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The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders are reportedly receiving a 400% pay raise for the upcoming season, as revealed in their Netflix series "America's Sweethearts." This "life-changing" increase comes after years of advocacy for higher compensation, so the cheerleaders didn't need to work two jobs. Veterans are expected to earn around $75 per hour, significantly up from the previous $15 per hour.

DALLAS, Texas – The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Texas joined the North Texas Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and the FBI Dallas’s North Texas Child Exploitation Task Force to announce the conclusion of Operation Soteria Shield, a month-long collaborative enforcement effort conducted in April 2025 aimed at rescuing children from online sexual exploitation and bringing perpetrators to justice. This operation was run in conjunction with the National Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and was jointly managed by the FBI Dallas Division, Dallas Police Department, Plano Police Department, Wylie Police Department, and Garland Police Department

Member of the U.S. military joined an anti-ICE protest in Dallas and said, "We won’t be pawns in stripping away constitutional rights." https://x.com/Breaking911/status/1932648094975299925

Protesters in two of Texas' largest cities clashed with police on Monday night to show solidarity with demonstrations in Los Angeles against President Donald Trump's sweeping deportation raids. As Trump mobilized 700 Marines to deal with the mayhem in LA, tensions quickly escalated in Dallas and Austin at anti-Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) rallies. Dallas police began arresting individuals just before 9pm after they pleaded with protestors to stay off the Margret Hunt Hill Bridge, a busy thoroughfare into downtown filled with cars zooming by. As darkness fell on the city, a line of cops blocked the advance of the protestors...

A major pro-Israel conference slated to begin in four days in Dallas that had 1,000 committed attendees postponed the event “indefinitely,” citing “escalating terror threats.” The decision came after organizers had already changed venues for the Israel Summit, which draws major Christian and Jewish pro-Israel speakers, because of security concerns. It was set to take place from June 9-11. “This is America in 2025. A pro-Israel conference scheduled for Dallas this week, where I was scheduled to speak, which sold over 1,000 tickets, was forced to cancel because of threats from violent Jihadists,” stated David Friedman, a former U.S. ambassador...

The FBI conducted multiple raids across Dallas and Collin counties as part of a federal investigation into a visa fraud and money laundering scheme on Thursday, May 22, sources told WFAA. Attorney D. Robert Jones, is alleged to have collaborated with a network of individuals to unlawfully obtain U.S. visas for Pakistani nationals through fraudulent means. The operation reportedly involved the creation of shell companies to funnel illicit funds and facilitating the issuance of visas under false pretenses. The scheme is believed to have been active for several years. Sources told WFAA that federal agents, in coordination with U.S. Immigration...

As Shilo Sanders' federal bankruptcy case heats up, the judge made a key ruling in the case this week. Bankruptcy Judge Michael E. Romero granted a request for subpoenas, saying that the court found “good cause” for them before trial. This will allow Sanders' creditor, John Darjean, a former security guard at Shilo’s former high school in Dallas, the ability to obtain records from third-party sources related to an incident between him and Sanders in 2015. Shilo was 15 years old when the incident with Darjean occurred. Sanders, who is now 25, was signed by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers with...

Basketball fans clapped back at the NBA for allegedly “rigging” the Draft Lottery after the Dallas Mavericks won the Cooper Flagg sweepstakes. After shockingly losing to Houston in the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament, Flagg announced that he’d be entering his name in the 2025 NBA Draft. The Naismith Player of the Year is considered the consensus first overall pick, with Jayson Tatum, Colin Cowherd and Charles Barkley all expressing confidence that he will excel at the next level. The Mavericks, meanwhile, endured a brutal 2024-25 campaign highlighted by the three-team blockbuster trade that sent Luka Doncic to the...

GARLAND, Texas (AP) — Investigators are looking into whether a Texas man was inspired by foreign terrorists when he killed a Lyft driver in a Dallas suburb and later opened fire in the police station of another suburb where officers fatally shot him. Police said Imran Ali Rasheed ordered a Lyft in his home city of Garland Sunday then fatally shot the driver, Isabella Lewis. Her stolen car was found a short time later outside the police station in the neighboring community of Plano, where Rasheed began shooting in the lobby before being shot by officers, police chiefs in both...

Just last month, CAIR’s Dallas-Fort-Worth chapter held an event called "In Pursuit of Freedom" at the East Plano Islamic Center in Plano, Texas, calling for Siddiqui’s release, claiming she had been "kidnapped, ripped apart from her children, shot at, renditioned to the U.S., and is currently serving an 86-year prison sentence for a crime she did not commit." On Nov. 18, the CAIR chapter held an online fundraiser for Siddiqui’s defense team. Days earlier, multiple Muslim advocacy groups, including CAIR, American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), the Islamic Circle of North America Council for Social Justice (ICNA-CSJ), and the Muslim American...

