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Texas floods latest: Hopes fade for missing Camp Mystic victims as death toll crosses 100

<p>Jon Stewart rebukes Republicans over Donald Trump's 'Big, Beautiful Bill' on The Daily Show on Monday July 7 2025</p>

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Jon Stewart uses GOP’s own words to skewer lawmakers who voted for Trump’s controversial bill

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<p>Tucker Carlson sat down with Iran's president over the weekend. The nation’s leader said its nuclear facilities were ‘severely damaged’</p>

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‘We don’t have any access’: Iran’s president backs Trump’s claims of damage caused by US strikes in interview

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Sanitation workers remain on strike with mounds of trash piling up in several cities

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<p>Vivian Stewart Nation was arrested on first-degree murder charges in the death of 78-year-old Beverly Rose Fletcher</p>

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<p>Immigration raids in LA’s MacArthur Park on Monday morning come after weeks of tensions and protests in the city over the Trump administration’s immigration operations</p>

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Immigration agents swarm MacArthur Park in Los Angeles in show of force drawing ire of Mayor Karen Bass

<p>President Donald Trump’s ‘border czar’ Tom Homan has defended the rising number of arrests of non-violent migrants</p>

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Trump’s border czar defends increasing number of arrests of non-violent migrants: ‘We’re gonna enforce law’

<p>A door at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection office in McAllen, Texas, after it was hit with gunfire on Monday morning.</p>

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Shooter is killed after opening fire at border agents as they arrived to work

<p>Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s supporters rally on July 7 outside a federal courthouse in Maryland, where a judge ordered Trump administration officials to testify in court about plans for the wrongly deported Salvadoran immigrant</p>

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Frustrated judge blasts Trump team over deportation plans for Kilmar Abrego Garcia: ‘Like trying to nail Jell-O to a wall’

<p>On Twitter and in media appearances JD Vance happily fueled speculation about a government cover-up of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes and associates</p>

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JD Vance’s old tweets show why the ‘Epstein client list’ is becoming such a problem for Trump

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‘Jeffrey Epstein client list’ doesn’t exist, feds say

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<p>Scott Ruskan, 26, has been praised for his life-saving efforts</p>

Texas Floods

‘Hero’ Coast Guard swimmer credited with saving 165 people from Camp Mystic floods

<p>The response to flash flooding in Texas has been under major scrutiny following the tragic deaths of more than 80 people. But, forecasters say the local National Weather Service offices did all they could</p>

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Ex-forecasters say Texas alerts were as timely as they should’ve been

<p>Texas natives Matthew McConaughey and Hilary Duff have led celebrity tributes to Texas flood victims</p>

Texas Floods

Matthew McConaughey and Hilary Duff lead celebrity tributes to Texas flood victims

<p>CNN correspondent Pamela Brown reports from Camp Mystic in Texas</p>

Texas Floods

CNN anchor who attended Camp Mystic ‘overwhelmed’ visiting deadly site

<p>Blair, 13, and Brook Harber, 11, were among the more than 80 victims who lost their lives in the Texas floods </p>

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Everything we know about Texas flooding victims

<p>Texas Senator Ted Cruz was overseas again when disaster struck the state, but his team said he promptly booked a flight back from Greece to the U.S.</p>

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Ted Cruz was away again when Texas floods hit but returned ‘promptly,’ his team says

<p>Onlookers survey damage along the Guadalupe River after a flash flood swept through the area on July 4 in Kerrville, Texas.</p>

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How Texas Hill Country flood turned deadly in just hours

<p>Grok cited climate change statistics while summarizing a post from Karoline Leavitt on X </p>

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Grok uses climate stats to explain Trump’s post about Texas floods

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Ted Cruz denies National Weather Service cuts contributed to loss of life in Texas floods

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<p>President Donald Trump is again threatening countries with tariffs. It is his latest move in the ever-changing saga of his policies to end the U.S.’s trade deficits. </p>

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Trump’s moving goalposts on tariffs show how hard it will be to win his trade war

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Leading medical bodies sue RFK Jr and HHS over Covid vaccine rollback

<p>Democratic voters are fed up with their representatives taking the moral high ground against President Donald Trump and the GOP</p>

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Democratic voters are demanding reps fight dirty against Trump and MAGA: ‘There needs to be blood’

<p>Donald Trump speaks with reporters over the July 4th weekend, telling them that he received at least another $16 million in free ads as part of the ‘60 Minutes’ settlement.</p>

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Trump claims he struck side deal with Skydance for additional $16 million in ‘60 Minutes’ settlement

<p>During an appearance on Piers Morgan's show this past winter, Trump official Alina Hubba vowed that the administration would soon release "shocking" documents in the Jeffrey Epstein case.</p>

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Piers Morgan calls out Alina Habba for hyping ‘incredibly disturbing’ Epstein files that never materialized

<p>Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy grills White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Pam Bondi's contradictory claims about Jeffrey Epstein's "client list."</p>

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Peter Doocy grills Leavitt on Bondi’s broken Epstein list promise

<p>Laura Loomer railed against Pam Bondi in a string of posts on X after the FBI/DOJ memo on Jeffrey Epstein was released. Loomer claimed Bondi was ‘always lying’ about the files.</p>

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Loomer rips AG Pam Bondi over Epstein files: ‘She was always lying’

<p>Elon Musk has railed against the Trump administration over its handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case and the release of a new FBI memo.</p>

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Musk calls DOJ findings of no Epstein ‘client list’ the ‘final straw’

<p>Donald Trump unveiled a prototype for his ‘Trump card’ that fast tracks legal status for wealthy immigrants in April. Legal experts say it’s likely illegal without any action from Congress</p>

