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  • Bacon Tops New Burger King Dessert
    Burger King recently added smoothies and more wraps and salads to its menus. Its latest creation doesn't seem to fit the trend: a bacon sundae. The food chain claims the concoction of vanilla soft serve, fudge, caramel, bacon crumbles — oh, and a strip of bacon — weighs in at a whopping 510 calories.
  • Cell Phone Ring Tones Top the Charts
    Downloading popular songs to use as personal cell phone ring tones has turned into a $3 billion global industry. A growing revenue stream for songwriters and publishers, ring tones are now outselling digital downloads of music. NPR's Michele Norris talks to Geoff Mayfield, the director of charts for Billboard Magazine, which has just launched a "Hot Ringtones" chart.
  • Tenet to Give Up CIA's Top Post
    CIA Director George Tenet resigns, effective in July. The move, announced by President Bush on the White House's South Lawn, comes after Tenet faced harsh criticism over intelligence failures related to Iraq and the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The president praised Tenet's leadership and work in seven years at the CIA. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly reports.
  • Housing Crisis, Economy Top Issues for Candidates
    Presidential candidates are weighing in on how to address the subprime mortgage crisis. Hillary Clinton is calling for a freeze on adjustable mortgage rates. Barack Obama wants to eliminate predatory lending. And Mitt Romney wants the FHA to help more homeowners. But that's just one of the economic issues addressed by the candidates.
  • Big Dogs Top Underdogs in NCAA Tournament
    The teams the experts most expected to advance survive three rounds of the NCAA men's basketball tournament. It's rare for four No. 1 seeds to be alive so deep into the tournament. But Florida, Kansas, Ohio State and North Carolina play on.
  • Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey, who led the fourth largest police department in the nation, recently announced he would be retiring from the post.
    Philadelphia's Retiring Top Cop: 'I've Never Pretended To Be Perfect'
    Philadelphia's Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey is retiring at the end of the year. Under his watch, the murder and violent crime rates are lower than they've been in decades.
  • From the kick-off the 2016 race to boos on the stage at the Republican National Convention, Texas had a place at every moment of this unprecedented campaign.
    The Top Five Texas Moments of This Year's Election
    From Texas Standard: We're just one day away from putting the 2016 election in the record books – so we thought we'd take a few minutes to highlight the...
  • Top Stories: Two Dallas Officers, Civilian Shot; Supreme Court Reviews Texas Redistricting
    The top local stories this evening from KERA News:The Dallas Police Department says two police officers were shot late this afternoon in North Dallas, and…
  • Top Stories: Federal Judges Uphold Majority Of SB4 Law; Creating A Community Bail Fund
    The top local stories this evening from KERA News:A federal appeals court has upheld the bulk of a law targeting so-called "sanctuary cities" that is…
  • Top Stories: DMA Curator Resigns; Renowned North Texas Ballet Teacher Tanju Tuzer Dies
    The top local stories the evening from KERA News. A top curator at the Dallas Museum of Art resigned abruptly over the weekend, citing what he called…
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