Lila Wranglers warm up for Inauguration Day by performing for Ted Cruz

But the boot-wearers weren't a group of slick-talking lobbyists meeting with a congressman or a cadre of local politicians making a bold fashion statement. They were a gaggle of nearly 50 kids waiting to jump and swing for Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.

Anti-Trump protesters take to the streets in many cities for a third night

Demonstrators chant during a protest in opposition of President-elect Donald Trump, Friday, Nov. 11, 2016, at Bayfront Park in Miami. Michelle Ocello holds a sign as she listens to a speaker during an event dubbed a "Love Rally" organized by students as a peaceful demonstration following the presidential election Friday, Nov. 11, 2016, on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis.

Texas Officials: Voter error, not conspiracy cause ballots to flip from Trump-Pence to Clinton-Kaine

Amid cries of a "rigged election," there were two instances of a GOP ballot being flipped to cast Democratic votes in Tarrant County on Tuesday, the second day of early voting. But, elections officials there say, there's nothing nefarious, just simple "voter error."

911 stair climb tribute Sunday in Fort Worth

Jeff Sprekelmeyer, carrying an American and U.S. Marine Corps flag joins other participants, including area first responders, during the Sons of the Flag's second annual Climb for a Calling stair climb Sunday at Burnett Plaza in Fort Worth. Honor Guard members from several departments including Grapevine, North Richland Hills and Flower Mound fire departments open the ceremony for the Sons of the Flag's second annual Climb for a Calling stair climb at Burnett Park in Fort Worth, Texas, Sunday, Sept.

Long before Breitbart, Trump CEO Bannon ran Ed Bassa Biosphere 2

More than 20 years before he took over Trump's presidential campaign, media executive Stephen K. Bannon was the investment banker hired to rescue Fort Worth philanthropist Ed Bass's Biosphere 2 environmental research project. It was Bannon who ousted the original residents of the 3-acre Arizona laboratory as dysfunctional and reshaped the project from - his words - a "space colonization" test to what is now a University of Arizona science program.

US airlines to start scheduled flights to Cuba

Six airlines won permission Friday to resume scheduled commercial air service from the U.S. to Cuba for the first time in more than five decades, another milestone in President Barack Obama's campaign to normalize relations between the two countries. The airlines - American, Frontier, JetBlue, Silver Airways, Southwest and Sun Country - were approved by the Department of Transportation for a total of 155 roundtrip flights per week.