US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump visited Central Texas on Friday to survey the devastation caused by the deadly flooding last week, as first responders and family members continue their search for the missing. The death toll in the state stands at 121, while more than 170 people are still missing. The president met with families of the victims and expressed the “anguish of our entire nation.” “We just visited with incredible families that, I mean look, they’ve been devastated. They lost their child or two children. And, just hard to believe. I’ve never seen anything like it, a little narrow river that becomes a monster, and that’s what happened. But the first lady and I are here in Texas to express the love and support and the anguish of our entire nation in the aftermath of this really horrific and deadly flood.”&nbsp;Trump met with local officials and first responders in Kerrville, Texas, as the death toll in the state stands at 121, according to local law enforcement and Gov. Greg Abbott.The Trumps, along with Abbott, greeted first responders while standing before a Kerrville firetruck and a pile of felled trees before joining officials at a roundtable discussion.&nbsp;

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More than 170 people are still missing after the deadly flash floods hit the region in the early morning of July 4. Drones, rescue teams, and volunteers are combing through debris, hoping to find answers for the families of the missing. The majority of the confirmed deaths took place in Kerr County, where the Trumps are visiting.At least 27 campers and counsellors died at Camp Mystic, a girls’ summer camp with cabins along the river in a rural part of Kerr County near Hunt, in what the camp described as “catastrophic flooding”. Some survivors said they woke up to water rushing through the windows.&nbsp;The president and the first lady were accompanied by Texas Republican Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, members of his Cabinet and other Texas lawmakers.&nbsp;“It’s a horrible thing, a horrible thing,” the president told reporters Friday before leaving the White House. “Nobody can even believe it. That much water, that fast.”&nbsp;<h2>‘This is a hundred-year catastrophe,’ says Trump</h2>&nbsp;Trump has so far avoided assigning blame for the deaths, saying on Sunday, “I would just say this is a hundred-year catastrophe, and it’s just so horrible to watch.”&nbsp;Since the deadly flash floods in Texas, Trump has remained conspicuously silent about his promises to do away with the federal agency in charge of disaster relief.&nbsp;The Washington Post said in a report on Friday that the Trump administration has backed away from plans to abolish the Federal Emergency Management Agency, but officials continued to dodge questions about the agency’s future and many are still calling for serious reforms, potentially sending much of its work to the states.

More than 170 people are still missing after the deadly flash floods hit the region in the early morning of July 4. Drones, rescue teams, and volunteers are combing through debris, looking for the missing. The majority of confirmed deaths took place in Kerr County.

US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump visited Central Texas on Friday to survey the devastation caused by the deadly flooding last week, as first responders and family members continue their search for the missing. The death toll in the state stands at 121, while more than 170 people are still missing. The president met with families of the victims and expressed the “anguish of our entire nation.” “We just visited with incredible families that, I mean look, they’ve been devastated. They lost their child or two children. And, just hard to believe. I’ve never seen anything like it, a little narrow river that becomes a monster, and that’s what happened. But the first lady and I are here in Texas to express the love and support and the anguish of our entire nation in the aftermath of this really horrific and deadly flood.” Trump met with local officials and first responders in Kerrville, Texas, as the death toll in the state stands at 121, according to local law enforcement and Gov. Greg Abbott. The Trumps, along with Abbott, greeted first responders while standing before a Kerrville firetruck and a pile of felled trees before joining officials at a roundtable discussion.

More than 170 people are still missing after the deadly flash floods hit the region in the early morning of July 4. Drones, rescue teams, and volunteers are combing through debris, looking for the missing. The majority of confirmed deaths took place in Kerr County.