The Justice Department on Friday opened an investigation into the planned Sharia City near Dallas, Senator Cornyn said. Last month Texas Governor Greg Abbott launched a campaign against a planned Islamic “mega-city” outside Dallas. The East Plano Islamic Center, via its affiliate Community Capitol Partners, is seeking to construct a 1,000-home settlement around 40 minutes from Dallas. The “Sharia City” would come complete with a mega mosque, Sharia adherent Muslim schools, community college, and sporting facilities. KHOU reported: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has opened an investigation into EPIC City, a Muslim-centric development proposed in Collin County, following calls...

Relatives of Ashlee Long, 28, gasped in the Dallas courtroom on Wednesday as the prosecution played the sickening video of her final moments, WFAA reports. Long was killed while her boyfriend, William Kistler, was wounded, after prosecutors say Kendrick Finch, 34, shot them both during horrifying scenes in Downtown Dallas on April 5.

Megachurch founder Bishop T.D. Jakes announced on Sunday that he will step down as pastor of his 30,000-member Dallas-based church, The Potter’s House, and his daughter and son-in-law will assume the helm. For almost 50 years, Jakes, who will turn 68 in June, has served the local and global community as a pastor, global faith leader, and author. According to a statement on the church’s website, senior pastoral duties for pastors Touré Roberts, 51, and Sarah Jakes Roberts, 36, . Jakes’ announcement and presentation of couple to the congregation met with applause and a long, standing ovation. While choking back...

Active shooter reported at Wilmer-Hutchins High School in Dallas, Texas. Massive police and fire presence.

A woman stripped naked and ran through Dallas Fort Worth International (DFW) Airport squirting people with her water bottle while screaming about being a polyglot and then destroying airport equipment. Unfortunately, we lack context, but a video shows a naked woman prancing about a terminal concourse squiring others with a water bottle. She screams, “I speak all languages, mother….” while evading the grasp of the security guard (who understandably did not even want to touch her). A good samaritan offered her a coat in an attempt to cover her modesty, but she ran in the opposite direction and proceeded to...

DALLAS, Texas — With signs raised high and voices echoing through Dealey Plaza, hundreds gathered in downtown Dallas on Saturday as part of a nationwide protest movement known as “Hands Off.” Demonstrators invoked their First Amendment rights, using megaphones and chants to speak out against a wide range of policies under the Trump administration, ranging from federal job cuts and immigration enforcement to healthcare changes and rising tariffs

This week marks the 43rd anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination by a pro-Castro Marxist moonbat in Dallas, Tex. Well, that’s if you believe little things like photographs, eyewitnesses, spousal testimony, ballistics, fingerprints, personal history, the suspect’s pattern of assassination attempts, motive, opportunity, and an incriminating flight complete with cop killing. For the rest of America, especially the tinfoil hat crowd, this week is the 43rd anniversary of JFK being killed by Castro, right-wing extremists opposed to Castro, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, the mafia, the Soviets, the Elks’ Lodge, magic bullets, the second gunman, the third gunman, the...

A transgender teacher in Texas resigned on Monday, less than a week after a state lawmaker called for her to be fired over a social media video in which she talks about feeling supported by her students. “I am heartbroken,” said Rosie Sandri, who taught sophomore English at Red Oak High School, just south of the Dallas metro area, for three years. She said she has wanted to be a teacher since she was 5 years old. “When I signed that resignation, it felt like my dream was being taken away from me.

Dallas Mavericks minority owner Mark Cuban is facing calls from his own former employees to flee the Texas city following recent controversy. The NBA organization recently descended into a meltdown when the team traded away its biggest star, Luka Doncic, to the Los Angeles Lakers. And despite selling his majority stake in the Mavericks in 2023, Cuban, who has been outspoken critic of Donald Trump's agenda in Washington DC, has found himself in the firing line. Last week, a former Mavericks event manager, Gavin Mulloy, took aim at the billionaire on Facebook, claiming that he 'should be run out of...

Mark Cuban has been brutally honest about his displeasure with the Dallas Mavericks since he sold his majority share to the Adelson family in December 2023. He thought he would still be in charge of basketball operations, but it wasn't allowed to be in the contract when he sold the team, and the Adelsons decided to hand the reins to Nico Harrison. Cuban voiced his frustrations in a recent Facebook comment about his role with the team, but he also revealed that owning the Mavericks wasn't exactly a fruitful endeavor. "You didn't say a word when [your bonus] showed up...