1 hour ago Philadelphia shooting: Three killed after hundreds of shots fired at street party

Terrified witnesses said they heard hundreds of shots fired at a street party, with at least three people confirmed killed and other victims being treated in nearby hospitals

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5 h. ago Starmer, Cooper and King Charles mark 20th anniversary of 7/7 attacks

PM says ‘those who tried to divide us failed’ while monarch says victims and stories of courage should be rememberedKeir Starmer, King Charles and the home secretary, Yvette Cooper, have marked the 20th anniversary of the 7 July attacks in London in which Islamist suicide bombers killed 52 people and injured more than 770.The prime minister said: “Today the whole country will unite to remember the lives lost in the 7/7 attacks, and all those whose lives were changed for ever. We honour the courage shown that day – the bravery of the emergency services, the strength of survivors and the unity of Londoners in the face of terror. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago The places where deadly Texas floodwaters have killed at least 79 people

Searchers used helicopters, boats and drones to search for victims in flash floods that tore across Texas’s Hill Country at the start of the Fourth of July weekend

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11 h. ago Texas floods: death toll rises as search and rescue turns into grim recovery operation

Residents observe day of prayer after 82 people killed and 10 girls and one camp counselor still unaccounted forResidents in central Texas were observing a day of prayer on Sunday for at least 82 people killed and dozens missing in Friday’s devastating flash flooding, as a search and rescue operation for survivors began to morph into a grim exercise of recovering bodies.Relatives continued an anxious wait for news of 10 girls and one camp counselor still unaccounted for from a riverside summer camp that was overwhelmed by flash flooding from the Guadalupe River, which rose 26ft (8 meters) in 45 minutes on Friday morning after torrential pre-dawn rain north of San Antonio. Continue reading...

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13 h. ago Boko Haram militants kill 9 people and injure 4 in northeastern Nigeria, authorities say

Islamic extremists have killed nine people and injured four in northeastern Nigeria's Borno state, authorities report

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15 h. ago Israeli strikes kill at least 38 in Gaza as ceasefire talks reach critical point

Benjamin Netanyahu travels to Washington as momentum gathers in negotiations for a US-sponsored deal Israeli warplanes launched a wave of strikes in Gaza on Sunday, killing at least 38 Palestinians, according to hospital officials, as talks over a ceasefire in the devastated territory reached a critical point.Officials at Nasser hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis said 18 people were killed by strikes in al-Mawasi, a nearby coastal area that is crowded with tented encampments of those displaced by fighting elsewhere. Continue reading...

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16 h. ago What to know about the flash floods in Texas that killed nearly 70 people

Flash floods in Texas have killed nearly 70 people, many of them children

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17 h. ago Search for 27 missing girls continues after Texas flash flood kills at least 51

Flash floods from a raging central Texas river have killed at least 51 people

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18 h. ago Foreign policy was a ‘driver of 7/7 attacks’, says former counter

On July 7 2005, four suicide bombers targeted the capital’s transport network, killing 52 people and injuring more than 770.

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19 h. ago Search for 27 missing girls plows forward after flash flood kills at least 51 people in Texas

Disastrous flash floods from a raging central Texas river have killed at least 51 people, a total that may increase

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23 h. ago Man who lost entire family in Boeing 737 plane crash horror tortured by six

Ethiopian Airlines ET302 crashed after leaving Addis Ababa in 2019, killing 157 people minutes after take-off including Paul Njoroge's wife Carolyne, and three children age 6, 4, and 9 months

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25 h. ago National Weather Service under fire after failing to warn of horror Texas floods that killed at least 50 people

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was brutally grilled over the delayed warning alerts Texas residents received before the monster flash flood was about to devastate the state.

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26 h. ago Everything we know about Texas flooding victims: Girl ‘living her best life’ at camp and man who saved his family

The devastating Texas floods have killed at least 43 people, including 15 children and 28 adults

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26 h. ago Texas continues grim flood recovery with at least 50 killed, including 15 children

Some two dozen girls still unaccounted for after summer camps swept away as Guadalupe River rises 26ft in 45 minutesRescuers searched on Saturday for 27 girls missing from a riverside summer camp in the US state of Texas, after torrential rains caused devastating flooding that killed at least 50 people – with more rain pounding the region.The flooding in Kerr county killed at least 43 people, including 15 children, and at least eight people died in nearby counties. Continue reading...

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29 h. ago Brothers recall terrifying moment they had to swim for their lives to escape Texas floods

Piers and Ruffin Boyett, 11 and 14, were at Camp La Junta in Hunt, Texas, when a flash flood swept through the area and killed at least 51 people, including four campers

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32 h. ago Girl ‘living her best life’ at camp and man who saved his family. Everything we know about Texas flooding victims

The devastating Texas floods have killed at least 43 people, including 15 children and 28 adults

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33 h. ago Texas continues grim flood recovery with at least 43 killed, including 15 children

Some two dozen girls still unaccounted for after summer camps swept away as Guadalupe River rises 26ft in 45 minutesRescuers by Saturday had begun the grim task of recovering the bodies of children and adults who were swept away in a deadly flash flood in Texas, caused by a powerful storm that killed dozens of people.At an evening briefing, local officials said that 43 people had been confirmed dead,15 of them children, with at least 27 girls from a summer camp still missing. Continue reading...

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40 h. ago ‘Blatant misinformation’: Social Security Administration email praising Trump’s tax bill blasted as a ‘lie’

Previously apolitical Social Security Administration lauded Trump’s debt-expanding bill after its passageAn email sent by the US Social Security Administration (SSA) that claims Donald Trump’s major new spending bill has eliminated taxes on benefits for most recipients is misleading, critics have said.The reconciliation bill – which the president called the “one big, beautiful bill” before signing it on Friday after Republicans in Congress passed it – includes provisions that will strip people of their health insurance, cut food assistance for the poor, kill off clean energy development and raise the national debt by trillions of dollars. Continue reading...

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43 h. ago Israeli airstrikes kill 14 Palestinians in Gaza, another 10 people die seeking food

Israeli airstrikes killed 14 people in the Gaza Strip, while another 10 Palestinians were killed separately as they sought food in the embattled enclave, hospital officials said

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44 h. ago Incredible story of little summer camp girl clinging on for dear life in a tree after being swept 12 MILES down flooded river... as death toll hits 24 and dozens still missing

A terrified girl was among those rescued on Friday as unprecedented floods ravaged Kerr County in Texas, killing at least 24 people.

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