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WASHINGTON, July 11 (Reuters) - A California farmworker died on Friday from injuries sustained a day earlier when U.S. immigration agents raided a cannabis operation and arrested hundreds of workers, according to a farmworker advocacy group.

Two top executives at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), one of the world’s most powerful management consultancies, have been stripped of their leadership roles following revelations that the company helped model the forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza, a scheme widely condemned as a blueprint for ethnic cleansing.

Federal immigration agents seeking to detain a Honduran landscaper chased him into a Southern California surgical center and quickly found themselves in a tense standoff as clinic staff demanded to see identification and a warrant.

A homeowner in Goodyear, Arizona is locked in a dispute with his homeowner's association over his practice of distributing free cold water from his driveway.

FEMA records show Kerr County officials did not use FEMA’s system to send warnings to phones in the critical hours as the flooding began on July 4.

Climate change is making severe storms both more common and more intense.

PENNSYLVANIA (WOLF) — Fire departments and county emergency centers across Pennsylvania are advising the public of a statewide 911 outage.

Communities in rural parts of Vermont on Friday woke up once again to damaged homes and washed-out roads due to heavy rainfall and flash flooding, making it the third consecutive summer that severe floods have inundated parts of the state.

A new study finds there are 27 million metric tons of invisible plastic particles in the North Atlantic alone.

Neither side has released documentation of the tariff terms, raising questions about whether they did, in fact, reach an agreement.

SINGAPORE: A 48-year-old man was on Thursday (Jul 10) sentenced to six days’ jail and fined S$11,000 (US$8,600) for illegally modifying three motorcycles’ exhausts.

The agency took the unusual step of creating websites debunking the conspiracy theory that chemicals are being sprayed in the sky to control the weather or do other things.

Federal agents clashed with protesters during an immigration raid at a farm in Southern California, one of at least two large-scale raids in the region on Thursday.

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Afatwa, or religious decree, issued by senior Iranian clerics calling for the assassination of U.S. President Donald Trump has attracted online funding worth tens of millions of dollars, reports say.

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Justin Mohn reportedly described a struggle between himself and Michael Mohn when the younger man told his father that he was placing him under a "citizen's arrest."

The US state department has announced that it plans to move forward with mass layoffs as part of the most significant restructuring of the country’s diplomatic corps in decades. Officials say the cuts will align their mission with Donald Trump’s vision of America first.

By anti-government, they mean opposed to the idea that government can do positive things for people, not opposed to the current government.

This just in: criminal with a history of using the courts as a weapon is bruised by the courts.

A federal judge agreed Thursday to issue a new nationwide block against President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship.

In opposition to the Temp Act, farm industry memo claims that Caribbean and Latino immigrants would “feel very comfortable working in New York in the summertime.”

I also don’t know how to make the charges to my credit card stop because other parts of the (since updated) website also return errors and the customer service number I called on the website couldn’t help either.

A US racist and neo-fascist hate group that has become a public fixture in recent years has descended on central Texas in a stunt it claims is part of the “disaster relief” efforts under way after the devastating flash floods hit the region last week.

At 4:22 a.m. on Friday, as Texas' Hill Country began to flood, a firefighter in Ingram – just upstream from Kerrville – asked the Kerr County Sheriff's Office to alert nearby residents, according to audio obtained by ABC affiliate KSAT. But Kerr County officials took nearly six hours to heed this call.

As temperatures soared on a sweltering July day in New York City, shoppers at Queens’s largest mall said they were feeling the heat – of rising prices.

High levels of Pfas stemming from the base have tainted water, damaged crops and poisoned cows in the area

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents last month arrested the most people in at least five years, but deportations are still lagging far behind what Donald Trump has promised — and even behind those in the Obama administration, according to data obtained by NBC News.

Maya Hernandez, 20, is facing charges of involuntary manslaughter and child cruelty

Soldiers with skin conditions like razor bumps will no longer be granted permanent medical waivers that allow them to grow beards and could be kicked out of the Army if they are not clean shaven.

The Trump administration announced on Wednesday it was issuing sanctions against an independent official tasked with investigating human rights abuses in the Palestinian territories, the latest effort by the United States to punish critics of Israel’s 21-month war in Gaza.

If Arpineh Masihi could vote, she would have cast her ballot for Donald Trump. She's a devout supporter of the US president – even now that she's locked up as an illegal immigrant.

The Trump administration is reportedly planning to cut at least 2,145 high-ranking Nasa employees with specialized skills or management responsibilities.

As monstrous floodwaters surged across central Texas late last week, officials at the Federal Emergency Management Agency leapt into action, preparing to deploy critical search and rescue teams and life-saving resources, like they have in countless past disasters.

Edit: another article about the same incident: https://abcnews.go.com/US/10-arrested-after-ambush-texas-ice-detention-facility/story?id=123555164

Web browser will include chat interface, enable AI agent integrations

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At least 2,145 senior-ranking NASA employees are set to leave under a push to shed staff, according to documents obtained by POLITICO — potentially spelling trouble for White House space policy and depriving the agency of decades of experience.

Mr. Bedford rankled Democrats last month when he would not commit to holding all commercial pilots to a federal requirement to complete 1,500 hours of training, a standard he had criticized as the chief of Republic Airways, a regional airline.

Not surprised, just disappointed. We went from the most pro consumer WH to what is shaping up to be the worst WH for consumer rights in my lifetime.

A judge ordered Mike Lindell's lawyers to pay $3000 each in fines for using AI to create court documents. The documents contained mistakes, including errors when quoting cases and citations to non-existent cases.

Shocker. Grok goes full nazi and that is the final nail.

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