State Superintendent Ryan Walters announced a mandate Monday for districts to immediately submit new budgets to pay for all students’ school meals.
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The State Department is warning U.S. diplomats of attempts to impersonate Secretary of State Marco Rubio and possibly other officials using technology driven by artificial intelligence.
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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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A Russian official named Roman Starovoit acted as the Kremlin's Transportation Minister was reported dead hours after Putin fired him. Officials say he died by suicide.
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When U.S. Senators return to work July 7th, they'll have eleven days to decide whether public media stations can keep appropriated federal funding or take it back.
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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.
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One Guadalupe River gauge near Kerrville and Camp Mystic recorded a rise of more than 25 feet in two hours.
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Electronics and back-to-school supplies are expected to top many shoppers' lists.
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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.
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Plus: a new novel from Gary Shteyngart, a true story of a shipwreck, and a memoir from a wrongly incarcerated inmate who was exonerated after 28 years behind bars.
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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.