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Parents of campers and counselors who died in the July 4 Texas floods said the camp leadership did little before mounting “a hopeless ‘rescue’ effort from its self-created disaster.” Read full article

But the administration indicated it might not be necessary, as Congress inched toward a deal to fund the government. Read full article

Christine Pelosi, a Democratic activist, announced that she will run instead for a California State Senate seat, ending speculation that she would try to succeed Nancy Pelosi in the U.S. House. Read full article

Republicans have voiced outrage that Jack Smith looked at G.O.P. lawmakers’ phone records surrounding the Jan. 6 attack. Legislation to reopen the government would allow them to sue for $500,000 each. Read full article

Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire voted to move to end the shutdown. But her daughter Stefany Shaheen, a congressional candidate in their state, sharply criticized the deal. Read full article

The justices agreed to hear a challenge to Mississippi’s law, a case that could upend similar measures in dozens of states before the 2026 election. Read full article

The latest strikes raised the death toll in the campaign to 76 people in 19 attacks in the Pacific and the Caribbean Sea since early September. Read full article

Senator Bernie Sanders is backing Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan in her state’s Democratic primary race for Senate, his latest attempt to pull the party to the left. Read full article

Kim Davis, a Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses, had asked the court to reconsider its landmark 2015 opinion. Read full article

The pardons of former Trump aides, which would only apply in federal court, are largely symbolic and cannot shield them from ongoing state-level prosecutions. Read full article