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The thunder and lighting came to Camp Mystic first, but that was normal.The storm and the driving rain at the Texas camp woke up some of the campers, including Georgia and Eloise Jones, at about 1 a.m. on July 4.At first the pair thought nothing of it, they told ABC News. After all, it had been raining on and off for days.”I mean, it rains a lot there, so we thought it was just normal,” Georgia said.Georgia and Eloise Jones, who were at Camp Mystic, in the Texas Hill Country, on July 4, 2025, talk with ABC News about the…
Shimla: To address the acute shortage of trained technical staff in various health institutions impacting the delivery of healthcare services, the state govt has decided to enhance the number of seats for technician courses after nearly 23 years.The installation of modern machinery in healthcare institutions requires trained manpower, and the state govt decision aims to provide quality healthcare services to the people of the state, said a govt spokesperson.The govt has enhanced the seat capacity for providing training in courses like BSc medical laboratory technique; BSc radio and imaging, BSc anaesthesia and operation theatre technique from 10 each to 50…
Two people died when huge rocks fell on their vehicle in Guatemala, after dozens of earthquakes were recorded in a matter of hours, authorities said.The two men killed were traveling in a pickup truck on a local road in the department of Escuintla Tuesday when the rocks fell from a hillside onto the vehicle, firefighters said.More than 37 earthquakes and aftershocks with magnitudes ranging from 3.0 to 5.6 were reported in Guatemala Tuesday afternoon, said Edwin Rodas, director of the National Institute for Seismology, Vulcanology, Meteorology and Hydrology.The tremors were felt as far away as El Salvador and resulted in…
ANKARA, Turkey — A Turkish court ordered Wednesday a ban on access to Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok from Turkey, after the platform allegedly disseminated content insulting to Turkey’s president and others.The chatbot, developed by Musk’s company xAI, posted vulgarities against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, his late mother and personalities, while responding to users’ questions on the X social media platform, the pro-government A Haber news channel reported. Offensive responses were also directed toward modern Turkey’s founder, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, other media outlets said.That prompted the Ankara public to file for the imposition of restrictions under Turkey’s internet…
Just two days before devastating floods claimed at least 27 lives at Camp Mystic, the Texas Department of State Health Services signed off on the youth camp’s emergency plans, according to records obtained by ABC News.An inspection report dated July 2 indicates that state inspectors noted the camp had emergency plans “in case of a disaster” in place and that staff and volunteers were briefed on the plans during training sessions and volunteer briefings.A woman sorts through clothing and campers belongings outside cabins at Camp Mystic along the Guadalupe River in Hunt, Texas, on July 8, 2025, after severe flash…
A Texas man whose parents were swept away during last week’s catastrophic flooding last week says he’s coming to terms with their likely loss, even as he helps others find closure.Robert Brake Jr. has been searching for his parents since the early hours of July 4, when rushing floodwaters carried away their cabin at the HTR campground in Kerrville, Texas.His parents, Robert Leroy Brake Sr. and Joni Kay Brake, were among those caught in the deadly flash floods that have claimed at least 108 lives across central Texas.Family continues desperate search after devastating Texas floods.ABC News”My folks got washed away…
A man and two children were killed in a record-breaking flash flood that swept through a village in New Mexico on Tuesday, local officials said.The three were “swept downstream by the unprecedented floodwaters that struck” the Village of Ruidoso, village officials said in a statement. More than 50 others were rescued by emergency crews, the village said.In this image taken from video, a house is carried away by flash flooding behind a house in Ruidoso, N.M., Tuesday, July 8, 2025.Kaitlyn Carpenter via AP”Our hearts are broken for the families who have lost their loved ones in this terrible tragedy,” Mayor…
Just weeks ago, President Donald Trump said he wanted to begin “phasing out” the Federal Emergency Management Agency after this hurricane season to “wean off of FEMA” and “bring it down to the state level.”But after months of promises to overhaul or eliminate the federal agency charged with responding to disasters, Trump and his administration are touting a fast and robust federal response to the devastating Texas floods. In doing so, they are aligning more closely with a traditional model of disaster response — and less with the dramatic reform the president has proposed.The president approved Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s…
Swarms of “lovebugs” are back in South Korea, blanketing a mountain peak, entering houses and sticking to car windows. Source link
Elon Musk’s plan to create a new political party puts him in the company of a long line of business and political titans looking to upend the two-party system that has dominated U.S. politics since almost the beginning.From the Anti-Masonic Party in the early 1800s to last year’s ill-fated No Labels, nascent political parties have been a near-constant feature of U.S. politics. Some are impactful, others ephemeral, but few endure for long.Though the Republican and Democratic parties have had a lock on political power since the Civil War, they have remade themselves over and over, often when faced with the…