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The 60th annual Academy of Country Music Awards streamed on Amazon Prime Thursday night, but those watching from home didn’t get to experience the exuberance of 12,000 people bursting into a Janis Joplin jam. The audience in the Star’s state-of-the-art venue reveled in an evening of nostalgia and new blood, with a few stars who would have once looked hopelessly out-of-place at a country music event. Nicole Kidman sat beside her man, Keith Urban. Lionel Richie reminded us he wrote Kenny Rogers’ “Lady.” And there was Jelly Roll with his face tattoos and class-clown goofiness, autographing an actual jar of…

Texas stores are bracing for tariff costs — and shoppers could bear the price increases.Nearly three in four retailers and wholesalers expect higher tariffs to deliver a negative effect this year, according to a survey at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Of those respondents, more than 75% expect to pass on those costs to consumers. The report is another signal of the increasing concerns that new fees on global trade pose for stores and their shoppers. Retailers, even amid the confusion and uncertainty, are trying to navigate a new environment that could upend their operations.“They know that they operate…

(Michael Hogue)Jonathan Borofsky’s sculpture Walking to the Sky has been gone from Dallas for so long few remember it was ever here, towering over Nasher Sculpture Center’s garden as seven fiberglass figures — among them a little girl with pigtails and a man in suit and tie — ascended heavenward along its 100-foot-tall steel pole. Long before there was a deck park, before the area was shrouded by trees and towers, you used to be able to see the sculpture from the highway.And it was a magnificent, majestic work — “a very personal symbol,” Borofsky said Wednesday from his studio…

The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a civil rights investigation into EPIC City, a planned Muslim-centric development near Dallas, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn said.U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi told Cornyn that the DOJ would open an investigation in response to a request from the Texas Republican last month, according to a statement from the Senator’s office. Cornyn expressed concern that those involved in the planned development could discriminate against Jewish and Christian Texans.Attempts to contact the DOJ were not immediately returned.“Any violations of federal law must be swiftly prosecuted, and I know under (President Donald Trump‘s) administration, they will…

Basketball season is over for the Los Angeles Lakers and the Dallas Mavericks. But like so many Mavs fans, I’m still deeply frustrated personally by the trade of Luka Doncic. And as a former mayor and a business leader in our city, I know it is going to keep hurting because it came at an enormous long-term cost to Dallas. Cities are more than a collection of roads and buildings; the success of a city is driven by the intangibles … the pride of its people, its competitiveness and its image in greater society. Like all of you, I have…

WASHINGTON — Retired Justice David Souter, who joined the U.S. Supreme Court as a supposed conservative “stealth nominee” but instead emerged as a liberal justice who backed abortion rights and dissented in the 2000 ruling that gave the presidency to Republican George W. Bush, died Thursday. He was 85.Souter, who served 19 years on the court before retiring in 2009, died peacefully at his home in New Hampshire, the court said in a statement on Friday.“Justice David Souter served our Court with great distinction for nearly twenty years. He brought uncommon wisdom and kindness to a lifetime of public service,”…

Mary Jung would like you to believe she didn’t have this discussion. At least not until the greatest Mother’s Day gift of her life becomes a reality this weekend.“I may not be superstitious,” Mary, a San Antonio elementary school PE teacher, said last week between helping with STAAR testing. “But I‘m a little stitious”It might be testing fate too much to be too cavalier about what it would mean to see her two boys, Texas Rangers third baseman Josh Jung and Detroit third baseman Jace Jung, younger by 2 ½ years, meet as major leaguers.On Mother’s Day weekend. Nope. Absolutely…

In an effort to support the more than half a million Texas children lacking child care, the Legislature is considering measures to improve access and quality.Efforts include bills that aim to simplify data sharing among state agencies, enhance access for children with disabilities, improve safety standards at day cares and broaden eligibility for subsidized child care.Child care advocates say about 25% of the state’s 2.1 million children under 6 lack such services. Most of them have parents who work and need child care.Related:How would Head Start’s elimination impact Texas children and families?The Education LabReceive our in-depth coverage of education issues…

WINNIPEG, Manitoba — The Dallas Stars created a mismatch in Game 1 that Winnipeg simply had no answer for.Stars coach Pete DeBoer double-shifted top-line forward Mikko Rantanen, so he played minutes with both Roope Hintz and Mikael Granlund on the first line and with Sam Steel and Evgenii Dadonov on the fourth line.Both of Rantanen’s 5-on-5 goals in his second-period hat trick came while playing on the fourth line. His first was after an initial shot by Dadonov. His second was a deflection off a Thomas Harley shot, with his fellow forwards causing chaos in front of the net. “That…

AUSTIN – The Texas House gave initial approval to a bill Thursday that would ban citizens of China, Iran, North Korea and Russia from owning properties in Texas, moving the state one step closer to creating barriers for property ownership to people from countries deemed hostile.On a largely partisan vote of 85-60, the House approved the bill, making it the latest Republican-led policy once considered too extreme for the House now on a direct path to becoming law as the chamber shifts further to the right.“We must not allow oppressive regimes who actively seek to do us harm to seize…