Trump expresses ‘anguish of entire nation’ after surveying Texas flood devastation

The US State Department is firing over 1,300 employees on Friday as part of a sweeping reorganisation plan launched by the Trump administration earlier this year. According to a senior State Department official, who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter, termination notices will be sent to 1,107 civil service employees and 246 foreign service officers currently serving in domestic roles.&nbsp; The affected foreign service officers will be immediately placed on administrative leave for 120 days, after which they will formally lose their jobs, said an internal notice. For most affected civil servants, the separation period is 60 days, it said.“In connection with the departmental reorganisation … the department is streamlining domestic operations to focus on diplomatic priorities,” the notice read. “Headcount reductions have been carefully tailored to affect non-core functions, duplicative or redundant offices, and offices where considerable efficiencies may be found from centralisation or consolidation of functions and responsibilities.”&nbsp;<h2>Move hailed by Trump, Rubio; slammed by diplomats</h2>&nbsp;The staff reduction has been hailed by President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and their Republican allies as overdue and necessary to make the department leaner, nimbler, and efficient, but it has been severely criticised by current and former diplomats who say it will weaken US influence and its ability to counter existing and emerging threats abroad.The Trump administration is reshaping American diplomacy and working aggressively to reduce the size of the federal government by mass dismissals and dismantling whole departments like the US Agency for International Development and the Education Department.&nbsp;In a recent ruling, the Supreme Court cleared the way for the layoffs to start, while lawsuits challenging the legality of the cuts continue to play out. The department had formally advised staffers a day before that it would be sending layoff notices to some of them. The job cuts are large but considerably less than many had feared initially.&nbsp;<h2>‘Deliberate step to make State Department more efficient, focused’</h2>&nbsp;Rubio said officials took “a very deliberate step to reorganise the State Department to be more efficient and more focused.”“It’s not a consequence of trying to get rid of people. But if you close the bureau, you don’t need those positions,” he told reporters in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where he’s attending the annual Association of Southeast Asian Nations Regional Forum.&nbsp;“Understand that some of these are positions that are being eliminated, not people,” he said, adding that some positions were unfilled or were vacant because of early retirement.&nbsp;<h2>‘Americans everywhere will bear consequences’</h2>&nbsp;The American Foreign Service Association had last month urged the State Department to hold off job cuts.Notices for a reduction in force, which would not only lay off employees but eliminate positions altogether, “should be a last resort,” association President Tom Yazdgerdi said. “Disrupting the Foreign Service like this puts national interests at risk—and Americans everywhere will bear the consequences.”The restructuring has been driven in part by the need to find a new home for the remaining functions of USAID, which was a target of the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.A letter sent by the department to Congress noted that the reorganisation will affect more than 300 bureaus and offices due to unclear or overlapping work.

Notices for reduction, which would not only lay off employees but eliminate positions altogether, should be a last resort, said association President Tom Yazdgerdi. “Disrupting the Foreign Service like this puts national interests at risk—and Americans everywhere will bear the consequences.”

The US State Department is firing over 1,300 employees on Friday as part of a sweeping reorganisation plan launched by the Trump administration earlier this year. According to a senior State Department official, who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter, termination notices will be sent to 1,107 civil service employees and 246 foreign service officers currently serving in domestic roles. The affected foreign service officers will be immediately placed on administrative leave for 120 days, after which they will formally lose their jobs, said an internal notice. For most affected civil servants, the separation period is 60 days, it said. “In connection with the departmental reorganisation … the department is streamlining domestic operations to focus on diplomatic priorities,” the notice read. “Headcount reductions have been carefully tailored to affect non-core functions, duplicative or redundant offices, and offices where considerable efficiencies may be found from centralisation or consolidation of functions and responsibilities.” Move hailed by Trump, Rubio; slammed by diplomats The staff reduction has been hailed by President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and their Republican allies as overdue and necessary to make the department leaner, nimbler, and efficient, but it has been severely criticised by current and former diplomats who say it will weaken US influence and its ability to counter existing and emerging threats abroad. The Trump administration is reshaping American diplomacy and working aggressively to reduce the size of the federal government by mass dismissals and dismantling whole departments like the US Agency for International Development and the Education Department. In a recent ruling, the Supreme Court cleared the way for the layoffs to start, while lawsuits challenging the legality of the cuts continue to play out. The department had formally advised staffers a day before that it would be sending layoff notices to some of them. The job cuts are large but considerably less than many had feared initially. ‘Deliberate step to make State Department more efficient, focused’ Rubio said officials took “a very deliberate step to reorganise the State Department to be more efficient and more focused.” “It’s not a consequence of trying to get rid of people. But if you close the bureau, you don’t need those positions,” he told reporters in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where he’s attending the annual Association of Southeast Asian Nations Regional Forum. “Understand that some of these are positions that are being eliminated, not people,” he said, adding that some positions were unfilled or were vacant because of early retirement. ‘Americans everywhere will bear consequences’ The American Foreign Service Association had last month urged the State Department to hold off job cuts. Notices for a reduction in force, which would not only lay off employees but eliminate positions altogether, “should be a last resort,” association President Tom Yazdgerdi said. “Disrupting the Foreign Service like this puts national interests at risk—and Americans everywhere will bear the consequences.” The restructuring has been driven in part by the need to find a new home for the remaining functions of USAID, which was a target of the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. A letter sent by the department to Congress noted that the reorganisation will affect more than 300 bureaus and offices due to unclear or overlapping work.

