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šµ Texas July 4th Tragedy
Citizen Frank
July 05, 2025
Good evening. Itās Friday, July 4.
Months worth of heavy rain fell in a matter of hours on Texas Hill Country, leaving 24 people dead and many more unaccounted for Friday, including more than 20 girls attending a summer camp, as search teams conducted boat and helicopter rescues in fast-moving floodwaters.
Desperate pleas peppered social media as loved ones sought any information about people caught in the flood zone. At least 10 inches (25 centimeters) of rain poured down overnight in central Kerr County, causing flash flooding of the Guadalupe River.
At a news conference late Friday Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha said 24 people had been killed. Authorities said 237 people had been recued so far, including 167 by helicopter.
Just a few weeks after departing the White House as a top advisor to President Donald Trump, Elon Musk has started detailing his plans to create a new political party.
In a post to X on Friday, July 4, Musk wrote, āIndependence Day is the perfect time to ask if you want independence from the two-party (some would say uniparty) system! Should we create the America Party?ā
The post included a poll for followers to vote yes or no, and in a subsequent post, the 54-year-old tech billionaire shared his idea for how a new party could disrupt the Republican-Democrat divide.
President Trump on Friday signed his signature tax and spending legislation, the ābig beautiful bill,ā into law, meeting a July 4 deadline that at times appeared out of reach.
Itās a huge achievement for Trump and congressional Republicans that will reshape federal fiscal policy for years to come. The megabill cuts funding for social safety measures, extends tax cuts and finances Trumpās immigration agenda.
Trump signed the measure as part of a highly staged White House Independence Day celebration featuring a bomber jet flyover and the annual fireworks on the National Mall.
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., temporarily blocked the Trump administration on Friday from deporting eight foreign nationals to South Sudan, just days after the Supreme Court sided with the administration in a related deportation case.
U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss issued an administrative stay on the morning of July 4, barring the Department of Homeland Security from āmoving, transferring, or removingā the eight men while the court considers a new constitutional challenge to their removal. This marks the third time the removal efforts have been delayed by lower court intervention after the Supreme Court has twice said the removals can take place.
The decision came in response to an emergency habeas petition filed Thursday evening in Phan v. DHS, which argues that sending the men to the war-torn African nation would amount to unlawful punishment in violation of the Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth amendments.
A video released by El Salvador President Nayib Bukele casts doubts on claims by Kilmar Abrego Garcia that he was beaten and tortured during his imprisonment in his country of origin.
In a video posted by the president on X, Abrego Garcia is seen in the video gardening, playing soccer, fishing and enjoying other leisurely activities while imprisoned in his home country.
The video appears at odds with Abrego Garciaās legal filings earlier this week that he was severely beaten, deprived of sleep, and psychologically tortured while detained. He also claimed he lost more than 30 pounds.
President Trump said heāll begin rolling out āreciprocalā tariffs Friday on countries that have yet to reach a tentative deal with his team ā with the new US trade taxes hitting as high as ā60 or 70%.
āWeāre going to start sending letters out to various countries starting [Friday]. Weāll probably have 10 or 12 go out,ā Trump told reporters after midnight as he returned from a speech at the Iowa State Fairgrounds.
āI think by the 9th [of July] theyāll be fully covered, and they will range in value from maybe 60 or 70% tariffs to 10 and 20% tariffs.ā
The Trump administration is sending 200 Marines to Florida to provide support for ICE deportation raids across the Sunshine State, military officials announced Thursday.
The mobilization of Marines was revealed by US Northern Command and came in response to a May request for military assistance from the Department of Homeland Security.
The Marines will aid the Immigration and Customs Enforcementās āinterior immigration enforcement mission,ā according to a statement from US Northern Command.
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