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  1. Rescuers, parents scramble to find missing summer campers in wake of deadly Texas flood

    Officials comb through the banks of the Guadalupe River.

    Texas parents frantically posted photos of their young daughters on social media with pleas for information as at least 23 campers from an all-girls summer camp were unaccounted for Friday after floods tore through central Texas overnight.

  2. Ukraine says it struck an airbase in Russia amid Moscow's stepped-up drone barrage on Kyiv

    A fiery explosion in Kyiv

  3. Hamas says it's given 'positive' response to U.S. ceasefire proposal, but more talks needed

    Smoke rises from Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip.

    Hamas says it has given a “positive” response to the latest proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza but said further talks were needed on implementation.

  4. Fentanyl seizures are up at the U.S. northern border — but Canada is still a very small player

    U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers search vehicles with the help of a canine at the Peace Bridge Port of Entry in Buffalo, N.Y. on Tuesday, May 23, 2023. U.S. border agents used helicopters and a fixed-wing airplane to round up 124 people earlier this year along the Canada-U.S. border.

    The latest data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows an uptick in the amount of fentanyl seized near the American northern border with Canada — but the quantities intercepted remain a tiny fraction of what's coming from Mexico.

  5. How Canada could boost disease surveillance to make up for U.S. health cuts

    A hand with a purple glove holding a jar of dirty water to the light against a blue sky

    With measles outbreaks, avian influenza and syphilis and HIV on the rise, Canada needs to strengthen its disease surveillance systems as cuts to U.S. health institutions threaten access to crucial monitoring data, experts say in an editorial published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.