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A frantic search for survivors is under way in central Texas after flash floods killed at least 32 people, including 14 children. Many were asleep when the Guadalupe River rose more than 26 ft (8m) in less than an hour in the early hours of Friday.Officials in Kerr County have said 27 children are missing from a Christian youth camp located along the river. Some 850 people were rescued.Weather forecasts suggest that more rain and, potentially, more flooding could be on the horizon for the area.Among the areas most severely hit by the floods were mobile homes, summer camps and…
New York CNN — Few women will be surprised to learn that even when wives earn about the same as their husbands or more, a new Pew Research Center study finds that they still spend more time on housework and child care, while their husbands spend more time on paid work and leisure. “Even as financial contributions have become more equal in marriages, the way couples divide their time between paid work and home life remains unbalanced,” Pew noted. So who’s earning what? Pew found that in 29% of heterosexual marriages today, women and men earn about the same (roughly…
The federal government is offering real estate investors an unusual opportunity — the chance to buy a historic courthouse and office building in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. The landmark U.S. Courthouse built in the 1930s on Spring Street near City Hall has been slated for “accelerated disposition” by the General Services Administration as part of a plan to sell off obsolete and underutilized federal properties. “The GSA is focused on rightsizing the federal real estate portfolio to reduce the burden on the American taxpayer,” the federal agency that manages government buildings says on its website. The Trump administration…
Sam GruetBusiness reporterGetty ImagesAirlines in the US alone made $7.27bn from check-in luggage fees last yearWith Air Canada and Southwest the latest airlines to charge passengers for check-in luggage, the ballooning cost of such ancillary or “junk fees” is provoking anger among politicians and consumer groups. At the same time, sales of suitcases small enough for passengers to take on the plane as hand luggage are booming.Standing outside Toronto’s downtown airport, Lauren Alexander has flown over from Boston for the weekend. She describes such additional charges as “ridiculous”.”It feels like a trick,” says the 24-year-old. “You buy the ticket, you…
Elon Musk says he is launching a new political party, weeks after a dramatic falling out with US President Donald Trump.The billionaire announced on his social-media platform X that he had set up the America Party and billed it as a challenge to the Republican and Democratic two-party system.However, it is unclear whether the party has been formally registered with US election authorities, and Musk has not provided details about who will lead it or what form it will take.He first raised the prospect of launching a party during his public feud with Trump, which saw him leave his role…
CNN — A Tennessee Air National Guardsman is facing charges after applying to be a hitman on a spoof “rent-a-hitman” website, according to the Department of Justice. Josiah Ernesto Garcia, 21, was charged Thursday after submitting an employment inquiry to the website rentahitman.com, which is a parody site that includes “testimonials” from purportedly satisfied hit-man customers. The website was originally created in 2005 to “advertise a cyber security startup company,” the Justice Department said in a news release. “The company failed and over the next decade it received many inquiries about murder-for-hire services.” Garcia indicated in February that he had…
Southern California home prices are barely budging. In April, the average home price across the six-county Southern California region rose 0.4% from March to $884,981, according to data from Zillow. Compared with April 2024, values are up only 0.7%.Economists and real estate agents say a variety of factors are putting a lid on home prices, including high mortgage rates, rising inventory levels and economic uncertainty stemming from tariffs. Annual price growth of less than a 1% represents a sharp slowdown from where the market was a year ago. In April 2024, prices were up 9% from April 2023. If the…
Chris BaraniukTechnology ReporterDrone show opens Glastonbury Festival in 2024The wedding ceremony was almost over when newlywed Bobby Underwood stepped on a napkin-covered glass to break it, as is Jewish tradition, and everyone shouted “Mazel Tov!”.But as he and his new wife Siobhan turned to walk back down the aisle, their wedding officiants said, “Wait.” There was a surprise.”All of these drones started rising up,” recalls Mrs Underwood. “It was honestly remarkable, very overwhelming – and incredibly emotional for us.”Around 300 drones appeared in the night sky, displaying lights of various colours, and forming images chosen to represent the bride and…
Colombian police have arrested the alleged mastermind of the assassination attempt against a presidential hopeful during a rally last month. Miguel Uribe, a conservative senator, was twice shot in the head in the capital, Bogotá, as he was campaigning for his party’s nomination in the 2026 presidential election.Police arrested a suspected criminal, Élder José Arteaga Hernandez, who they say persuaded a 15-year-old to carry out the attack. Four other people had already been arrested, including the teenager charged with shooting Uribe. Uribe remains in a critical condition. The motive for the attempt on his life on 7 June is unclear.Colombian…
CNN — Shares of Google-parent Alphabet fell more than 3% in early trading Monday after a report sparked concerns that its core search engine could lose market share to AI-powered rivals, including Microsoft’s Bing. Last month, Google employees learned that Samsung was weighing making Bing the default search engine on its devices instead of Google’s search engine, prompting a “panic” inside the company, according to a report from the New York Times, citing internal messages and documents. (CNN has not reviewed the material.) In an effort to address the heightened competition, Google is said to be developing a new AI-powered…