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Outrage After Alabama 3-Year-Old Dies in Hot Car While in State’s Care

The boy, who was in foster care, was being transported between a supervised visit and day care, his aunt said. State lawmakers said they were seeking answers and the police were investigating.

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Ke’Torrius Starkes, Jr., 3, died in a hot car while in the care of the state on Tuesday, according to family members and the authorities.
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Thailand and Cambodia Clash in Deadly Border Dispute

At least a dozen people were killed after the two countries exchanged fire after simmering tensions over a border dispute boiled over on Thursday.

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People took shelter in Surin Province, Thailand, after clashes broke out along the disputed border between Thailand and Cambodia on Thursday.
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Gazans Are Dying of Starvation

After 21 months of devastating conflict with Israel, Gaza’s most vulnerable civilians — the young, the old and the sick — are facing what aid groups say is impending famine.

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Yousef, 6, who suffers from cerebral palsy and has severe malnutrition is held by his mother Samah Matar north of Gaza City on Thursday. He weighed 13kg before the war and now weighs 9kg.
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3 Men Who Disappeared While Fishing in the Mississippi River Are Found Dead

The men were last seen on a sandbar south of a boat ramp in Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park, about 13 miles north of Memphis.

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Rescue workers on the Mississippi River near Memphis where the bodies of three men were recovered on Wednesday.
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Plane in Alaska Crash Was Overloaded With Moose Meat and Antlers, N.T.S.B. Says

Investigators have released an inquiry into the fatal crash in a mountainous area, where Eugene Peltola Jr., the husband of former U.S. Representative Mary Peltola, was killed in 2023.
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Death Toll From L.A. Fires Reaches 31 After Remains Are Found

More than six months after the fires, officials determined that another person had died in Altadena.

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Officials determined this week that a 31st person had died in the Los Angeles wildfires. The victim lived in Altadena on a block that had been destroyed.
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Oxygen Machine Played Role in Fire That Killed 10 in Massachusetts, Officials Say

The fire began in a resident’s room in an assisted living facility in Fall River, where investigators found an oxygen machine and “smoking materials.”

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Ten people died and more than two dozen others were injured as a result of a five-alarm fire at Gabriel House, an assisted living center in Fall River, Mass., on July 13, officials said.
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Air India Finds ‘No Issues’ After Inspections of Boeing Fuel Switches

An investigation into a deadly crash last month has focused on control switches that cut off fuel to an Air India Boeing jet after takeoff.

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The crashed Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner aircraft in Ahmedabad, India, last month.
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Bangladesh Mourns After Deadly Plane Crash During School Lunch Break

Nearly all of the 31 killed when the plane crashed were children. Dozens more were being treated as the nation declared a day of mourning.

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Raiyan, 14, a student, received treatment at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital, after suffering injuries when a military jet crashed into a school in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Monday.
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Missouri Man Dies in Dam’s Hydraulics While Trying to Save Trapped Boater

The man jumped into the water to help a boater who had become trapped in the powerful, washing machine-like waters at the base of the dam.

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A low-head dam in Hochatown, Okla. At a similar low-head dam on the Elk River in Noel, Mo., a man died over the weekend after becoming trapped in the dam’s hydraulics while trying to save a boater.
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Landslides and Floods Kill 18 in South Korea

As rescuers search for the missing under the rubble, thousands of evacuated villagers face the daunting task of rebuilding their homes.

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The damage left after torrential rain in Gapyeong, South Korea, on Monday.
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How Did the Number of Missing After Texas Floods Drop So Drastically?

Last week, officials said 97 people were missing in Kerr County. Now, it’s down to three. The drop is substantial, but such wild fluctuations can happen after disasters.

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A memorial for the victims of the floods in Central Texas.
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Passenger Ship Fire Kills at Least 3 People in Indonesia

The fire happened aboard the KM Barcelona 5 in the waters of North Sulawesi Province in Indonesia on Sunday morning, officials said.

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In this photo made from a video released by Indonesia’s rescue agency, a rescue ship approaches the KM Barcelona 5 after it caught fire on Sunday.
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A Push for More Organ Transplants Is Putting Donors at Risk

People across the United States have endured rushed or premature attempts to remove their organs. Some were gasping, crying or showing other signs of life.

