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The Islamic School of Irving is being sued for over $1 million by a female claiming she was brutally raped by a 14-year-old male and school officials failed to call police. According to the Dallas County petition, Doe and her mother were working for a contractor hired to clean the school on the evening of Sept. 27, 2024. The school shares a campus with a mosque and is connected to it by doors that the lawsuit says should have been locked after hours. Doe said she saw a 14-year-old boy, identified only as OEA, loitering in a school hallway during...

Venezuela's new petroleum minister sees her South American home not as a dilapidated former oil giant, but as an emerging energy economy ripe for U.S. and foreign investments in new oil and gas exploration, both onshore and offshore. Paula Henao, who took over as the hydrocarbons minister in March after the forced U.S. removal of former leader Nicolás Maduro, told an overflowing Houston energy audience on Wednesday that Venezuela is much more than just its famed heavy-grade crude oil. There are more than 916 exploration opportunities awaiting foreign investment, she said, including natural gas and other untapped oil basins. She...

Morgan Stanley has picked Dallas for a major expansion of its banking empire outside New York City — accelerating Wall Street’s migration to Texas following the election of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, The Post has learned. The financial giant plans to relocate up to 4,800 jobs to the state by 2031, passing over Alpharetta, Georgia, according to municipal filings reviewed by The Post. The firm will anchor a new $1.3 billion, 709,000-square-foot skyscraper in the fast-growing Texas metropolis known to financiers as “Y’all Street”. The Wall Street behemoth led by CEO Ted Pick — which began exploring options outside the Big...

DFW said it will not proceed with the proposed ablution washing stations in Terminal D after accelerating its review

The Dallas-Fort Worth Airport has reportedly scrapped plans to install Islamic footwashing stations, Fox News reported. The news follows Texas Gov. Greg Abbott directing a review of state grants that operate airports in Texas after Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport reportedly planned to build ablution facilities for Islamic washing rituals. Abbott posted on X. “Government-owned airports cannot favor one religion over all others. DFW plans to install Islamic wudu washing facilities are illegal. I've directed a review of all state grants to both airports for possible revocation, and referred DFW & IAH to USDOT for investigation.” Abbott said he referred DFW...

Texas Senate candidate James Talarico (D) received a harsh reception from an attendee at his town hall in Houston on Sunday. Video from the event, during which Talarico took questions for more than 90 minutes, captured by the Austin American-Statesman’s Faith Bugenhagen, shows a Black woman yelling, “So you stay here, you answer our questions or you suffer the consequences.” Other attendees clapped in support of the woman’s remarks, while one man said, “Say it with your chest.” When Talarico told the woman he appreciated her for traveling to attend the town hall, she replied, “I did it for my...

Mitsubishi Corp. finalized a $7.5 billion acquisition of Dallas-based Aethon Energy Management’s Haynesville Shale assets this week, as another Japanese conglomerate moved to secure natural gas from northwest Louisiana for its LNG supply chain. Tokyo-based Mitsubishi is the latest Japanese multinational energy company to buy production in north Louisiana following JERA’s February close on a $1.5 billion purchase of the South Mansfield gas field and supporting infrastructure from Williams and GeoSouthern Energy affiliates, both U.S.-based companies. Taken together, Japanese multinationals will produce an estimated 4.5 billion cubic feet per day or about 30%-35% of the Haynesville region’s total natural gas...

Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Wednesday that authorities charged eight alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua with the murder and kidnapping of a Dallas family and a separate murder in Chicago. On August 24, 2024, four alleged TdA members broke into the home of a Dallas resident to bind his wrists and feet and demand ransom money. They also kidnapped his 13-year-old daughter and 12-year-old nephew. When the father refused to pay, the TdA members drove him to a bridge and told him to jump. When he refused and attempted to flee, they recaptured him...

Two City of Fort Worth employees faced criticism after posting comments about Charlie Kirk following his assassination. As previously reported by The Dallas Express, Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, was assassinated during a Q&A at Utah Valley University on September 10. The event was the first stop of the group’s “American Comeback Tour.” Kristina Ashton, a senior administrative services manager with the Fort Worth Park & Recreation Department, criticized Kirk in a Facebook post, alleging that during a past encounter he had made remarks about women. “Charlie Kirk told my daughter and me that we shouldn’t be able...

Authorities are now investigating whether Johnson was directed by the militant groups he "liked" on social media — including the African American Defense League, the Black Riders Liberation Party, the Huey P. Newton Gun Club and the New Black Panther Party — or merely emboldened by them. "I think it's safe to say we'll leave no stone unturned," Dallas police Deputy Chief Scott Walton said. It's unclear if Johnson was merely a follower or a more active participant of those groups. Babu Omowale, co-founder of the Huey P. Newton Gun Club, a black militia that performs armed community patrols in...

