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The top local stories this evening from KERA News:Fort Worth City Council members and top city staffers climbed onto a bus Tuesday and took a tour of the…

Gen. Min Aung Hlaing calls for Myanmar to become a "well-disciplined democratic nation" and says the military will continue to play a leading role in governing. The statement comes as opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi attends a military parade.

Sylvia Komatsu is chief content officer for KERA/KXT. She often tells people she “grew up” at KERA, beginning her career at the station in 1979 as a reporter for a nightly news analysis program. Over the next several years, she produced and executive produced documentaries and specials on a wide range of social, political and cultural issues. She now oversees a content division that includes radio, television, educational services and related Web content. She conceived and developed the national Emmy Award-winning series, The U.S.-Mexican War (1846-1848). As executive and series producer, she oversaw this multimedia project, including a companion book, classroom materials and a bilingual website, which received multiple honors. Among her many national public television credits as program executive are Sweet Tornado: Margo Jones and the American Theater, JFK: Breaking the News, Matisse & Picasso, For A Deaf Son, and After Goodbye: An AIDS Story. A native of Fort Worth, Sylvia is a graduate of Harvard University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She and her husband, George, live in Dallas.

Mahmoud Abbas is set to address the United Nations on Wednesday, capping the day by raising the Palestinian flag alongside those of member states. But back home, his leadership is in doubt.

Egypt has shut down a free Facebook service called Free Basics. The government says it's a licensing issue, but critics say the Egyptian government is stifling freedom of expression.

Our usernames and passwords, to all kinds of websites, are for sale on the dark web. Some, like bank account passwords, are obviously valuable. But hackers can extract money from this information in all kinds of creative ways.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken used a meeting at the security council to call out Russia's attacks on Ukraine's agriculture sector, warning that the rest of the world is paying the price.

A lower court decided last year that only Muslims can use the word to describe God. But the government now says the ruling applied only to the Catholic newspaper that brought the case.

The intelligence community views four countries as posing the main security challenges over the next year: China, followed by Russia, Iran and North Korea.

The Scottish National Party has pledged to push for a referendum for independence from the United Kingdom if they win a majority in the Scottish Parliament.