Texas finds Camp Mystic’s flood emergency plan deficient for reopening
By Jasper Ward April 24 (Reuters) – Camp Mystic, the Christian summer camp for girls where 27 people died in a 2025 flash flood, cannot be licensed to reopen, Texas authorities said, citing nearly two dozen deficiencies
Miss Indian World pageant winners mark the end of a decades-long tradition
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Codi High Elk was a shy teenager most comfortable caring for horses on her family’s ranch on the Cheyenne River Reservation when she threw away an application to compete in a new pageant
AP photographer Jack Thornell’s iconic images of civil rights and beyond
Former Associated Press photographer Jack Thornell ‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning picture of a shotgun-felled James Meredith looking back toward his would-be assassin on a Mississippi highway in 1966 became an enduring image of the Civil Rights Movement. Thornell
Mississippi middle school students stop bus from crashing after driver blacks out
Quick-thinking middle school students in Mississippi kept their school bus from crashing after their driver passed out while on a four-lane highway. The bus had just left Hancock Middle School in Hancock County on Wednesday with about
US won’t renew Iranian and Russian oil waivers, Bessent says
WASHINGTON (AP) — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Friday that the U.S. does not plan to renew a waiver allowing the purchase of Russian oil and petroleum products that are currently at sea. And, he said, a
Authorities arrest one person and search for another, following deadly shooting at mall in Louisiana
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana authorities have charged a 17-year-old with murder, and they are searching for another suspect after bystanders were caught in the crossfire of a shooting at a mall in Baton Rouge on
Photos show tornado damage that ripped through Oklahoma
ENID, Okla. (AP) — The destruction left by a powerful tornado in the community of Enid includes roofs ripped from homes, flattened commercial buildings and debris scattered across the city. The storm downed utility poles, damaged homes
US considers using Defense Production Act in Spirit Airlines restructuring, source says
By David Shepardson and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, April 24 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is considering using the Defense Production Act as the legal basis to bail out Spirit Airlines, a source told Reuters. CBS
Nation’s first state moratorium on data centers vetoed by Maine’s governor
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s Democratic governor on Friday vetoed what would have been the country’s first state moratorium on the construction of data centers. The bill passed by the Democrat-controlled state legislature would have instituted a
US appeals court allows Texas to enforce migrant arrest law
By Nate Raymond April 24 (Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Friday cleared the way for Texas authorities to enforce a Republican-backed state law that would let them arrest and prosecute people suspected of illegally crossing