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Search efforts continue for a fourth day as a girls' summer camp confirms 27 children and staff are dead, with five campers ...

Mexican officials have sent a rescue team to Texas to assist in the search and rescue efforts following devastating floods that killed dozens of people over the Independence Day weekend.

GOP Sen. Ted Cruz was on a pre-planned vacation in Greece with his family when devastating floods hit central Texas, and he sought to travel back “as fast as humanly possible,” his office said in a ...