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  1. Split screen showing a mother with her son sitting on her lap and a group of people holding lit candles.

  2. Texas floods rescuers in dinghy

  3. A composite image shows the faces of Renee Smajstrla, Jane Ragsdale, Julian Ryan and Sarah Marsh

  4. An U.S. Border Patrol logo patch photographed on Thursday, June 12, 2025 during at a press conference in Los Angeles.

  5. US President Donald Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House in Washington DC on 7 July 2025.

  6. A boat on a river in Texas with four rescue workers on board

  7. Workers operate heavy machinery to clear debris after massive flooding

  8. Jeffrey Epstein placard used by FBI in 2019

  9. Heavily pregnant woman stands wearing a polka dot dress and a cap

  10. A box of biles for Measles Vaccinations offered by Harris Public Health is photographed on Saturday, April 5, 2025 in Houston, Texas

  11. A split screen image of a road before and after flooding. One side is submerged

  12. Stuffed animals sit in a windowsill at Camp Mystic amid flood damage

  13. Campers embrace after arriving to a reunification area after floods in central Texas on 5 July 2025

  14. Israeli hostages' families and their supporters demand a deal that secures the release of all of them, in Tel Aviv, Israel (5 July 2025)

  15. Building exploding at night, engulfed in fire

  16. Building exploding at night, engulfed in fire

  17. In the background two bald men in blue overalls with hands and feet shackled sit on the plane, with one Asian man to one of their left and other faces not visible but more people sat with shackles in grey overalls. Uniformed men are stood around them

  18. Drone footage shows a swollen river and flooded houses from above

  19. A man consoles another man by a river on the left. A woman looks into the distance on the right. The two pictures are separated by a strip of red.

  20. Woman stands with umbrella as river floods in background

  21. Muddy bunk beds

  22. Elon Musk