Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport will install Islamic foot wash stations inside bathrooms at the facility, according to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. The project was officially registered with Texas regulators on July 31, according to documents detailing the project. The installation of the Wudu ablution stations is expected to be complete by the end of the year. "Project consists of adding Ablution stations to existing concourse level restrooms in Terminal D, one Men's ablution station in existing men's restroom and one Women's ablution station in the existing women's restroom," the project details read. TRAVELERS CLASH AFTER TSA SHARES SURPRISING GUIDANCE ABOUT AIRPORT ETIQUETTE It is privately funded and expected to cost around $300,000, the documents state. The updates aim to prevent water on standard restroom floors and protect sink counters. Similar low-level basins and interfaith spaces already exist at other major internatio...

Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth has won the Republican gubernatorial primary and will move on to face the Democratic nominee in November to replace outgoing Gov. Tim Walz. The victory amounts to a significant show of strength for Demuth, who stayed in the race after losing the Republican Party endorsement to Kendall Qualls at the state convention. Qualls secured the endorsement after 10 ballots, but Demuth argued that her legislative experience and record of leading House Republicans made her the party’s strongest candidate for November. Additionally, Demuth defeated MyPillow founder and CEO Mike Lindell, who had President Donald Trump’s endorsement and has national name recognition. No Republican has won a statewide election in the state since 2006, when Gov. Tim Pawlenty narrowly won reelection by less than a percentage point. Since then, Republicans have lost 28 consecutive statewide contests through the 2024 election, an 18-year drought that became the longest for either major...

A Mexican national who had been deported from the US multiple times before illegally reentering the country has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for sexually exploiting two minors, according to federal officials. Erik Santana-Garcia, 34, of Salt Lake City, Utah, was sentenced July 30 to 20 years in federal prison without parole, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for interstate transportation of a minor with intent to engage in illegal sexual activity, possession of child pornography and illegally reentering the US following a prior deportation, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Missouri. He pleaded guilty March 3, according to court documents. ICE LINES UP TO BOOT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CHILD SEX PREDATOR AFTER BOGUS ASYLUM CLAIM, EARLY PRISON RELEASE Santana-Garcia transported a minor across state lines intending to engage in illegal sexual activity with the child, prosecutors said. He left Utah with the victim on Nov. 10, 2024...

A Florida woman was arrested after authorities said she falsely claimed to have cancer and scammed more than 200 people out of more than $40,000 to pay off personal debts. Maribeth Ellen Jones, 51, of Bonita Springs, has been charged with grand theft between $20,000 and $100,000. She turned herself in at the Naples Jail Center this week after detectives obtained a warrant for her arrest on the second-degree felony charge, according to the Collier County Sheriff’s Office. Jones, who worked as an activities director in the community, allegedly told residents between 2022 and 2024 that she had cancer and was undergoing treatment, leading more than 200 people to donate to her because they believed she needed help. OHIO BROTHERS WHO POSED AS MIDDLE EASTERN ROYALTY RECEIVE LENGTHY SENTENCE FOR $21M FRAUD SCHEME Detectives said she even pretended her condition was worsening and had community members cut her hair to make it appear she was preparing to undergo chemotherapy. Community members ...

Nearly 30 years after rapper Tupac Shakur was fatally shot in Las Vegas , the only person ever charged in his killing is set to go on trial. Duane "Keffe D" Davis, 63, is scheduled to stand trial beginning Monday on a murder charge in the 1996 drive-by shooting that killed Shakur, one of hip-hop’s most influential artists. Davis has pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors do not accuse him of firing the shot, but allege he helped plan the attack and provided the gun used in the shooting. Shakur was shot Sept. 7, 1996, while riding in a BMW driven by Death Row Records founder Marion "Suge" Knight near the Las Vegas Strip. He died six days later at age 25. LAWYERS FOR SUSPECTED TUPAC SHAKUR KILLER CLAIM HIS WORDS WERE TWISTED, WANT HIM RELEASED FROM JAIL  Hours before the shooting, Shakur, Knight and others were involved in a fight at the MGM Grand with Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson, Davis’ nephew and a member of the South Side Compton Crips. Prosecutors say Davis,...

As tensions continue to rise between the United States and Iran , Iranian-affiliated hackers have reportedly reached into the heartland of America and targeted the systems that control a basic necessity of life: water. More than 30 community water systems in Minnesota were targeted in a coordinated cyberattack in late July, with similar activity being identified in a handful of other states. This should concern every American. But the most alarming part isn’t simply who may have been behind the attack. Instead, it’s how little sophistication may have been needed to pull it off in the first place. INVESTIGATORS BELIEVE IRANIAN HACKERS ARE LIKELY BEHIND CYBERATTACK ON MINNESOTA WATER SYSTEMS: REPORT Early indications suggest this was not some unstoppable cyberweapon that no municipality could have anticipated. Instead, the attackers appear to have targeted operational technology that is connected to the internet and exploited the kinds of fundamental security weaknesses experts have be...