Notices for reduction, which would not only lay off employees but eliminate positions altogether, should be a last resort, said association President Tom Yazdgerdi. “Disrupting the Foreign Service like this puts national interests at risk—and Americans everywhere will bear the consequences.”

US State Department firing over 1,300 staffers under Trump admin’s restructuring plan

Iran has finally admitted that its nuclear facilities have in fact been “badly damaged” in the US strikes. Esmail Baghaei, the spokesman of Iran’s foreign ministry, told Al Jazeera on Wednesday, “Our nuclear installations have been badly damaged.” However, he refused to share any details of the damage or the status of the nuclear facilities.&nbsp; “Yes, our nuclear installations have been badly damaged. That’s for sure because [they have] come under repeated attacks,” he said. “I have nothing to add on this issue because it’s a matter of technical issue,” he added, noting that the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI) and other relevant agencies are taking note of it. The Iranian admission comes after some contradictory reports questioned the ‘obliteration’ of the country’s nuclear programme.&nbsp;On June 22, the US carried out Operation Midnight Hammer and dropped 30,000-pound bunker-buster bombs on the three nuclear facilities in Iran—Natanz, Fordow, and Isfahan—from its B-2 stealth bombers. The US strikes were aimed at destroying Iran’s nuclear programme, after the ongoing talks between the two countries failed to yield any result.&nbsp;Baghaei also hailed Iranians for their resoluteness and said, “Our people were massacred by Israel’s aggression. That’s war crimes, crimes against humanity and they [Israel] have to be held accountable”.&nbsp;“But the point is our people showed they are resolute in their defence of national security and sovereignty,” he added.&nbsp;<h2>‘Victory for everybody,’ says Trump</h2>&nbsp;Earlier in the day, US President Donald Trump hailed his ‘success’ in bringing the war between Iran and Israel to an end. Speaking to reporters at the Hague, he said that his decision to join Israel’s strikes against Iran ended the war, calling it a “victory for everybody”.Trump also rejected reports of an initial assessment by the US Defense Intelligence Agency and said that the findings were “inconclusive”. The report had claimed that the US strikes had only set back Iran’s nuclear programme by months.&nbsp;“The intelligence was very inconclusive. The intelligence says we don’t know. It could’ve been very severe. That’s what the intelligence suggests,” Trump told reporters.“It was very severe. It was obliteration. Iran’s nuclear programme has been put back decades,” he added.&nbsp;<h2>‘Tehran would not try to rebuild its nuclear facilities’</h2>&nbsp;Trump also added that Tehran would not try to rebuild its nuclear facilities and would instead opt for a diplomatic path towards reconciliation. “I’ll tell you, the last thing they want to do is enrich anything right now. They want to recover,” he said.On being asked if the US would attack Iran again if it tried to resume its nuclear enrichment programme, Trump said, “Sure”.&nbsp;Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, also told Fox News that the US and Israel had achieved their objective of “total destruction of the enrichment capacity” in Iran.&nbsp;Israel had also struck the Iranian nuclear facilities, saying that it aimed to thwart Tehran’s nuclear programme.&nbsp;However, the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, is yet to conduct an assessment of Iran’s nuclear facilities.IAEA chief Rafael Grossi said that his ‘number 1 priority’ was to get his inspectors back to Iran’s nuclear sites to assess the impact of the US and Israeli military strikes, and verify its stockpile of enriched uranium.

