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A Texas city scrapped a “Muslim only” holiday event hosted by an Islamic group at a taxpayer-funded waterpark hours after Gov. Greg Abbott threatened to pull state funding if it went forward. Grand Prairie city officials axed the upcoming Eid event at Epic Indoor Park Wednesday night, shortly after the Republican warned Mayor Ron Jensen that the state would yank $530,000 in public safety grants if the gathering — initially advertised as “exclusively reserved for Muslims” — wasn’t shut down. “After further review and in the best interest of the City of Grand Prairie, the June 1 Eid event at...

A city-owned water park in Dallas, Texas, received heavy backlash for advertising a “Muslims only” day at the facility and was pressured into backing down after several high-profile figures questioned the move on social media. The private event, set for June 1, would have closed Epic Waters Indoor Waterpark to non-Muslims, which raises legal questions, considering that it gets public funding through a voter-approved sales tax, according to the Dallas Express. The 80,000-square-foot park, which has received rave reviews over the past few years, was set to host the “3rd Annual DFW Epic Eid” organized by the East Plano Islamic...

The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board has ordered a Richardson-based institution calling itself “Texas American Muslim University at Dallas” to immediately cease operations, saying it has been illegally offering higher education programs in Texas without state authorization. The “TexAM University at Dallas” or “Texas American Muslim University” (TexAM) has been marketing itself as a new Islamic-centered university offering STEM degree programs combined with mandatory Islamic studies coursework. According to a letter sent by the coordinating board, TexAM has never received the required Certificate of Authority from the state to operate or grant degrees in Texas under Chapter 61 of the...

Townhall.com - Leading conservative site covering news, politics, and culture with analysis and commentary. A Federal Court Just Handed Gov. Greg Abbott a Win in His Fight Against CAIR. A Federal Court Just Handed Gov. Greg Abbott a Win in His Fight Against CAIR. Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced late last year that he was designating the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as foreign terrorist groups. Such a move would ban them from "buying or acquiring land in Texas and authorizes the Attorney General to sue to shut them down," Abbott said at the time. Abbott...

It's a list no one wants to be on, and it's growing in a North Texas city. Authorities believe more than 80 people since February have had their mail, which included checks, stolen from a post office in Plano. The vast majority of the thefts have happened at one postal location, and both victims and authorities are concerned that the crime could be an inside job involving postal employees. The U.S. Post Office on W. Parker Road is a place Jim Frankenfield no longer feels comfortable even approaching. "I stopped using it, don't even go near it," he said. Patty...

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- Montgomery County authorities are crediting the advancements in DNA technology for helping solve the haunting case of Deanna Ogg, a 16-year-old girl who was found sexually assaulted and murdered in a wooded area near Old Houston Road in 1986. The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office confirmed that 60-year-old Bobby Taylor Sr. was arrested and charged with capital murder and is being held at Montgomery County Jail. In a press conference on Wednesday, authorities said Taylor Sr. had been identified as the suspect in the case after detectives began re-examining evidence. Through that investigation, a DNA lab...

Tucker Carlson just lobbed a rhetorical grenade at Sen. Ted Cruz, telling a New York Times podcast audience that the Texas Republican is "more morally repulsive" than white-nationalist influencer Nick Fuentes. The comments, which surfaced over the weekend, instantly recharged old arguments inside the GOP over Israel, the Iran war and who poses the bigger danger to the party’s future. Cruz wasted little time firing back on social media, turning what started as a policy beef into an unmistakably personal feud. NYT interview: Carlson singles out Cruz On The New York Times podcast "The Interview," host Lulu Garcia-Navarro put Carlson...

They just never lear. The head of a Texas Islamic group that rented out a taxpayer-funded waterpark for an event that was advertised as “Muslim only” runs a childhood education center with the exact same unfortunate ‘Learing Center’ typo first seen at an infamous daycare in Minneapolis. The “Excellence Early Learing Center,” as its misspelled website header reads — located in the Fort Worth suburb of Hurst — offers a variety of programs for youngsters from infants to pre-K, and promises to provide children with “the loving, personal care that they need to thrive and feel confident.”

Gov. Greg Abbott’s office notified Grand Prairie Mayor Ron Jensen to cancel the “DFW Epic Eid Celebration,” a Muslim event to be held at the city-owned Epic Waters Indoor Water Park.The Public Safety Office (PSO) sent the letter to Jensen on Wednesday regarding the event celebrating the major Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. ...“Epic Waters is owned by the City and managed by a third-party operator,” the City of Grand Prairie said in a Tuesday statement. “Like other City-owned facilities, it is available for rental by individuals and organizations.”The city said they have been in contact with the Epic Waters...

