{"id":85970,"date":"2025-07-23T13:06:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T13:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/85970\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T13:06:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T13:06:13","slug":"dallas-fort-worth-morning-briefing-july-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/85970\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas-Fort Worth Morning Briefing July 23"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning, DFW. Here’s what you need to know today.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Your Weather Planner<\/p>\n

TK.<\/p>\n

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Get your 7-day forecast:\u00a0Austin<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0San Antonio<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Dallas<\/a><\/p>\n

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Watch the latest news and more local stories from across the country.<\/p>\n

Around Texas\u00a0<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0North Texas Republicans gather for ‘Red Rally’ ahead of special session<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Some North Texas Republicans gathered for what is being called the first-ever Texas Red Rally, as state lawmakers head back to work in Austin for a special session that began on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to explain to those who don\u2019t know and to kind of remind everybody what the party does, what the Republican Party stands for, principles,\u201d said Sharon Henson, leader of the Rockwall County Republican Party.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0House Democrats consider special session quorum break<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Texas House Democrats have a history of breaking quorum to slow down the redistricting process. The rare mid-decade reworking of the state\u2019s congressional map is a direct order from President Donald Trump, who believes lawmakers can rework four of the state’s districts to create five new Republican districts.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Texas ranks No. 1 in nation for euthanasia. Some nonprofits are hoping to bring the number down<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

According to Best Friends Animal Society, Texas ranks first in the nation for shelter deaths. Shelters euthanized roughly 86,000 adoptable cats and dogs.<\/p>\n

The good news? More than 75% of Texas shelter pets were saved last year. Dallas Animal Services launched its Be Dallas 90 program to create positive outcomes for 90% of its population.<\/p>\n

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Friends United in Rescue shows pictures of rescued dogs. (Spectrum News 1\/Valencia Jones)<\/p>\n

Around The Nation<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Justice Department wants to interview Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell<\/a><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Coca-Cola confirms a cane-sugar version of its trademark cola is coming to the U.S. this fall<\/a><\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Ozzy Osbourne, who led Black Sabbath and became the godfather of heavy metal, dies at 76<\/a><\/p>\n

Deep in the Heart of Texas\u00a0
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Texas Rangers’ Cody Freeman, center, reacts in front of Athletics shortstop Jacob Wilson (5) at second base after hitting a double that scored teammate Josh Smith during the fifth inning of a baseball game, Monday, July 21, 2025, in Arlington, Texas. (AP Photo\/LM Otero)<\/p>\n

Freeman and Helman get big-league 1sts on back-to-back pitches for Rangers against A’s<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n

Cody Freeman and Michael Helman had big-league firsts on consecutive pitches for the Texas Rangers after Josh Jung homered in his first at-bat back in the majors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning, DFW. Here’s what you need to know today.\u00a0 Your Weather Planner TK. Get your 7-day forecast:\u00a0Austin\u00a0|\u00a0San…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":85971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,9428,1596,7371,7372,7450,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-85970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-app-morning-briefing","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-fort-worth","12":"tag-fortworth","13":"tag-kelsey-leffingwell","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114902701547126454","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}