On June 22, the US carried out Operation Midnight Hammer and dropped 30,000-pound bunker-buster bombs on the three nuclear facilities in Iran—Natanz, Fordow, and Isfahan—from its B-2 stealth bombers. The US strikes were aimed at destroying Iran’s nuclear programme.

Iran has finally admitted that its nuclear facilities have in fact been “badly damaged” in the US strikes. Esmail Baghaei, the spokesman of Iran’s foreign ministry, told Al Jazeera on Wednesday, “Our nuclear installations have been badly damaged.” However, he refused to share any details of the damage or the status of the nuclear facilities. “Yes, our nuclear installations have been badly damaged. That’s for sure because [they have] come under repeated attacks,” he said. “I have nothing to add on this issue because it’s a matter of technical issue,” he added, noting that the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI) and other relevant agencies are taking note of it. The Iranian admission comes after some contradictory reports questioned the ‘obliteration’ of the country’s nuclear programme. On June 22, the US carried out Operation Midnight Hammer and dropped 30,000-pound bunker-buster bombs on the three nuclear facilities in Iran—Natanz, Fordow, and Isfahan—from its B-2 stealth bombers. The US strikes were aimed at destroying Iran’s nuclear programme, after the ongoing talks between the two countries failed to yield any result. Baghaei also hailed Iranians for their resoluteness and said, “Our people were massacred by Israel’s aggression. That’s war crimes, crimes against humanity and they [Israel] have to be held accountable”. “But the point is our people showed they are resolute in their defence of national security and sovereignty,” he added. ‘Victory for everybody,’ says Trump Earlier in the day, US President Donald Trump hailed his ‘success’ in bringing the war between Iran and Israel to an end. Speaking to reporters at the Hague, he said that his decision to join Israel’s strikes against Iran ended the war, calling it a “victory for everybody”. Trump also rejected reports of an initial assessment by the US Defense Intelligence Agency and said that the findings were “inconclusive”. The report had claimed that the US strikes had only set back Iran’s nuclear programme by months. “The intelligence was very inconclusive. The intelligence says we don’t know. It could’ve been very severe. That’s what the intelligence suggests,” Trump told reporters. “It was very severe. It was obliteration. Iran’s nuclear programme has been put back decades,” he added. ‘Tehran would not try to rebuild its nuclear facilities’ Trump also added that Tehran would not try to rebuild its nuclear facilities and would instead opt for a diplomatic path towards reconciliation. “I’ll tell you, the last thing they want to do is enrich anything right now. They want to recover,” he said. On being asked if the US would attack Iran again if it tried to resume its nuclear enrichment programme, Trump said, “Sure”. Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, also told Fox News that the US and Israel had achieved their objective of “total destruction of the enrichment capacity” in Iran. Israel had also struck the Iranian nuclear facilities, saying that it aimed to thwart Tehran’s nuclear programme. However, the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, is yet to conduct an assessment of Iran’s nuclear facilities. IAEA chief Rafael Grossi said that his ‘number 1 priority’ was to get his inspectors back to Iran’s nuclear sites to assess the impact of the US and Israeli military strikes, and verify its stockpile of enriched uranium.

On June 22, the US carried out Operation Midnight Hammer and dropped 30,000-pound bunker-buster bombs on the three nuclear facilities in Iran—Natanz, Fordow, and Isfahan—from its B-2 stealth bombers. The US strikes were aimed at destroying Iran’s nuclear programme.

‘Badly damaged’: Iran's first admission of damage to its nuclear facilities in US strikes

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