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This was wild. A guy shoots into the Dallas PD headquarters very early on a Saturday morning, flees in tricked up van, police corner him in a parking lot and negotiate with him, and then just decide to use a sniper to kill him. Then police blew up the van.
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- Those big flag poles installed at the White House this week have a connection to Wise County.
- The flag is actually on a $55 million ranch which, I think, is technically in Wise and Jack counties. (Here are some pictures on Facebook of its installation.)
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- There was (another) fatal shooting in Deep Ellum last night, and @Fox4Terry was hard at work capturing my favorite bit: Detectives still wearing long-sleeved white shirts and ties.
- Trump somehow has managed to turn the Israel/Iraq war into an extended "look at me" moment as he, as always, says he will make a decision "in two weeks" about the U.S.'s role.
- But to think that this was a written statement prepared in advance by Trump is comical:
- Totally normal.
- This ought to be a winning platform: Less holidays. (Not to mention he just happened to have fired this post off on Juneteenth.)
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- In the constant battle over presidential powers, the courts are ill-equipped to handle it. This is a prime example. Is the California National Guard even still there or needed? And this isn't even a final decision. It's just a temporary order.
- I used to pass this building all the time back in the day on I-35 going south out of Dallas. Always wondered what was going on there. Now I know.
- This is a judge on Texas' highest criminal court speaking at a conference yesterday.
- This is the defense team in the Karen Read case. Those seated with Read are her four lawyers. The rest are support staff, many volunteering, including law students from Harvard and Boston College. This doesn't include the multiple expert witnesses who were called to testify on her behalf.
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- Lauren Whitener Clock: 5 years and 353 days.
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