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In an 8 to 7 vote today, the Texas State Board of Education has approved a controversial K-Thru-5 curriculum that incorporates Bible stories.

As Bill Zeeble, the member station KERA reports the materials could appear in classrooms as early as next school year.

Critics of the Texas Education Agency-sponsored Blue Bonnet Learning curriculum, which weaves religious tales into daily lessons, say too many stories come from the Christian Bible.

Even after adding Jewish, Muslim, and Hindu tales, State Board of Education member Rebecca Bell

Meadowo is unconvinced. It seems to me like it is trying to place a band-aid on a gaping wound.

Still, hers was the minority view. School districts don't have to use Blue Bonnet, but they get

additional money from the state if they do. I'm Bill Zeeble in Dallas.

There still could be other choices, but the Wall Street Journal is reporting today.

Wall Street financier Kevin Warsh is on President-elect Donald Trump's shortlist as a possible nominee for Treasury Secretary.

The journal also positing that Trump could later appoint Warsh, a former Fed governor, to take over Fed Chair Jerome Powell's job at the end of his term in 2026.

Trump was also said to be considering another possible treasury pick. Billionaire investor Scott Bessent head up the National Economic Council, over Warsh has been a critic of protectionist trade policies and was asked about his stance on tariffs,

according to people familiar with the matter.

FBI director Chris Ray has more than two years left in his term, but his days in the job may be numbered once Donald Trump returns to the White House.

In P.R. as Kerry Johnson reports, the FBI director is offering thanks and praise to his employees.

At a benefit in Washington to support scholarships and

donations for FBI families in need of extra support, Chris Ray says his confidence in the FBI

workforce remains unwavering. Since he was named to lead the Bureau in 2017, Ray's presided over

dozens of graduations at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, personally greeting

more than 40 percent of the agents on the job today. Natalie Barra, president of the agents association,

says Ray has been the calm in the storm and drowned out noise with facts. President-elect Trump's

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