70 m. ago Texas flooding death toll exceeds 100 as 5 million remain under flood watch – latest updates

At least 84 bodies recovered in Kerr County, according to officials; Donald Trump will travel to Texas later this weekTexas floods kill more than 100 people as more victims expectedTexas flood survivors question planning and responseResidents of Kerr County began clearing mud and salvaging what they could from their demolished properties as they recounted harrowing escapes from rapidly rising floodwaters late Friday.Reagan Brown said his parents, in their 80s, managed to escape uphill as water inundated their home in the town of Hunt. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Debate erupts over role job cuts played in weather forecasts ahead of deadly Texas floods

Former federal officials and outside experts have warned for months that President Donald Trump’s staffing cuts to the National Weather Service could endanger lives

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12 h. ago Ice ‘politically targeted’ farm worker activist Juarez Zeferino, colleagues say

Detention comes amid Trump crackdown against perceived political enemies, including immigrants and labor leadersFarm worker activist Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez Zeferino, 25, was driving his partner to her job on a tulip farm north of Seattle one March morning when they were pulled over by an unmarked car. A plainclothes agent for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) emerged and shattered Juarez Zeferino’s front window before handcuffing him, his partner said.The officer drove Juarez Zeferino to a nondescript warehouse – the same one he and other activists had years ago discovered is an unmarked Ice holding facility. After his 25 March detention, dozens gathered outside to demand his release. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago The last video of Jeffrey Epstein alive: Trump officials release tape of paedophile financier walking to prison cell where he allegedly killed himself

CCTV footage taken outside disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein has now been released, six years after the notorious paedophile was found dead.

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20 h. ago Texas floods live: 82 people dead, officials say, as Trump declares major disaster

Rescuers still searching for missing people, including 10 girls from Camp Mystic, a Christian youth campTexas continues grim flood recoveryOfficials have said waters in some parts of Texas are starting to recede to where they were before the storm.The Guadalupe River near Kerrville – which surged by more than 20 feet within 90 minutes during the downpour — is, according to CNN, back down to just a foot or two higher than its level before the flood. Continue reading...

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23 h. ago Texas floods live: at least 78 people dead, officials say, as Trump declares major disaster

Rescuers still searching for missing people, including 10 girls from Camp Mystic, a Christian youth campTexas continues grim flood recoveryOfficials have said waters in some parts of Texas are starting to recede to where they were before the storm.The Guadalupe River near Kerrville – which surged by more than 20 feet within 90 minutes during the downpour — is, according to CNN, back down to just a foot or two higher than its level before the flood. Continue reading...

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26 h. ago Texas floods: at least 78 people dead, officials say, as Trump declares major disaster

Rescuers still searching for missing people, including 10 girls from Camp Mystic, a Christian youth campTexas continues grim flood recoveryOfficials have said waters in some parts of Texas are starting to recede to where they were before the storm.The Guadalupe River near Kerrville – which surged by more than 20 feet within 90 minutes during the downpour — is, according to CNN, back down to just a foot or two higher than its level before the flood. Continue reading...

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27 h. ago Texas floods: at least 70 people dead, officials say, as Trump declares major disaster

Hundreds of rescuers searching for those missing in devastating floods including girls from Camp Mystic, a Christian youth campTexas continues grim flood recoveryOfficials have said waters in some parts of Texas are starting to recede to where they were before the storm.The Guadalupe River near Kerrville – which surged by more than 20 feet within 90 minutes during the downpour — is, according to CNN, back down to just a foot or two higher than its level before the flood. Continue reading...

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29 h. ago Texas flood victims furious as local officials blame Trump's National Weather Service over failed warnings

Victims of the flash floods wrecking havoc on Central Texas are infuriated as local officials blame the National Weather Service for failing to warn communities of the dire threat.

