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Yesterday — 14 July 2025Main stream

Texan Stoicism Provides Comfort, and Excuses, After the Flood

14 July 2025 at 17:02
Texans often draw on the idea of their own self-reliance during times of adversity. Gov. Greg Abbott has used it to deflect tough questions.

© Jordan Vonderhaar for The New York Times

Few states have faced such a wide range of calamities, natural and man-made, as Texas.
Before yesterdayMain stream

Flash Floods Are the ‘Hardest Kind’ of Disaster to Prevent, Experts Say

Scholars and designers of early warning systems say that there are still huge gaps in our ability to predict flash floods and warn those at risk.

© Jose Jordan/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Flood-damaged homes lining the river in Chiva, near Valencia, Spain, in November. A flood alert system was in place but was not immediately activated.

Strava Fitness App Revealed Locations of Swedish Leaders

11 July 2025 at 22:24
Secret meetings and private holidays of the royal family and prime minister were inadvertently made public on Strava, which has raised security concerns in other instances.

© Oscar Olsson, via Tt News Agency

Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson of Sweden with his wife, Birgitta Ed, in 2024. Fitness data from bodyguards gave away the location of his private residence, a newspaper report found.
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