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UPDATED 10:05 p.m. Central—The historic sanctuary of First Baptist Church of Dallas, the church led by Pastor Robert Jeffress, caught fire on Friday night. The cause remains unknown, though the fire comes less than one week after an attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, of whom Jeffress has long been an impassioned supporter.“Dallas Fire-Rescue is currently battling a two-alarm fire in a building located at 1717 San Jacinto Street,” Chief Robert Borse told The Daily Signal. “The initial call was received at 6:05 p.m., and crews arrived on scene at 6:09 p.m.”“The fire has been knocked down and contained,”...

Dallas Fire Rescue (DFR) responded to a three-alarm fire just after 6 p.m. at the First Baptist Dallas Church at 1707 San Jacinto St. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlCSU1HLQIY

DALLAS — "Aim better." Those two words have put a sergeant with the Dallas Police Department on administrative leave pending an internal investigation, DPD sources tell WFAA. A screenshot of the post shared with WFAA shows the social media post made by Sgt. Arturo Martinez. This comes in the wake of former president Donald Trump being the target of an assassination attempt during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennslyvania. The next day, the FBI identified the shooter as Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. The department said it received an internal complaint on July 13 "regarding a member...

Alex Stein exposing the creepy "Drag Your Kid To Pride" event from June 2022.

Because of course there’s this kind of drama in Big D … Dallas Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy is reportedly not happy with the organization’s hierarchy, in particular with owner Jerry Jones for not respecting his leadership. According to a report from Go Long’s Tyler Dunne: “He’s doing it the best he can,” said a former Dallas personnel member recently. “Some of the people I’ve talked to have said that he’s getting fed up with it a little bit. It’s hard. I feel bad for [quarterback] Dak [Prescott]. I think Dak’s a really good quarterback who is capable of taking...

A Dallas ISD employee headlined an anti-bullying event that discussed “religious or faith-based LGBTQIA+ discrimination,” according to documents obtained in an open records request by The Dallas Express.

BOSTON -- The Boston Celtics again stand alone among NBA champions. Jayson Tatum had 31 points, 11 assists and eight rebounds as the Celtics topped the Dallas Mavericks 106-88 on Monday night to win the franchise’s 18th championship, breaking a tie with the Los Angeles Lakers for the most in league history. Boston earned its latest title on the 16th anniversary of hoisting its last Larry O’Brien Trophy in 2008. It marks the 13th championship won this century by one of the city’s Big 4 professional sports franchises. Jaylen Brown added 21 points and was voted the NBA Finals MVP....

DALLAS - Four people were injured in a shooting in Deep Ellum on Sunday morning. Dallas police said patrol officers heard shots near Elm and N. Crowdus streets around 3 a.m. Four victims, ages 17, 26, 28, and 35, were taken to the hospital. The 17-year-old was last listed in critical condition. The other three are expected to arrive.

A chaotic scene unfolded around Dallas early Tuesday morning as a line of intense storms blasted the city before sunrise, upending travel before the morning commute following the extended Memorial Day weekend. Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins issued a disaster declaration Tuesday morning in the wake of the severe storms. A 77-mph wind gust was clocked at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport at 5:47 a.m., CDT, contributing to more than 600 flight delays and 270 cancellations at the airport, according to FlightAware. The hurricane-force wind gusts caused havoc across the area, snapping tree limbs and bringing down power lines. Nearly 500,000...

A former United Methodist Church pastor who was defrocked about 20 years ago for being in a same-sex romantic relationship has been reinstated by the mainline Protestant denomination. The UMC Eastern Pennsylvania Annual Conference voted overwhelmingly during a closed session of around 200 clergy on Tuesday evening to readmit Beth Stroud. Bishop John Schol, head of both the Eastern Pennsylvania and Greater New Jersey annual conferences, said he was “deeply grateful for the discernment of the clergy” and “grateful that the church has opened up to LGBTQ persons.” “I couldn’t be prouder as your bishop, and you couldn’t have given...

"So we are going to drop ‘A Crockett Clapback Collection,’" she wrote in the caption. "This collection will feature various swag that includes random things I’ve said. The money will go to ensuring that we have a Democratic House! Give me a little time to really get the swag online etc., but B6 will drop first."

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump accepted the endorsement of the National Rifle Association at the NRA Leadership Forum in Dallas on Saturday afternoon. "It's a true honor to be here today to receive the endorsement of the proud American patriots at the NRA," Trump told the forum in a speech that aired live and in its entirety on Newsmax and the Newsmax2 streaming platform. "These are great patriots. These are great people, and we're going to do things like nobody can believe. "We're going to win this election at levels that nobody's ever seen before. Thank you very much...

Hello, I'm planning a trip to Dallas in the next couple of weeks. I know nothing about Dallas so I am relying on your collective experience to help me out. I plan on making a trip to Dealy Plaza and visit the 6th Floor Museum. Not much of an itinerary but that is what I got. I plan on being there on a weekday afternoon, spend one full day and fly out the next day. Looks like Dallas Fort Worth Airport will be my starting point. Any suggestions on motel/hotel places to stay-no AirBNB, good tourist places to visit during...

Major DEI fail. Who vetted this agent? As previously reported, an armed Secret Service agent assigned to Kamala Harris got into a physical fight with other agents at Joint Base Andrews on Monday morning. According to reports, the problem agent, identified as Michelle Herczeg, began acting aggressively, speaking gibberish and shouting incoherently at other agents while they were near the lounge at JBA. Herczeg reportedly threw menstrual pads at another agent before getting into a brawl a JBA. RealClearPolitics reported that Herczeg grabbed a male agent’s personal cell phone and began deleting apps on it before she completely melted down....

Imagine this: You head to Florida to look after a sick family member, only to come back and find squatters have broken into your house, sold all your belongings, and now, unbelievably, are legally considered “tenants.” So now you’re stuck shelling out for a lawyer to get them out. It sounds like a wild story, doesn’t it? But, shockingly, this is the reality for a woman from Texas who left her home to care for her sick mother. The New York Post: Squatters turned a Texas woman’s home into a “drug den” and sold her possessions at a yard sale...

CV NEWS FEED // Republican Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson explained that his Christian faith played a role in his decision to switch his party registration from Democratic to Republican. “It’s way more complicated than ‘there’s this one thing that happened,’ and I just said I’m out of here,” Johnson told Sen. Ted Cruz, R-TX, and co-host Ben Ferguson during an episode of the “Verdict” podcast that aired Monday. “It’s an evolution for me, and just kind of coming to accept who I have always been and why I’ve struggled as a Democrat the whole time.” Johnson served in the Texas...

Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson gave new details during an interview this week about his decision to switch from the Democrat Party to the Republican Party. Johnson made the remarks during an interview on Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) “Verdict” podcast with co-host Ben Ferguson. Johnson highlighted his background growing up poor to working class parents and being raised in a family where faith was central to their everyday lives. He said that while his family was not political, they had a very strong sense of right and wrong and put a priority on treating others well, working hard, and following the...

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Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban made headlines early this month when he sought to school X chief Elon Musk on the wonders of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies and insisted that it is not really race-based hiring. But the video of the woman he put in place to guide his DEI policies shows she did, indeed, use DEI policies to hire strictly based on race and gender to the exclusion of white males. Cuban engaged with Musk in a series of X posts on Jan. 4, where he defended DEI hiring policies and said there is “zero” evidence that...