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Follow live updates on the Texas floods, where the death toll has surpassed 100, including Camp Mystic counselors and campers ...

A fire at a telecommunications centre in downtown Cairo on Monday, July 7, resulted in at least 21 people being injured. The ...

Search and rescue crews recovered the body of the third missing flood victim in Williamson County on July 8. This brings the ...

A sign hangs on Colleen Lucas' longtime home after floodwaters destroyed much of it on July 4, 2025, in Ingram, Texas. Colleen Lucas stands outside her home of 40 years days after Guadalupe River ...

From the daily newsletter: a report from the scene in Kerr County. Plus: a hundred years of book recommendations.

Democratic Senators Cory Booker and Alex Padilla have introduced a bill that would ban Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from wearing masks or concealing their identities during raids and ...

Members of Wisconsin’s Urban Search and Rescue Task Force, known as Wisconsin Task Force 1 (WI-TF1), are currently on their way to Texas to assist with search efforts following devastating flooding in ...