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Good evening. Here are some stories you may have missed today.
Do you want to get this roundup via email? Sign up for our newsletters here. Senate GOP leaders delay vote on health care bill until after July 4
In a bruising setback, Senate Republican leaders are delaying a vote on their prized health care bill until after the July 4 recess, forced to retreat by a GOP rebellion that left them lacking enough votes to even begin debating the legislation, two sources said Tuesday.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., delivered the message to GOP senators at a private lunch attended by Vice President Mike Pence and White House chief of staff Reince Priebus. The decision was described by a Republican aide and another informed person who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the closed-door decision.
All GOP senators were planning to travel to the White House later Tuesday to meet with President Donald Trump, one source said.
Commentary: Health care bill would free millions from buying health insurance they don’t want, says contributor Doug Badger, a former health care adviser to George W. Bush.
National: A new global cyberattack has spread from Europe to the U. S., affecting ports and governments.
UT Dallas campus cleared after bomb threat hoax
The University of Texas at Dallas campus has been cleared after a bomb threat hoax caused a campus-wide evacuation Tuesday afternoon.
Lt. Ken MacKenzie with the University of Texas at Dallas Police Department said campus police received the bomb threat around 2 p.m. from an anonymous caller who demanded a large amount of money.
MacKenzie said they didn’t believe the threat was real since the caller hung up before giving details of the demands, but the university sent out an evacuation alert and notified the FBI as precautionary measures.
Courts: Four women have sued a Carrollton spa, claiming male employees harassed them and took pictures of them as they showered or undressed.
Does Fair Park need a $50M face lift? Dallas City Council could let voters decide
After arriving at City Hall just days ago, newly minted Dallas City Council member Kevin Felder was not happy with the “paltry sum” of $5 million set aside for Fair Park in the proposed November bond package.
“I said, ‘What is this?’” Fair Park’s new council member recounted Monday. Felder, aghast, told city staff, “This has got to change.”
He and Mayor Mike Rawlings backed more funding, and in November voters could decide whether to spend $50 million for a face lift and gut surgery in the aging 277-acre “crown jewel of the state, ” as Felder has called Fair Park. The funding proposal represents a significant investment in a park that is fading into the past and still has an uncertain and hotly debated future.
Real Estate: Former Dallas Cowboys star Emmitt Smith is departing from the real estate brokerage company he formed .
Retail: North Texas’ two big foreclosed regional shopping malls, Plano’s Collin Creek Mall and Lewisville’s Vista Ridge Mall, may soon have new owners .
Photo of the day
No ifs, ands or butts, goat yoga is the cutest fad sweeping the nation. Classes here in Dallas-Fort Worth, however, sell out so quickly that it can be a tough to seize an opportunity to flow next to these fur babies. Good news, though — the City of Grapevine has added to its schedule of classes in July at Nash Farm.
Around the site
Taco ‘bout a good deal: The Dallas Cowboys’ first-round draft pick, Taco Charlton, has inked deal with Taco Bueno, saying “Texas is THE PLACE for tacos.”
Immigration and housing: Dallas home builders are pushing for immigration reform to remedy a labor shortage that’s sending new home prices through the roof.
Commerce ISD trustee steps down: A day after Commerce’s police chief resigned due to fallout from the arrest of the 2016 Miss Black Texas US Ambassador, the man involved in the altercation with her resigned his school board post .
Losing connections: Business columnist Mitchell Schnurman says Frontier’s Verizon’s Fios deal stands as a textbook case of how not to do an acquisition .
Thinking ahead: A McKinney boy’s car seat invention will alert parents and authorities when it senses that a child is being exposed to dangerous heat in a car.
Finally
Steve Doud, a subscriber from Plano, emailed Mike Wilson, editor of The Dallas Morning News, to say he’ d read something in the June 21 issue that couldn’ t possibly be true.
An eight-paragraph Washington Post article on page 10A reported on a national study about kids and guns. The last sentence said 4.2 percent of American kids have witnessed a shooting in the past year.
“Really?” Doud wrote. “Does it really sound believable that one kid out of every 24 has witnessed a shooting in the last year? I think not, unless it was on TV, in a movie, or in a video game. In that case it would probably be more like 100 percent.”
His instincts were right. The statistic was not.
Here is the unfortunate story of how a couple of teams of researchers and a whole bunch of news organizations, including this one, unintentionally but thoroughly misinformed the public.
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