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Top News Stories for Tuesday, July 8th 2025
Monday, Jul 7th, 2025 -
At least 27 campers and counselors from Camp Mystic in Texas have died in devastating flash flooding that swept through the region, the camp announced Monday. At least 104 people have died in the flooding that struck Texas Hill Country on Friday. During a news conference Monday morning, Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha said 10 campers and one counselor were still unaccounted for as search and rescue ...
Source: aol.com
Monday, Jul 7th, 2025 -
Tesla's stock has fallen in early-hours trading, as an analyst warned investors were feeling a "sense of exhaustion" about CEO Elon Musk continuing to devote time to politics . Tesla shares slumped almost 7% in premarket trading Monday, recovering somewhat to be around 6.5% down at 9.05 a.m. ET. At the weekend, Musk announced the formation of a new political party, the day after Donald Trump signed his Big ...
Source: businessinsider.com
Monday, Jul 7th, 2025 -
Lawsuit takes aim at RFK Jr's decision to advise against Covid vaccines for pregnant women and healthy children A pregnant physician who was denied a Covid-19 vaccine is suing the Trump administration alongside a group of leading doctors associations, charging that the administration sought to "desensitize the public to anti-vaccine and anti-science rhetoric", according to their attorney. The lawsuit specifically ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Jul 7th, 2025 -
A 27-year-old man with a rifle and tactical gear was killed Monday morning after exchanging fire with law enforcement officers at a Border Patrol facility in McAllen, Texas, injuring several. A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said the man "opened fire at the entrance of the United States Border Patrol sector annex" and "Border Patrol agents and local police helped neutralize the shooter." The DHS ...
Source: cnn.com
Monday, Jul 7th, 2025 -
Over more than two months the court heard details of a meal of beef wellingtons that contained death cap mushrooms and killed three The triple murder trial of Australia's mushroom lunch cook has attracted worldwide fascination and intense media attention for months. After seven days of deliberations, a supreme court jury found Erin Patterson , 50, guilty of murdering her parents-in-law, Don and Gail Patterson, and ...
Source: theguardian.com
Monday, Jul 7th, 2025 -
(Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will make two-thirds fewer employee cuts this fiscal year than it first targeted, reducing staff by about 30,000 people rather than 80,000, the agency said on Monday. The agency employed about around 480,000 people at the start of the Trump administration and expects to end the fiscal year in September with nearly 450,000 staff. Under President 's program to ...
Source: news.yahoo.com
Monday, Jul 7th, 2025 -
A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a provision of President Donald Trump's sweeping domestic policy law to defund Planned Parenthood's health care services. The order from US District Judge Indira Talwani, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, blocks the provision's enforcement for 14 days. The measure would bar Medicaid users from coverage with a health ...
Source: cnn.com
Sunday, Jul 6th, 2025 -
Heavy rain is predicted across portions of the coastal plain of the Carolinas through Monday. Two to 4 inches, with local amounts up to 6 inches, is expected. Tropical Storm Chantal moved inland Sunday morning bringing rain and flood threats after striking the Carolina coast with 50 mph winds. As of the National Hurricane Center's 8 a.m. advisory, the center of the storm was located about 15 miles northwest of ...
Source: tampabay.com