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Good morning and welcome to the Sunday edition of Morning Wire, where we give you the weekend rundown to get ready for the week ahead. Today, a look at how FEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings from a 100-year flood map before expansion. And how Ospreys have made a major comeback, but now, their survival is threatened again.
But first, it's been one year since the attempted assassination of President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania.
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Donald Trump is helped off the stage at a campaign event in Butler, Pa., July 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) |
A year after Trump's near-assassination, friends and allies see some signs of a changed man |
One year after a near-assassination, President Donald Trump, according to friends and aides, is more attentive and more grateful, and says he believes he was saved by God to save the country, making him even more dug in on achieving his far-reaching agenda. Read more. |
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A building at Camp Mystic is reflected in water on Monday, after a flash flood swept through the area in Hunt, Texas on July 4. (AP Photo/Eli Hartman) |
FEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings from 100-year flood map before expansion, records show |
Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic's buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before rushing waters swept away at least 27 children and counselors in Texas on July 4, a review by The Associated Press found. Read more. |
Osprey came back from the brink once. Now chicks are dying in nests, and some blame overfishing |
Ospreys, known for gymnastic dives and whistle-like chirps, are an American conservation success story. After pesticides and other hazards nearly eliminated the species from much of the country, the hawk-like bird rebounded in 1972 and now numbers are in the thousands in the U.S. But the birds are failing to successfully fledge enough chicks around their key population center of the Chesapeake Bay. Read more. |
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People embrace outside of Glass House Farms on Friday, a day after an immigration raid on the facility, in Camarillo, Calif. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) |
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