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In Texas, dry years reveal a momentous confrontation as residents encounter the menacing consequence of runaway growth.
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No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. Luke 16:13 (KJV)
You shall not steal; you shall not deal falsely; you shall not lie to one another. Leviticus 19:11 (ESV)
Wealth is treacherous, and the arrogant are never at rest. They open their mouths as wide as the grave, and like death, they are never satisfied. In their greed they have gathered up many nations and swallowed many peoples. Habakkuk 2:5 (NLT)
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In today’s newsletter: Amid at least 129 deaths and billions of dollars of damage, there has been little reckoning about the part global heating and cuts to public services may have played in the disaster
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The July 4th flooding has become the first major disaster to expose the grave effects of Trump’s new food and hunger policies.
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Rescue teams from four states were ready to help Texas respond to the deadly flood last week, but delays from the federal government prevented them from arriving on-scene for a week, CNN reported.
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Visitors and staff at Arizona’s Grand Canyon and Colorado’s Black Canyon national park were evacuated...
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Severe thunderstorms rolled across the Midwest Friday, bringing rounds of damaging wind gusts, torrential rains and even a few reported tornadoes.
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Dick Eastland, the Camp Mystic owner who pushed for flood alerts on the Guadalupe River, was killed in last week’s deadly surge.
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Nine months ago, Hurricane Helene barreled up from the Gulf of Mexico and slammed into the rugged mountains of western North Carolina...
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Community members gathered in Kerrville for a vigil to pray for flood victims and the dozens still missing.
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Multiple states were at risk of seeing severe storms on Thursday, according to the Storm Prediction Center.
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Central NC faces heavy rain and flash flooding risks, with rainfall up to 5 inches in the Triangle area and beyond.
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The 13News Now Weather Impact Team declares an alert for potential flash flooding with slow-moving storms on Thursday.
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Morning downpours caused flooding on several Massachusetts roadways Thursday.
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More than 130 people are dead after devastating flooding in the Texas Hill Country that began early on the Fourth of July.
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U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal is calling for an investigation into the effects of staffing and funding cuts at the agency.
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. insisted he was doing a "good job" controlling a measles outbreak that he said had neared 1,300 cases this year, the most since the disease was eradicated in the country.
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Pfas-laden pesticides and sewage sludge used as fertilizer move into crops and nearby water sources
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Critics are hounding the administration of President Donald Trump for killing $15 million in research on widespread PFAS contamination of U.S. farmland, particularly at a time when poisonous sludge is behind a growing crisis in Maine, where 84 farms have been found to be significantly contaminated...
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Officials in Kerr County, where the majority of the deaths from the July 4 flash floods occurred, have yet to detail what actions they took in the early hours of the disaster.
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Learn about the new technique being used to study cracks that have formed on Antarctica's unstable Doomsday Glacier.
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Russell Vought, President Donald Trump’s Director of the Office of Management and Budget, is defending plans to spend an estimated $1 billion retrofitting an aging luxury 747 jetliner for use as Air Force One—even though it will be in service for only about a year—while also backing deep cuts to discretionary programs, including at the CDC, and in public health, education, housing, and science.
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem launched a furious tirade against CNN Thursday after the network reported she delayed potentially life-saving federal aid during catastrophic Texas flooding that has killed at least 120 people.
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Two of the victims were children. Ruidoso Mayor Lynn Crawford said "our hearts are broken for the families who have lost their loved ones in this terrible tragedy."
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We follow reports as damaging winds and flooding conditions are likely to come from severe storms Wednesday and again on Thursday.
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An unrelenting summer storm brought a deluge of rain to eastern Massachusetts on Thursday morning.
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President Donald Trump wants to cut NASA's budget by 24%, but senators on both sides of the aisle claim that would have devastating consequences on the agency's ability to advance vital scientific research, Bloomberg reported.
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