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More than an estimated $118 million in federal K-12 funding has been withheld from Arizona schools. Arizona's Mark Kelly and Greg Stanton are demanding the funds be released.
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In Kerr County, Texas, people say they're eager to help their neighbors who have lost everything due to flooding. The community has found a gathering place in a local church.
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The search for missing people in central Texas continues. Volunteers from the United Cajun Navy have traveled from the state of Louisiana to help.
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The flash flooding in Texas hit Kerr County the hardest. More than 80 people died and the number is feared to increase as crews reach decimated areas of the Guadalupe River.
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Conspiracy theories have swirled around disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein since his death in a federal lockup in 2019. On Monday, a department released a memo that reaffirmed previous conclusions.
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who was appointed to the court by President Biden, dissented. -
One Guadalupe River gauge near Kerrville and Camp Mystic recorded a rise of more than 25 feet in two hours. -
Electronics and back-to-school supplies are expected to top many shoppers' lists. -
The Hotel Oloffson in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince, long a haven for artists and writers, poets and presidents, a symbol of Haiti's troubled politics and its storied past, has been destroyed by gangs. -
For nearly twenty years, most air travelers in the U.S. have been required to remove their shoes when going through security. That requirement has ended. -
Emergency responders kept hope alive as they combed through fallen trees and other debris that littered hard-hit central Texas communities on the fifth day after devastating floods killed more than 100. -
In an unprecedented move, India held the water treaty in abeyance after blaming Pakistan for a deadly attack in April. Pakistan denies involvement in the attack and accuses India of "weaponizing water." -
Since 1954, an IRS rule had barred houses of worship from explicitly endorsing political candidates.
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