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KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — Camp Mystic says it is “grieving the loss” of 27 campers and counselors as the search continued Monday for victims of catastrophic Texas flooding over the Fourth of July holiday weekend.

KERRVILLE, Texas (AP) — Families sifted through waterlogged debris Sunday and stepped inside empty cabins at Camp Mystic, an all-girls summer camp ripped apart by flash floods that washed homes off their foundations and killed at least 82 people in central Texas.

A small-town grandmother who disappeared on her way to work. A beloved director of a Texas summer camp for girls. An Alabama elementary student away from home. These are a few of the dozens of victims lost in devastating flooding in Texas.

Paramount has agreed to pay $16 million to settle a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump over the editing of CBS' “ 60 Minutes” interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris in October.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans passed President Donald Trump’s big tax breaks and spending cuts bill Tuesday on the narrowest of margins, pushing past opposition from Democrats and their own GOP ranks after a turbulent overnight session.

NASHVILLE (BP) – Thousands took part in more than 200 demonstrations nationwide Saturday, June 28, calling on Congress to defund Planned Parenthood. Defund Day gathered pro-life advocates to protest the nearly $800 million in federal money given annually to Planned Parenthood, an organization that provides nearly 40 percent of the nation’s abortions. The event was sponsored by Live Action.

WASHINGTON (AP) — An investigation by a federal task force formally found that Harvard University tolerated antisemitism — a step that could jeopardize all of Harvard's federal funding, including federal student aid.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department announced criminal charges Monday in a scheme by North Korea to fund its weapons program through the salaries of remote information technology workers employed unwittingly by U.S. companies.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — As a wildfire began to sow panic in a small northern Idaho mountain community, a group of firefighters who rushed to put out the blaze instead found themselves in an unexpected shootout.

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Tennessee’s law banning gender-transition procedures for minors, ruling 6–3 that the statute does not violate the Constitution’s equal protection clause.

A listeria food poisoning outbreak that has killed three people and led to one pregnancy loss is linked to newly recalled heat-and-eat chicken fettuccine alfredo products sold at Kroger and Walmart stores, federal health officials said.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Downtown Los Angeles businesses hoped customers would return quickly on Tuesday after Mayor Karen Bass lifted a curfew she had imposed last week in the wake of vandalism and break-ins during riots against Federal immigration enforcement.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider an appeal from First Choice Women’s Resource Centers, which wants to block a 2023 subpoena from Democratic New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin seeking information about the crisis pregnancy center's donors, advertisements, and medical personnel. It has not yet been enforced.

WASHINGTON (BP) – The Supreme Court has ordered New York courts to reconsider some of their previous decisions in light of the High Court’s ruling in the Wisconsin Catholic Charities case earlier this month.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The man accused of killing a Minnesota lawmaker and wounding another went to the homes of two other legislators on the night of the shootings, intending to inflict more carnage against those on his hit list, a federal prosecutor said Monday.

Flash flooding caused by torrential rains killed five people in northern West Virginia, and rescue crews were searching for three other people who were missing Sunday as authorities assessed damage to roads, bridges, natural gas lines, and other infrastructure.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Masses of demonstrators packed into streets, parks, and plazas across the United States on Saturday to protest President Donald Trump, marching through downtowns and small towns, blaring anti-authoritarian chants mixed with support for protecting democracy and immigrant rights. Violence broke out between authorities and protesters in Los Angeles and Portland, Ore.

BELLE PLAINE, Minn. (AP) — The man suspected of killing a Minnesota lawmaker and wounding another crawled to officers in surrender Sunday after they located him in the woods near his home, bringing an end to a massive, nearly two-day search that put the entire state on edge.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday temporarily blocked a federal judge’s order that directed President Donald Trump to return control of National Guard troops to California after he deployed them there following riots in Los Angeles over immigration enforcement.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police swiftly enforced a downtown curfew, making arrests moments after it took effect, while deploying officers on horseback and using crowd control projectiles to break up a group of hundreds demonstrating against President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, has vetoed a proposal that would have banned teaching antisemitism at the state’s public K-12 schools, universities, and colleges and exposed educators who violate the new rules to discipline and lawsuits.

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver was indicted Tuesday on federal charges alleging she assaulted and interfered with immigration officers outside a New Jersey detention center while Newark’s mayor was being arrested after he tried to join a congressional oversight visit at the facility.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Riots that sprang up in Los Angeles over immigration enforcement raids and prompted President Donald Trump to mobilize National Guard troops and Marines have begun to spread across the country, with more planned into the weekend.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Another 2,000 National Guard troops, along with 700 Marines, are headed to Los Angeles on orders from President Donald Trump, to protect federal buildings from rioters angry over Trump's stepped-up enforcement of immigration laws. 

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom said he planned to file a lawsuit Monday against President Donald Trump in response to the administration's deployment of the National Guard to confront violent immigration protesters who took to the streets in Los Angeles.

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