Nation and World
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Texas leads nation in flood deaths due to geography, size and population
Jul 12, 2025 7:29 pm - Even before the Central Texas floods that killed more than 100 people, the state was by far the leader in U.S. flood deaths due partly to geography that can funnel rainwa...
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Palestinian American from Florida killed in the West Bank, family says
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Russian drone, cruise missile and bomb attacks kill at least 6 in Ukraine
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Lawmakers visit ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ after being blocked
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59 Palestinians in Gaza are killed by Israeli airstrikes or shot dead while seeking aid
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Trump says he’s considering ‘taking away’ Rosie O’Donnell’s US citizenship
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Trump announces 30% tariffs against EU, Mexico to begin Aug. 1, rattling major US trading partners
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Trump says he wants to deport ‘the worst of the worst.’ Government data tells another story
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He seeded clouds over Texas. Then came the conspiracy theories.
Jul 12, 2025 6:00 am - Augustus Doricko knew when he founded a cloud-seeding start-up in 2023 that he’d have to contend with misunderstandings and conspiracy theories surrounding the technology. Still, he wasn’t quite prepared for the sheer volume of online fury he has faced in the wake of the catastrophic Texas floods that have killed more than 100 people and nearly twice that many missing.
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David Gergen, consummate political insider, dies at 83Jul 11, 2025 9:51 pm - David R. Gergen, who helped craft and protect the image of four presidents as a senior White House communications adviser and who traveled the consummate political inside...