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The Dallas Cowboys have found their potential No. 2 wide receiver behind CeeDee Lamb.According to multiple reports Wednesday morning, the Cowboys and Steelers have agreed to a trade that will send George Pickens to Dallas. The trade, according to ESPN, will be centered on a third-round pick heading to Pittsburgh, as well as other late-round draft spick swaps, and is expected to be finalized Wednesday.Pickens, 24, had 59 catches for 900 yards and three touchdowns last season. He posted at least 50 receptions, 800 yards and three touchdowns in each of his three seasons with the Steelers. CowboysBe the smartest…

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Roman Catholic cardinals will begin the task on Wednesday of electing a new pope, locking themselves away from the world until they choose the man they hope can unite a diverse but divided global church.In a process dating to medieval times, the cardinals will file into the Vatican’s frescoed Sistine Chapel after a public Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica and start their secret conclave for a successor to Pope Francis, who died last month.No pope has been elected on the first day of a conclave for centuries, so voting could continue for several days before one…

Justin Myers has collected vinyl records for about a decade. It’s become an obsession after his wife gave him a record player.“Since then, I’ve just been collecting like crazy all the time. Daily records are coming in or I’m going shopping. It’s a sickness,” he said. Thousands of vinyl records are meticulously organized in his home office by genre and beats per minute. Some North Texas music lovers might know Myers as DJ Willie Dutch who hosts vinyl-only sets about once or twice a month. He said there’s something special about holding a vinyl in your hands. News RoundupsCatch up…

An off-duty Dallas police sergeant accused of driving while intoxicated with his child in the vehicle lied to a sheriff’s deputy about the number of beers he had drunk before getting behind the wheel, according to newly obtained records reviewed by The Dallas Morning News.Sgt. Matthew Terry, 40, was arrested early Friday morning in Delta County, located about 70 miles northeast of downtown Dallas. A sheriff’s deputy who pulled Terry over and a Department of Public Safety trooper who assisted with the traffic stop described smelling a “heavy odor” of alcohol, the trooper wrote in an arrest-warrant affidavit obtained Tuesday…

(Michael Hogue)Monday morning, as the skies darkened and the wind picked up, two men and five women stood in front of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office on Stemmons Freeway, a flat, two-story brick building whose windows are tinted pitch-black. Signs warned, in English and Spanish, “U.S. Property NO Trespassing.” The locked doors along the driveway told visitors not to take photos, shoot video or bring their cellphones inside the building.Behind the building, men, women and children — so many children, most tucked in strollers — waited outside beneath an awning. They sat in chairs and clutched folders full…

The Dallas Mavericks could use some lottery luck this month, especially after one of the most turbulent seasons in franchise history.They’re hoping four-time All-Star Rolando Blackman helps the ping pong balls fall in their favor as he represents the Mavericks onstage in Chicago for the 2025 NBA Draft Lottery on May 12.Each team usually sends two representatives, one behind the scenes for the drawing and a second who appears on ESPN’s television broadcast as the results are revealed.Dallas selected Blackman in the 1981 draft with the ninth overall pick. He played 11 seasons and averaged 19.2 points per game with…

Dallas Superintendent Stephanie Elizalde told a theater full of educators on Tuesday that Texas could be “standing on the precipice” of eliminating the STAAR test.During her annual State of the District address, Elizalde lauded a legislative proposal to scrap the state’s much-derided standardized test and replace it with a series of shorter exams that would be given to students throughout the year. Doing so, Elizalde said, would give teachers “actionable data so that we can turbocharge academic growth for each and every one of our students.”“I don’t know if it’ll happen this session,” the superintendent acknowledged. “But we’ve never been…

Texas House lawmakers on Tuesday advanced a bill that would change how Dallas Area Rapid Transit is funded. House Bill 3187, along with companion Senate Bill 1557, would compel the agency to create a permanent general mobility program, funded by 25% of DART’s annual sales tax revenue. The House Transportation Committee voted to advance a substituted version of the bill during a meeting Tuesday morning aimed at addressing pending committee business.The version removes a section of the bill that would eventually limit DART’s ability to collect the full 1% sales tax from its member cities, and revised the legislation to…

Children’s Health and UT Southwestern Medical Center have secured a nine-figure financial donation, the organizations announced on Tuesday, as they work toward constructing a $5 billion pediatric campus in Dallas that will span nearly 5 million square feet.The new campus, which broke ground in October and is scheduled to open in 2031, will replace the existing Children’s Medical Center Dallas, a facility that was completed in 1967 and ranks among Texas’ largest pediatric hospitals. The institutions did not disclose the exact figure, but the most recent grant comes from the Moody Foundation and exceeds $100 million, the donation amount the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to enforce a ban on transgender people in the military, while legal challenges proceed.The court acted in the dispute over a policy that presumptively disqualifies transgender people from military service.The court’s three liberal justices said they would have kept the policy on hold.Just after beginning his second term in January, Trump moved aggressively to roll back the rights of transgender people.Breaking NewsGet the latest breaking news from North Texas and beyond.Related:Transgender troops no longer barred from service as Biden repeals policy in move to boost inclusivenessAmong the…