Vigil for Malik Tyler, Texas republicans push back on Mexico tariffs: Your Thursday morning roundup

 [Morning roundup]( 06/06/2019 By Mallorie Sullivan and Carla Solórzano Good morning! Here is a look at the top headlines as we start the day. 🌦️ Weather: Mostly to partly cloudy with a 40% chance of scattered thunderstorms. High: 88. 🔎 Prefer the online view? It's [her]( Brenda Delgado (right) speaks to an attorney during her murder trial Wednesday in the 363rd Judicial District Court at the Frank Crowley Courthouse in Dallas. (Lynda M. González/Staff Photographer) COURTS & CRIME [Jealous ex was the 'common denominator' in Dallas dentist's slaying, lead detective says]( In the days after the fatal shooting of Kendra Hatcher, Brenda Delgado denied ever knowing the Dallas pediatric dentist. She told a detective that her ex-boyfriend, Ricardo Paniagua, had been secretive about his new relationship with Hatcher and that she didn't bother to keep up with his dating life. But the detective, Eric Barnes, never believed that story. "It's an absolute lie," [he told a Dallas County jury Wednesday, the third day of Delgado's murder trial.]( She is accused of crafting the plot to kill Hatcher, who was found dead Sept. 2, 2015, in the parking garage of her Uptown apartment building. Prosecutors say Delgado, 36, was jealous of Hatcher's relationship with Paniagua and paid Kristopher Love and Crystal Cortes to kill her.  Also: [Dozens gathered to remember the 13-year-old slain in Pleasant Grove]( as Dallas' violent crime surge continues.   And: A white Fort Worth couple [is challenging the Indian Child Welfare Act as they fight to adopt a Native American child.](  ADVERTISEMENT POLITICS [Top Texas Republicans push back on Trump's Mexico tariffs, but how far will they go?]( Top Texas Republicans in Congress [continue to caution President Donald Trump against imposing tariffs on all Mexican imports to the U.S.]( citing the substantial economic harm that would result from a standoff with Texas' top trading partner. But it remains unclear if those lawmakers would block Trump if he follows through on his threat, which he issued to prod Mexico to do more to prevent migrants from illegally entering the U.S. Neither Texas Sens. Ted Cruz nor John Cornyn on Wednesday would commit to supporting a measure to overturn Trump's Mexico tariffs — which are slated to start Monday at a 5% level and then ratchet up over time — as they projected optimism that such action won't be necessary. "This is like a giant game of chicken," Cruz said, predicting that one country is "going to blink."  Also: Texas lawmakers [have killed a plan to spend $100 million to pay for surge operations]( the U.S.-Mexico border this summer.   Local politics: Early voting in Dallas [surges in some council districts with possible implications for mayoral race.](  BUSINESS [JPMorgan Chase will bring 4,000 more workers to Plano with new tower project]( As financial giant JPMorgan Chase finishes moving employees into its huge new Plano campus, [it's already pushing ahead with a plan to house thousands of additional workers.]( "We are starting a 12-story building," confirms Chase spokesman Greg Hassell. "It's a pretty significant building." Plano's planning and zoning commission this week approved plans for the 540,000-square-foot Chase tower at Legacy West. The more than $100 million office project will allow Chase to grow its workforce in Plano's $3 billion Legacy West development to almost 11,000 workers. The new tower, which will house 4,000 people, will be the tallest of four big buildings in Chase's almost 50-acre campus, which opened on the south side of State Highway 121 in late 2017.  Also: Rent the Runway has opened a new fulfillment center in Arlington [with plans for 500-plus employees by year-end.](   And: American Airlines [today begins nonstop flights to Munich and Dublin for the first time in DFW Airport history.](  ADVERTISEMENT EDITORS' PICKS - Commentary: Metro columnist Sharon Grigsby [writes about how she's sick of negligent pet owners after a couple was attacked Saturday]( in Ferguson Park. - Education: Fort Worth ISD voted Tuesday [to fire a teacher accused of tweeting to President Donald Trump for help removing 'the illegals.']( - Philanthropy: Dallas philanthropist Lyda Hill is funding a new [$4.6 million campaign to raise human papillomavirus vaccination rates]( in 26 North Texas counties. The Dallas Morning News produced three extra editions on D-Day and brought in extra operators on the switchboard to handle the calls. (File photo) FINALLY... [Today is D-Day. This is how Dallas lived it.]( At 2:47 a.m. on June 6, 1944, Dallas was awakened by the wail of sirens. Allied troops had landed in France, beginning their assault on Hitler's "Fortress Europe." The sirens were a pre-arranged signal, although many Dallasites did not seem to know. News of the landings had been announced only minutes earlier by Texas-born Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force. "A landing was made this morning on the coast of France ... the hour of your liberation is approaching," Eisenhower said in his radio address. [Here are excerpts from The Dallas Morning News extra editions -- there were three on that historic day -- capturing the city's fears, hope and confusion.](  👋 That's all for this morning! 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