fluctuated in the past two decades, according to a study published Thursday in the American Journal of Public Health.

Dershowitz, Starr On Trump Impeachment Legal Team

By Associated Press • Jan 17, 2020

President Donald Trump's legal team will include former Harvard University law professor Alan Dershowitz and Ken Starr, the former independent counsel who led the Whitewater investigation into President Bill Clinton. — Associated Press

President Donald Trump’s legal team for his upcoming Senate impeachment trial will include former Harvard University law professor Alan Dershowitz and Ken Starr, the independent counsel who investigated President Bill Clinton.

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$11 Billion And Counting: Trump's Border Wall Would Be The World's Most Costly

By John Burnett • 5 hours ago

The pricetag for President Trump's border wall has topped $11 billion — or nearly $20 million a mile — to become the most expensive wall of its kind anywhere in the world.

In a status report last week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which is overseeing wall construction, reported that $11 billion has been identified since Trump took office to construct 576 miles of a new "border wall system."

His Dad Died In A Venezuelan Hospital. What He Saw In The Morgue Still Haunts Him

By editor • 5 hours ago

Editor's note: This story contains graphic descriptions of conditions in a hospital morgue.

In the bowels of a Venezuelan hospital, I took my toughest walk ever.

It was just after dawn on Oct. 17. The corpse of my 81-year-old father lay on a gurney, covered in thick orange sheets. He had just died of a heart attack in his hospital room, on the fifth floor. He was lying in bed next to my stepmother, his companion for the last 20 years. It was four days after doctors had performed a major emergency surgery to repair his large intestine.

'You Need To Act Now': Meet 4 Girls Working To Save The Warming World

By Anya Kamenetz • 5 hours ago

A teenage girl, Greta Thunberg, has become the world-famous face of the climate strike movement. But she's far from alone: Thunberg has helped rally and inspire others — especially girls.

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Here Are 39 Things You Should Do In Texas Before You Die

Texas Independence Day is March 2. (On that day, back in 1836, the Texas Declaration of Independence was adopted at Washington-on-the-Brazos.) So, to celebrate, the KERA News staff figured we’d come up with a list of quintessential Texas experiences – a list of things you should do in the Lone Star State before you kick the bucket.