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Crosses hang on a wall with flood marks at Camp Mystic in the aftermath of deadly flooding in Kerr County on July 7.

Girls as young as 7 were startled awake by flooding that devastated their beloved Camp Mystic. How the deadly tragedy unfolded

By Dalia Faheid, Pamela Brown, CNN (CNN) — The emergency weather alert had come early Fourth of July morning: There would be life-threatening flash flooding in Kerr County, Texas. And Camp Mystic – an all-girls Christian camp situated along the Guadalupe River – housed about 750 campers on the flood-prone site as heavy rains started

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Taiwan is held up as a bastion of liberal values. But migrant workers report abuse, injury and death in its fishing industry

By Eric Cheung, CNN Taipei, Taiwan (CNN) — Silwanus Tangkotta was working aboard a Taiwanese fishing boat in the remote Pacific last year, when a heavy wave slammed a rolling metal door onto his hand, crushing his middle and ring fingers. The Indonesian migrant fisherman needed medical attention, but the captain refused to return to

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Palestinian-American beaten to death by Israeli settlers in occupied West Bank, another man shot dead, health ministry says

By Kareem Khadder, Kareem El Damanhoury, Jennifer Hansler, Eugenia Yosef and Abeer Salman, CNN (CNN) — Israeli settlers killed a 20-year-old Palestinian-American man in the West Bank, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health and an eyewitness, as settler violence against Palestinians ramps up in the occupied territory. Twenty-year-old Sayfollah Musallet “was martyred after being

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A demonstrator kneels Thursday before federal agents in a farm field during an immigration raid in Camarillo

Tensions are rising in Southern California over immigration raids. Here’s what we know

By Michelle Krupa, Elizabeth Wolfe, Norma Galeana, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — After weeks of chaotic immigration raids in public and at workplaces across Southern California, a judge has granted a temporary restraining order in a lawsuit, requiring federal authorities to find “reasonable suspicion” to make immigration arrests in California’s central district, including Los Angeles,

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Michael McCown

Camp Mystic’s ‘littlest souls’ were nurtured in Bubble Inn. All the cabin’s girls and 2 counselors were lost in the Texas flood

By Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — What looked like a simple, one-story beige cabin near the banks of the Guadalupe River held the stories of generations of young girls marking a rite of passage. It’s where shy, homesick 8-year-olds entered as strangers and emerged as confident young ladies equipped with new skills from the great

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Michael McCown

Camp Mystic’s ‘littlest souls’ were nurtured in Bubble Inn. All the cabin’s girls and 2 counselors were lost in the Texas flood

CNN By Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — What looked like a simple, one-story beige cabin near the banks of the Guadalupe River held the stories of generations of young girls marking a rite of passage. It’s where shy, homesick 8-year-olds entered as strangers and emerged as confident young ladies equipped with new skills from the

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