19 m. ago Texas floods: more than 100 people dead and at least 161 still missing

Texas governor Greg Abbott said many people staying in state’s Hill Country still unaccounted for as questions mount over official response to disasterRescue crews continued on Tuesday to comb through parts of the Texas Hill Country devastated by catastrophic flash flooding over the Fourth of July weekend, but with more than 100 dead and hope fading for survivors, efforts have increasingly turned to search and recovery.As of Tuesday afternoon, the death toll across the six affected counties surpassed 100. Most of the deaths were in Kerr county, where officials said 87 bodies had so far been recovered, including 56 adults and 30 children. Identification was pending for 19 adults and seven children with one additional person still unidentified, county sheriff Larry Leitha told a news conference. Continue reading...

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23 m. ago Texas floods latest: Over 160 missing and 109 dead as full scale of the disaster becomes clear

Camp Mystic, an all-girls Christian summer camp on the riverbank, confirmed 27 girls and staff members had been killed

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66 m. ago Inquiry into Covid care home mistakes must give bereaved closure

A deadly virus forced the suspension of everyday life and created turmoil on an unprecedented level.

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88 m. ago Trump suggests running NYC if Mamdani elected and the White House taking control of DC

The president escalates attacks with threat of ‘tremendous power’ to ‘run’ cities if his political opponents are elected

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2 h. ago Dad tried to kayak in Texas floods to save his young daughters, whose last texts were ‘I love you’

RJ Harber helped evacuate other families but tragically lost his young daughters in the Texas floods on July 4.

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2 h. ago Trump threatens to escalate trade war amid confusion over new tariff rates

US president announces tariffs of up to 200% on foreign drugs and 50% on copper as he continues to shift plansDonald Trump vowed to further escalate his trade wars on Tuesday, threatening US tariffs of up to 200% on foreign drugs and 50% on copper, amid widespread confusion around his shifting plans.Hours after saying his latest deadline for a new wave of steep duties was “not 100% firm”, the US president declared that “no extensions will be granted” beyond 1 August. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Superman review – is it a bust? Is it a pain? James Gunn’s dim reboot is both

The Man of Steel – played with square-faced soullessness by David Corenswet – has an uninteresting crisis of confidence in Gunn’s cluttered, pointless franchise restarterHere is a film occupying the heartsinking Venn diagram overlap between franchise exhaustion and AI soullessness: a film fatally unconvinced of the reason for its own existence. We’d all hoped that writer-director James Gunn, who was in charge of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy movie series, might put some wind back beneath Superman’s wings – or in his cape, or under his boots, or at any rate somewhere near his costumed person. The Man of Steel needed a fresh start after his self-cancelling contest in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice in 2016, and getting muddled together with a lot of other utility superheroes in Justice League a year later – though I will admit to enjoying the pure hubristic craziness of the lengthy Zack Snyder cut of that movie when it saw the light of day.But this? If it was to be a reboot then...

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2 h. ago Lioness to face Dutch girlfriend in clash which could see England out of Euros

Beth Mead and Vivianne Miedema, who have been dating for three years, have insisted they only want to win for their team, even if it means one of them will go home from the Euros

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3 h. ago Wimbledon chiefs think SW19's iconic hawk Rufus could be gay after he failed to breed a successor

The bird has patrolled the grounds of the All England Club for 17 years, with the sole job of keeping it pigeon free while the players take to the grass for two weeks a year.

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3 h. ago Vivianne Miedema makes telling England assessment as 'All or nothing' game looms

Manchester City star Vivianne Miedema has the chance to knockout some current and former team-mates when the Netherlands take on England in a huge Euro 2025 clash

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3 h. ago Man 'kills himself by jumping into' passenger jet engine after running on to the runway as plane prepared for take

According to Corriere della Sera , the victim, who was not a passenger or airport staff member at Milan Bergamo Airport, died after being 'sucked into the plane engine'.

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3 h. ago The Guadalupe River in Texas surged 26 feet in just 45 minutes. It caught everyone off guard

What began as a routine flood developed into a deadly disaster, with the death toll now in triple digits

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3 h. ago Texas floods: more than 100 people dead as questions intensify over handling of disaster

At a press conference, authorities leading search efforts seemed to dodge questions about weather alert systemsRescue crews continued on Tuesday to comb through parts of the Texas Hill Country devastated by catastrophic flash flooding over the Fourth of July weekend, but with more than 100 dead and hope fading for survivors, efforts have increasingly turned to search and recovery.As of Tuesday morning, the death toll across the six affected counties surpassed 100. Most of the deaths were in Kerr county, where officials said 87 bodies had so far been recovered, including 56 adults and 30 children. Identification was pending for 19 adults and seven children with one additional person still unidentified, county sheriff Larry Leitha told a news conference. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Inside Sarina Wiegman’s gameplan to save England from Women’s Euro 2025 embarrassment

Wiegman has been planning for the match against her native Netherlands for some time, in one of many connections between the teams, but the clash comes with the twist of the Lionesses facing the prospect of early elimination from the Euros

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3 h. ago Photos of Camp Mystic for girls after the deadly flash floods in Texas

Camp Mystic was overrun by flash flooding that started on Independence Day. Rapidly rising waters ripped through the century-old all-girls Christian summer camp, killing at least 27 people. Others are still missing.

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3 h. ago Emmanuel Macron promises ‘tangible results’ on illegal migration in state visit speech to UK Parliament

The French President addressed MPs and peers ahead of talks on the small boats crisis with Sir Keir Starmer

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3 h. ago ‘Too Much’s Meg Stalter Would “Literally Start Crying” While Shooting Fergie’s ‘London Bridge’ Remix Video

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4 h. ago Concern after loyalist bonfire in Belfast sited close to electricity substation

NIE Networks have said mitigations will be put in place.

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4 h. ago Man found dead in Edinburgh City Chambers as cops investigate 'mystery' death

Police Scotland are investigating the "unexplained" death of a man at Edinburgh City Chambers.

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4 h. ago Schoolboy, 14, dead after being hit by car towing trailer: Man, 24, arrested after 'killing young pedestrian while unfit through drugs'

Emergency services rushed to the horror crash in Catherington, near Waterlooville, Hampshire, at around 9pm last night.

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