I now understand the American dream. I came to the World Cup because I was offered a last minute ticket to watch England play Croatia in Dallas and I started documenting my journey. The content went viral on social media. So much so, the President of the United States saw it himself. I was invited to attend the grand opening of the great American state fair for freedom 250 and halfway through Donald Trumps speech, I was told to come and wait back stage for a photograph. This sort of thing could only happen in America. As an Englishman I...

DALLAS - Texas Republican Senate candidate Ken Paxton said that Dallas will host his party's midterm convention later this year. What we know: Paxton said Dallas will host the GOP midterm in September during a tele-town hall on Tuesday. Paxton said he anticipates Trump coming to the midterm to help him campaign in his Senate race with Democrat James Talarico. What we don't know: We don't know the dates that the midterm convention would be, or what venue would host it. The backstory: Sources confirmed in March that the Republican Party is exploring a national convention for the midterm elections,...

Airport Arrest Turns Up Nuclear Info The Associated Press Thursday, November 16, 2006; 12:54 PM DETROIT -- A man was arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after officials say they found him carrying nearly $79,000 in cash and a laptop computer containing information about nuclear materials and cyanide. Sisayehiticha Dinssa, an unemployed U.S. citizen, was arrested Tuesday after a dog caught the scent of narcotics on cash he was carrying, according to an affidavit filed in court. When agents asked him if he had any cash to declare, he said he had $18,000, authorities said. But when agents checked his luggage,...

Former Dallas City Council candidate Davante Peters calls to dig up Austin Metcalf’s grave, stab him again, and free Karmelo Anthony warning language on link.

Jake Lang, a far-right influencer who was criminally charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection but was later pardoned by President Trump, was arrested in Dallas, Texas, on a state charge of making terroristic threats. According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, 31-year-old Lang was arrested Tuesday after getting off a flight in Dallas on one third-degree felony count of making a terroristic threat. He was booked into the Dallas County Jail. The charge comes after photos and videos showed Lang outside the Collin County courthouse several times this past week during the murder trial for...

A Dangerous Foreign Islamist Network Today Operates Openly in Educational Institutions Across Texas, Propelled by Regime-Aligned Activist Groups and Wealthy Khomeinist Mosques June 3, 2026. Sam Westrop. Texas Public Policy Foundation. Children at the Islamic Education Center in Houston perform a song pledging allegiance to Iran’s Supreme Leader. Photo: IEC Houston A Texas Islamist network working to radicalize Shia Muslim students at educational institutions across the state, including Texas public universities, is made up of agents and proxies for the murderous Iranian regime. In March, the Iranian regime and its proxies across the world organized “Al-Quds Day,” a global annual...

3,478,009 views Dec 8, 2024 The Shocking Secrets Behind JFK's Life and Assassination! | JFK Documentaries| Documentary Central I Shot JFK: The Shocking Truth is the milestone documentary about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, by Dutch producer Willem Jan Dankbaar, with testimony from the "man on the grassy knoll" himself, James E. Files. At first, reluctant to talk, Files eventually confessed, implicating organized crime members, Charles Nicoletti, Johnny Roselli, Sam Giancana and the CIA, as well as his own role in the crime of the century. Other links of interest: Confession of an Assassin, the first 1994 prison...

A natural gas explosion destroyed a residential building in the Oak Cliff area of Dallas, injuring at least four people on Thursday afternoon, Dallas-Fire Rescue confirms. Sources tell NBC 5 that 23 people lived in the building and officials said 12 residents have been accounted for. DFR told NBC 5 they were called to a large 3-alarm fire triggered by a gas explosion at a residential building located in the 400 block of E. 9th Street shortly before 1 p.m. At about 2:20 p.m., the fire was increased to four alarms, and by 3:23 p.m., to five alarms. NBC 5...

As election officials across the country brace for the possibility of federal agents descending on polling sites in November, a nationwide coalition of Democratic district attorneys has vowed to prosecute any federal agent suspected of intimidating voters. The announcement, first reported by Politico, comes shortly after President Donald Trump refused to rule out sending U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to election sites during the midterms. “I’d do anything necessary to make sure we have honest elections,” Trump told reporters earlier this month. The coalition includes prosecutors from Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Dallas and Northern Virginia, among other jurisdictions. “We’re ready to...

At the direction of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board has ordered the Texas American Muslim University at Dallas (TexAM) to halt its operations, stating that the organization is not a recognized university and thus “prohibited by law from granting or offering to grant degrees.” But there are other reasons for state agencies to be concerned: TexAM directors maintain ties to domestic radicals and foreign extremists. One of its founders is an overt supporter of foreign terror operatives, while seemingly accused of stalking and distributing “revenge porn” against a former mistress. Terror-Aligned Extremism Despite four different...