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The Latest: 07/07/2025 03:59am ET

Jul 07, 20254 min
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All the latest national and international news. Topics also include finance, weather and entertainment.

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This is your twenty four to seven use update the latest use this hour at just four minutes.

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A severe flooding continues to impact Central Texas. A summer camp where multiple people are still unaccounted for says the search will continue. Camp Mystic said in a statement late Sunday that it's continuing to work with local and state authorities in the search for at least ten missing girls. The summer camp is located near the community of Hunt, which has a location on the flooded Guadalupe River. Flash flooding has killed at least eighty people across Central Texas.

President Trump is slamming Elon Musk's announcement that he's starting a third party. Mark Mayfield reports.

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Well slammed the idea on Sunday, saying it's always been a two party system.

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I think it's ridiculous to start a third party.

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We have a tremendous success with the Republican Party. The Democrats have.

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Lost their way, but it's always been a two party system.

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He added he felt it only adds confusion and that third parties had never worked. The tech billionaire announced the America Party on cent claiming when it comes to bankrupting our country with waste and graft. We live in a one party system, not a democracy. Musk was a vocal critic of Trump's Big Beautiful Bill, which was signed it to law Friday.

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A Marknefield Republican lawmakers are celebrating that Big Beautiful Bill. In an interview with Fox News Sunday, House Speaker Mike Johnson said the bill will be a step up for everyday Americans.

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The average American, the typical American household will have thirteen thousand dollars more in take home pay.

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This is a great thing for people who go to work every day.

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They're going to feel that.

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Johnson added that the legislation will deliver on the administration's American First agenda. Top Democrats posted their reactions on social media, with Senator Chuck Schumer calling the new bill a betrayal of US citizens. A study published in the health journal Food and Function found that eating eggs may be beneficial to your health. The study followed close to nineteen thousand adults and discovered that those who ate one point five eggs a day had stronger bones than those who didn't

eed eggs. Those who ate eggs on a regular basis showed a seventy two percent higher but own density at the femur in eighty three percent higher bone density at the spine. I'm Tammy Trhiello. Pope Leo is offering prayers for the victims and families affected by the flooding disaster in Texas. More from Lisa Carton, speaking in English. The Bontiff addressed the crowd in Saint Peter's Square on Sunday.

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Would like to express sincere condolences to all the families who have lost loved ones in the disaster caused by the flooding of the Guadalupe River in Texas.

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In the United States, children and a camp counselor were still missing after flash floods struck central Texas in the early hours of July fourth. I'm Lisa Carton.

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The measles outbreak that begin earlier this year in an unvaccinated community in West Texas has become the worst since the disease was declared eradicated twenty five years ago. Data from the Center for Outbreak Response Innovation at John Hopkins University shows there have been nearly thirteen hundred confirmed cases of measles so far this year, that exceeds the previous peak for all of twenty nineteen. The outbreak has led to one hundred and fifty five people being hospitalized in

three confirmed deaths. There's data from an organization based in Washington State showing that sixty six UFOs have been spotted in the skies over at New York so far this year. That story from Sarah le Kessler.

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There are reports of everything from zigzagging green orbs and white flying saucers chased by helicopters. The reports include sightings filed by people looking skyward in New York City, Long Island, and in upstate towns. They're documented by the National UFO Reporting Council, not independently verified. The council says over the past thirty years, there have been sixty two hundred UFO sightings in New York. I'm Sarah Lee Kessler.

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The Louisville Zoo is losing one of its longtime family members, Cecil the Gorilla is moving out west to a one acre habitat at the San Francisco Zoo. Cecil has called Kentucky home for the past twenty one years. This move will give him a chance to lead his own Gorilla family group, which includes three females. The move is part of the gorilla species survival Plan, which identified Cecil as a candidate for leadership. I'm Tammy Truhio.

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