News

President Donald Trump spoke with Ukraine and Russia's leaders on Wednesday to find a way to end the war between the two nations. He is pushing for negotiations to start immediately and says he and Vladimir Putin plan on visiting each other's countries.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Dallas) speaks about billionaire Elon Musk and misinformation during a hearing on censorship during a House Judiciary hearing.

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Sen. Joan Huffman called on the Texas House to pass a bond reform package once it clears the Senate. The bills would change who sets bond in certain instances and expand the reasons that a bond could be denied.

President Donald Trump and Elon Musk came together in the White House on Tuesday for Trump to sign an executive order concerning the billionaire’s work leading the Department of Government Efficiency andwanting federal agencies to work with him. The Associated Press reviewed a White House fact sheet on the order, which is intended to advance Musk’s work slashing spending with his Department of Government Efficiency. Musk made his first public comments about his work overseeing DOGE. Trump put Musk in charge of the Department of Government Efficiency to help eliminate waste, fraud and abuse in spending and trim the more than 2 million-person federal workforce. Musk said there are some good people in the federal bureaucracy, but that they need to be accountable. He called the bureaucracy an "unelected" fourth branch of government and said the budget deficit must be addressed. He also said he wants to add "common-sense controls" to the federal spending adding taxpayer dollars must be spent wisely and that to cut the waste is not "draconian." "Transparency is what builds trust," he said. He also pushed back against critics who have accused him of mounting a hostile takeover of the government. "The people voted for major government reform, and that’s what the people are going to get," he said. "That’s what democracy is all about." "We're talking about billions of dollars that we've already found. We found fraud and abuse," Trump added. "We have a case in New York where a hotel is paid $59 million…because it's housing migrants, illegal migrants are all illegal, I believe," Trump added. However, according to the New York Times, the "the federal money had been properly allocated by FEMA under President Joseph R. Biden Jr. last year, adding that it was not a disaster relief grant and had not been spent on luxury hotels."

Fort Worth ISD is still months away from making school closure decisions but their trustees are looking at ways to shrink the district.

A McKinney man was sentenced to 30 years in prison for charges related to the death of his one-time girlfriend. Her body was found hidden in a fridge in his home.

A newly obtained arrest warrant reveals robbery as the reason for a shootout in the middle of a Forney neighborhood near Brown Middle School Friday afternoon.

Advocates say dropping the city's parking requirement for developers will create space for more affordable housing in the city. However, others are concerned that it will create chaos on neighborhood streets.

A Fort Worth veteran is harvesting hope with an unconventional form of therapy for his PTSD. "I get my hands in the soil, and it's therapeutic."

Thousands of records connected to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy as a result of President Donald Trump?s executive order to release the files have been uncovered by the FBI.

Dallas County Commissioners moved to resolve a problem that led to long lines during the last election. It was an issue with the electronic devices used to check in voters, verify their precincts, and print the proper ballots.

Five people were injured after a reported explosion at a bus operations center near the El Paso International Airport.