FedEx driver Tanner Horner has been sentenced to death for the murder of 7-year-old Athena Strand by a Texas Jury following a gut-wrenching trial that detailed his psychotic behavior during the killing. The confessed killer learned his sentence at a court in Fort Worth, Texas, some 40 miles southeast of where Strand’s naked body was dumped in a creek on Nov. 30, 2022. Jurors deliberated for about three hours after arguments rested Tuesday. Horner appeared utterly unmoved by the verdict – with not a flicker of emotion on his face as the judge said he’d die by lethal injection “before...

ALLAS (AP) — A former FedEx driver was sentenced to death on Tuesday after he pleaded guilty to killing a 7-year-old girl he took from her Texas home while delivering a Christmas gift.Jurors in a Fort Worth courtroom decided on Tanner Horner’s punishment after hearing about a month of testimony and evidence that included audio of Athena Strand’s last moments from inside his delivery van. Horner, 34, pleaded guilty to capital murder last month in the 2022 killing just as his trial began. Athena’s body was found two days after she was reported missing from her home in the rural...

Roughly one week after the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals handed Texas a win on its border security law, SB 4, the law is facing a second legal challenge. The American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Texas, and the Texas Civil Rights Project filed a class-action lawsuit on Monday seeking a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to block the law from going into effect. The law, which makes illegal entry into Texas a state crime, is set to go into effect May 15. It gives Texas law enforcement the authority to return illegal foreign nationals to a port...

A New Braunfels, Texas, woman arrested in January for setting fire to a county Republican Party’s headquarters was charged with terrorism, according to local media. Grace Carol Brown was arrested Jan. 22 by the New Braunfels Police Department on suspicion of arson and burglary after employees at the Comal County Republican Party headquarters discovered the building had been broken into and a small fire had been set on Jan. 14, according to a Jan. 23 release. A Comal County grand jury added the terrorism charge on April 15, the San Antonio News-Express reported. “Sadly, this incident is not isolated,” Texas...

GARLAND, Texas - Garland police say a driver shot a man who was trying to carjack him in a parking lot. The incident was captured on surveillance. Police say the man tried to steal several vehicles by force yesterday afternoon, before trying this one near Highway 66 and Dairy Road. What we know: A majority of the family members were inside the car when a carjacker tried to steal it. The carjacker was shot and killed by the father during a struggle captured on video. Surveillance video shows a man attacking and trying to carjack a family of eight in...

I’m not a lawyer, and I’ve never played one on TV, so I won’t opine on the legal aspects of this story. However, I can give you my layman’s view, which is that this certainly smells rotten. To wit, a taxpayer-funded water park is holding a big party on June 1, and they’re going to have food, entertainment, and just good ole American fun. The catch: if you’re not Muslim, you’re not invited. No really. Paging Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon! 🚨ISLAMIFICATION ALERT🚨Grand Prairie, TX has an indoor water park called Epic Waters (no relation...

Republican South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace named several lawmakers Monday who she claims used a congressional “slush fund” to cover up alleged sex scandals. Mace said she uncovered 1,000 pages of documents detailing how certain lawmakers allegedly evaded consequences for sexual scandals, according to a Monday post on X. Mace originally subpoenaed the House Oversight Committee in March in light of a string of sexual scandals that resulted in two resignations from Congress. (RELATED: REPORT: Two GOP Lawmakers Go Head-To-Head In Push To Expel One Another) Notably, Mace said that these documents are only from the last 22 years, claiming...

A taxpayer-funded Texas waterpark has sparked backlash by organizing a Muslim-only day to celebrate Eid. Epic Waters in Grand Prairie, Texas drew outrage this week as it released fliers for the June 1 event, which will demand a 'modest dress code' and serve only Halal-slaughtered meat.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic nominee for vice president last cycle, opted to fly to Maine to stump for Graham Platner, an oyster farmer who is running for Senate and who has a Nazi tattoo. Several members of Congress responded. “Don’t forget to ask him about his Nazi tattoo,” stated Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas). “Can you let him know there’s ways to remove the Nazi tattoos from his chest?” asked Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.). “In case it wasn’t clear before why Kamala Harris selected Tim Walz over Josh Shapiro. This is who they are,” the Republican Jewish Coalition stated....

A quiet legal ruling in Texas has opened the door to a much louder national conversation. When Amy Meachum ordered the state to allow construction of a 400-acre Muslim community—complete with homes, a mosque, schools, and businesses—it wasn’t just a zoning decision. It was a window into a deeper reality: Islam is growing in the United States, and with that growth comes both opportunity and tension that Americans can no longer ignore. The development, formerly known as Epic City and now called “The Meadow,” represents a vision of communal life shaped around Islamic faith and culture. Backed by developers and...

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) on Friday warned that the growing national debt is “a ticking time bomb” and he called on his fellow lawmakers to do “much more.” The U.S. national debt crossed 100 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) at the end of the first quarter, the first time the debt crossed that line since 1946. The debt surpassed $39 trillion in March, a mere five months after it reached $38 trillion. Roy told Fox Business’s Cheryl Casone that the debt is “a ticking time bomb and that some of us have been talking about for a long time.”...