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Misty Hawkins’s parents have not touched the bedroom of their daughter, who had a lifelong cognitive disability.
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Fire at Massachusetts Assisted Living Facility Claims a 10th Life

Brenda Cropper, 66, died at a hospital after being in critical condition all week after the fire erupted on Sunday, officials said.

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Ten people died and more than two dozen were injured in a fire on Sunday at the Gabriel House in Fall River, Mass.
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At Least 28 Dead After Tourist Boat Capsizes in Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay

The boat, carrying 46 passengers and three crew members, was on a sightseeing tour of Ha Long Bay when a sudden storm caused it to overturn, state media said. Ten people were rescued.

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A tourist boat capsized on Saturday in Ha Long Bay, in Vietnam’s Quang Ninh Province, northeast of Hanoi.
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Why Are More Than 100 People Still Missing in Texas, 2 Weeks After the Floods?

The number of people unaccounted for dropped this week but remains stubbornly high as some searchers lose hope of finding them.

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Members of the military presented an American flag on Friday to firefighters and relatives of Michael Phillips, the chief of the volunteer fire department in Marble Falls, who is among those missing from the floods.
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Explosion at Los Angeles Training Center Kills 3 Sheriff’s Deputies

It was not immediately clear what caused the blast at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Biscailuz Training Academy center. No one else was injured, officials said.

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Officers monitored a street closure near the site of the explosion in Los Angeles.
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Floods and Heavy Rain Kill Dozens in Pakistan

Relentless rain began on Wednesday, causing flooding in several cities and across vast rural stretches in the province of Punjab.

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A flooded village in northern Pakistan on Thursday.
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Blood in the Streets and Death in the Air: Residents Survey Damage in Syrian City

In the southern city of Sweida, residents describe the aftermath of a wave of sectarian violence.

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Buildings that were burned and looted near Sweida, Syria, on Tuesday.
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Thunderstorms Nearby? How to Stay Safe When Lightning Strikes

Summer is a busy time for lighting strikes, which kill about 20 people and injure many others across the United States each year, officials said.

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“If you’re hearing thunder, it’s time to be inside,” said a meteorologist.
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Israeli Strike on a Gaza Church Kills Three

As cease-fire talks stalled, a deadly strike on a Catholic church in Gaza City prompted Pope Leo XIV to call for an immediate end to the fighting.

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Transporting a person who was injured in the strike on the Holy Family Catholic Church to Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City on Thursday.
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How Two Camp Mystic Cabins Turned Into an Epicenter of Grief in the Texas Floods

The children who lost their lives at Camp Mystic were not scattered through the camp. Almost every one of them was in either the Bubble Inn or Twins cabins, which housed the youngest campers.

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Flash flooding along the Guadalupe River killed 28 campers, counselors and staff at Camp Mystic in Hunt, Texas.
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The Air India Plane Crash Took His ‘Everything’

His son and daughter-in-law brought love to his home and represented the family’s hope for a better life.

Anil Ambalal Patel kissing a photo of his son, Harshit, and his daughter-in-law, Pooja, on the morning of their funeral.
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At Least 20 Killed in Stampede Outside a Gaza Aid Site

There were conflicting accounts from Palestinian and aid officials over what happened at the food distribution hub run by the Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

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Casualties were brought into Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza on Wednesday after a stampede at a food distribution site.
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Oklahoma Farmer Killed by Water Buffaloes He Had Just Bought, Police Say

The farm where Bradley McMichael, 47, died has been in his family for three generations. His fiancée described him as an experienced farmer who had worked with livestock since his teenage years.

Brad McMichael in a photo from social media. The police said he had been fatally attacked by a pair of water buffaloes that he had just purchased and that the animals had kept emergency workers from reaching him.
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Fewer Than 100 Unaccounted For in Texas Flood as Officials Decry ‘Blame Game’

In Kerr County, where the most deaths occurred, officials said they were receiving threats, even as they continued to deflect questions about flood warnings.

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At least 132 people were killed by the July 4 flooding in Central Texas.
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Clashes Between Bedouin and Druse in Syria Kill More Than 50, Health Official and Rights Group Say

The violence underscores the government’s challenge to assert nationwide control as ethnic and religious tensions simmer after the end of the civil war.

