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By David Okamoto, KERA 90.1 commentatorDallas, TX – [Track One: Kacy Crowley's "Church Organ"]When it comes to pop music, Texas, particularly Dallas,…

By David Okamoto, KERA 90.1 commentatorDallas, TX –Track 1: Sorta - "Sweet Little Bay"The biggest Texas CD of 2004 actually was an album that came out in…

Judge creates a path for releasing a redacted affidavit from Mar-a-Lago search. The U.N. secretary general is in Ukraine. Drug cartel violence surges in Mexico, including the border city of Tijuana.

Scott Schools, the highest ranking career official at the Justice Department, will soon leave his position. Schools touched sensitive issues at DOJ including the special counsel probe.

Terrorists are still targeting the U.S., as demonstrated by the news that al-Qaida's affiliate in Yemen plotted to blow up a plane headed to the U.S. What's also clear, NPR's Dina Temple-Raston reports, is just how aggressively the U.S. is targeting the terrorists in Yemen.

On a busy day for higher education news, the Department of Education suggests in a legal filing that no one is certified for the program.

French forces killed the leader of the West African ISIS affiliate in a drone strike in southern Mali in August. French authorities described Adnan Abu Walid al-Sahrawi as "enemy No. 1" in the region.

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.

Russia says it wants the draft resolution to explicitly rule out military action against Syria.

The top local stories this morning from KERA News:About 6,000 students in the Dallas school district will receive active shooter training Monday as part…