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30 h. ago Texas floods: at least 69 people dead, officials say, as Trump declares major disaster

Hundreds of rescuers searching for those missing in devastating floods including girls from Camp Mystic, a Christian youth campTexas continues grim flood recoveryOfficials have said waters in some parts of Texas are starting to recede to where they were before the storm.The Guadalupe River near Kerrville – which surged by more than 20 feet within 90 minutes during the downpour — is, according to CNN, back down to just a foot or two higher than its level before the flood. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Police patrols stepped up after wave of attacks on Sara Cox's family home in Greater Manchester

Police say vandals have targeted the BBC presenter's childhood farm in Bolton

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4 d. ago EU closing in on ‘framework’ trade deal with US to avoid Trump’s 50% tariffs

Diplomats and officials say bloc willing to accept 10% tariffs, but talks may go down to wire before Wednesday deadlineEurope live – latest updatesThe EU and US are closing in on a high-level “framework” trade deal that would avert 50% tariffs on all exports from the bloc next Wednesday, Donald Trump’s self-imposed deadline.Talks in Washington could go down to the wire, but diplomats and officials said the EU was willing to accept Trump’s 10% blanket tariffs. Negotiators will only accept this, however, in exchange for an extension in talks and possible concessions on a 25% car tariff, which is hurting the German car industry, sources said. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Trump’s DOJ looks at criminal charges for election officials it says don’t do enough to safeguard voting systems

Trump has spread unfounded claims the 2020 election was fraudulent

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5 d. ago Trump administration sued for giving Medicaid data to deportation officials

Twenty states say giving immigrants’ health data to DHS broke privacy laws and threatens access to emergency careThe Trump administration violated federal privacy laws when it turned over Medicaid data on millions of enrollees to deportation officials, a group of 20 states allege in a lawsuit.Last month advisers to the secretary of the Department of Heath and Human Services (HHS), Robert F Kennedy Jr, ordered the release of a dataset that includes the private health information of people living in California, Illinois, Washington state and Washington DC to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Continue reading...

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5 d. ago US halts weapons shipments to Ukraine over fears stockpiles are too low

Some shipments have been stopped ‘to put America’s interests first’, White House saysSee all our Ukraine war coverageThe US is halting some shipments of weapons to Ukraine amid concerns that its own stockpiles have declined too much, officials said Tuesday, a setback for the country as it tries to fend off escalating attacks from Russia.Certain munitions were previously promised to Ukraine under the Biden administration to aid its defences during the more than three-year-old war. The pause reflects a new set of priorities under President Donald Trump and came after defence department officials scrutinised US stockpiles and raised concerns. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago 20 states sue after the Trump administration releases private Medicaid data to deportation officials

The Trump administration has violated federal privacy laws when it turned over Medicaid data on millions of enrollees to federal deportation officials last month, says California Attorney General Rob Bonta

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6 d. ago New Trump portrait hangs in Colorado capitol months after president’s outburst

New White House-approved painting was donated after Trump described the original as ‘purposefully distorted’Months after Donald Trump expressed strong negative opinions about a presidential portrait of him in the Colorado state capitol that he described as “purposefully distorted”, a White House-approved replacement now hangs in its place.The new portrait, which Trump reportedly demanded be printed with a golden border so it would catch the light and “glimmer”, bears a close resemblance to Trump’s official second-term photograph, which hangs in more than 1,600 federal buildings across the US and thousands more on a voluntary basis. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago California mayor on Trump’s immigration raids: ‘It is a campaign of domestic terror’

Former marine Arturo Flores condemns ‘a level of psychological warfare I’ve only seen in theaters of war’As a United States marine, Arturo Flores served in Afghanistan and Iraq, where he worked as a military police officer and trained dogs to find roadside bombs.It’s his experience in the military that has made what he’s seen on the streets of southern California in recent weeks all the more disturbing to him, Flores said. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago White House says Canadian PM ‘caved’ to Trump demand to scrap tech tax

Trump officials hail U-turn as Mark Carney says decision to rescind digital services tax means revival of trade talksThe United States has said that Canada’s prime minister Mark Carney “caved” to demands from the White House after his government abruptly scrapped their digital services tax on US technology companies, which was set to go into effect on Monday.“It’s very simple. Prime minister Carney and Canada caved to president [Donald] Trump and the United States of America,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a daily briefing. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Military requesting to pull 200 troops back from California protest duty

The top military commander in charge of troops deployed to Los Angeles to respond to protests against immigration raids has asked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth if 200 of those forces could be returned to wildfire fighting duty

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