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A member of the Syrian security forces walks past a burning car near Al Mazra in Sweida Province on Monday. The violence in the heartland of the Druse community threatens to further exacerbate tensions stemming from the civil war.
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Texan Stoicism Provides Comfort, and Excuses, After the Flood

Texans often draw on the idea of their own self-reliance during times of adversity. Gov. Greg Abbott has used it to deflect tough questions.

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Few states have faced such a wide range of calamities, natural and man-made, as Texas.
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Nine People Killed in Fire at Massachusetts Assisted Living Facility

The fire broke out on Sunday in the city of Fall River, a state official said. More than 30 residents were taken to hospitals.

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Workers entered Gabriel House, an assisted living facility in Fall River, Mass., on Monday.
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Texas Floods Bring Grief and Prayer to Local Churches

At services in the stricken Hill Country and elsewhere, ministers spoke Sunday morning about sorrow and solace, community and hope, as more rain beat down.

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Worshipers at Kerrville Church of Christ heard a sermon on Sunday about how deeply the community had been affected by the July 4 flooding.
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For Families of Air India Crash Victims, Report Brings No Closure

A preliminary assessment in last month’s disaster focusing on fuel being cut to both engines only deepened the mystery for people grieving loved ones.

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Relatives of one of the victims of the Air India plane crash await the arrival of his body at home in Ahmedabad last month.
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Arizona Resident Dies From Plague, Officials Say

The resident died from pneumonic plague, the first such death in Coconino County, Ariz., since 2007, the county said.

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A patient infected with plague went to the Flagstaff Medical Center in Arizona recently and died the same day in its emergency department.
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Timeline Details Final Seconds of Crashed Air India Flight

Investigators released a preliminary account of the crash, describing how the plane struggled after its fuel supply was cut.

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Investigators at the crash site of Air India Flight 171 in Ahmedabad, India, last month.
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Flash Floods Are the ‘Hardest Kind’ of Disaster to Prevent, Experts Say

Scholars and designers of early warning systems say that there are still huge gaps in our ability to predict flash floods and warn those at risk.

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Flood-damaged homes lining the river in Chiva, near Valencia, Spain, in November. A flood alert system was in place but was not immediately activated.
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A Landscape of Death: What’s Left Where Ukraine Invaded Russia

When Ukraine turned a corner of Russia’s Kursk region into a battlefield, it set in motion some of the war’s fiercest fighting. Our photographer documented the aftermath.

Last year, Ukraine turned a corner of Russia into a battlefield. It is now a place of desolation and death.
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Farmworker Dies on Saturday After Fleeing a Raid This Week in Southern California

During an immigration raid on Thursday, a worker fell from a greenhouse at a cannabis farm. A farmworkers union had initially said the worker died on Friday, but a lawyer for the family said the death occurred Saturday afternoon.

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Federal agents blocked people protesting an ICE immigration raid at a licensed cannabis farm on Thursday, near Camarillo, Calif.
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Man Falls to His Death Descending Mountain in Glacier National Park

The man fell from a steep, off-trail climbing route on the west side of Mount Gould, the authorities said.

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Grinnell Peak, flanked by Mount Gould to the left and Mount Wilbur to the right, is reflected on the surface of Swiftcurrent Lake at Glacier National Park in Montana.
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Air India Plane Crash Report Says Fuel to Engines Was Cut Off

A focus on the Boeing 787’s fuel switches in a preliminary assessment raised questions about the pilots’ actions, but much is still unknown about Flight 171.

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Workers removing the airplane’s tail from the wreckage of the Air India crash last month.
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Before the Central Texas Floods, the Owners of Camp Mystic Were a Fixture

For decades, Dick and Tweety Eastland presided over Camp Mystic with a kind of magisterial benevolence that alumni well past childhood still describe with awe.

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Campers’ belongings outside cabins at Camp Mystic, where 27 died in the floods.
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Trump Visits Texas Flood Sites: ‘Hell of a Situation, Isn’t It?’

Mr. Trump and Melania Trump met with victims’ families and viewed some of the aftermath of last weekend’s flooding.

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President Trump toured sites in the area of Kerrville, Texas, that were devastated by extreme flash flooding last weekend.
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