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Trump has promised $5m ‘gold card’ visas. Experts say they’re unlikely to ever happen

<p>Mark Ruffalo and Joe Rogan</p>

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Mark Ruffalo calls out Joe Rogan’s criticism of Trump’s ICE raids: ‘It’s a little late now’

<p>The Trump administration has canceled the visas of hundreds of students and scholars</p>

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Trump taken to court over deportations of pro-Palestinian student protesters

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<p>Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences found that behaviours such as rearing, walking, and hunching in mice are linked to Parkinson's </p>

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How mice are helping detect early signs of Parkinson’s

<p>Juliana Marins died after falling while hiking Indonesia’s Mount Rinjani</p>

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<p>Bob Geldof reflects on 40 years since the creation of Live Aid</p>

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Bob Geldof hailed a ‘genius’ for his Live Aid work in new documentary

Researchers from the University of Oxford are examining how to adapt the vaccine it created for Covid-19 for an unknown disease, also known as Disease X (Alamy/PA)

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<p>Travis Decker, who has spent a month on the run after being named as a suspect in the death of his three daughters, was recently spotted in the Idaho woods, officials say.</p>

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Dad accused of killing his three daughters and spending a month on the run is reportedly spotted in the woods

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Remains of seven victims are recovered after deadly explosion at fireworks warehouse

<p>An Allegiant Air flight was forced to divert over a bomb threat, but no explosives were found</p>

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Flight diverted after recently released psychiatric patient claimed laptop was a bomb

<p>Whitney Purvis’ has been charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection to the overdose death of man in Georgia. She was on the MTV show 16 & Pregnant.</p>

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16 & Pregnant star arrested for involuntary manslaughter in Georgia after ‘providing victim a lethal cocktail of drugs’

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Grimes calls ex Elon Musk’s platform X ‘poison’ and ‘a prison’ in scathing takedown

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Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom spotted on Jeff Bezos’ superyacht days after confirming breakup

<p>Rentals in the U.S. are at a record high as expensive mortgages and high property values leave Americans locked out of the housing market</p>

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Number of first time home buyers hits record low as rentals take over US housing market

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Pearl Jam lose ‘deeply important’ member after 27 years

<p>Jason Leonard Blount, 52, has been arrested in connection with three separate rape cases that occurred more than two decades ago.</p>

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‘Serial rapist’ accused of three attacks more than two decades ago has been arrested

<p>The New York Times has faced backlash over a story on how Zohran Mamdani self-identified on a college application form, with the source of the report being a supporter of white supremacist views.</p>

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Anti-woke activist applauds his ‘friends’ at the New York Times for Zohran Mamdani college application ‘scoop’

<p>Gus and Bruno, a pair of 3-year-old dogs whose former police officer owner, William Bove, died from cancer. The Greenville Humane Society is caring for the dogs and is searching for someone to adopt the brothers together</p>

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Shelter fights to keep dog brothers together after NYPD cop owner dies from cancer

<p>Aaron Phypers has filed for divorce from Denise Richards after six years of marriage</p>

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Denise Richards’ husband files for divorce four months after she said they never would — ‘even if we hate each other’

<p>Nicole Ari Parker as Lisa Todd Wexley on 'And Just Like That'</p>

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And Just Like That fans stunned by continuity error in latest episode

<p>Love scenes from ‘Total Recall’, ‘Cleopatra’, ‘Spider-Man’ and ‘Poetic Justice’ </p>

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<p>Larry Smith, 19, is accused of shooting Myrah Zeigler in the early hours of May 26 outside of a Florida rental property.</p>

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Teen fatally shot outside a Florida Airbnb after party spiraled out of control, cops say

<p>A 13-year-old from Missouri has died in a house fire after beating cancer just weeks before</p>

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Girl, 13, who survived cancer dies in Missouri house fire

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Alex Cooper mercilessly booed at Wrigley Field after rendition of ‘Take Me Out to the Ballgame’

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Three people fighting for their lives and 21 others injured after horror bee attack

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Kids in the US have become increasingly unhealthy over the past 17 years, new study finds

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Scientists find 3,500-year-old city in Peru rivalling Ancient Egypt

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Scarlett Johansson becomes world’s highest-grossing lead actor after Jurassic World Rebirth

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Robert Irwin apologizes after he ‘didn’t realize’ he dined and dashed at popular restaurant

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Succession's Brian Cox hits out at ‘woke nonsense’ after losing temper in rehearsals

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Statue unveiled in Liverpool marking Ringo Starr’s 85th birthday

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Catherine Hardwicke says industry won’t ‘hire more women directors’

<p>Wayne Rooney has been approached about the Macclesfield job (Mike Egerton/PA)</p>

Wayne Rooney ‘lands lucrative Match of the Day punditry deal’

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Michael Douglas says he ‘has no intention’ of acting again

<p>Lauryn Hill performing during the 2025 Essence Festival of Culture on July 4 in New Orleans, Louisiana</p>

Lauryn Hill defended after performing to nearly-empty stadium

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Netflix hidden gem with perfect Rotten Tomatoes score unearthed

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Anne Hathaway broke down on film set over fears she’d ‘hurt’ co-star

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Gogglebox star Emmie Silbery dies after dementia diagnosis, aged 96

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Ed Sheeran shares honest reaction to ‘creepy’ waxwork of himself

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<p>Kate Moss recently released her own Glastonbury-inspired collection for Zara </p>

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A National Sleep Foundation study found that working out within four hours before bedtime had no major impact on sleep quality

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Microbiologist reveals how often you should really wash your bedding

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