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Good morning. You’re reading the Up First newsletter. Subscribe here to get it delivered to your inbox, and listen to the Up First podcast for all the news you need to start your day. Today’s top stories The death toll in Texas has risen to 109 people after the devastating floods on July 4. Search and rescue efforts continue, and 161 people are known to be missing. State officials haven’t yet said they’re shifting to recovery efforts, but they confirmed the last time first responders found someone alive was Friday. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says first responders will continue working until “every missing person…

The death of a paddleboarder who went missing in Maine last week has been ruled a homicide, police said Monday.Sunshine Stewart, 48, was found dead during a search last Thursday on Crawford Pond in the town of Union, Maine State Police said in a statement. An autopsy by the state medical examiner’s office determined her death was a homicide, although the cause of death has not been released.  “At first, a lot of people thought it was a boating accident,” Kate Hamar, who lives in the area, told CBS’ local affiliate WGME.”It’s left everybody pretty shaken,” Hamar said. Kathy Lunt, the owner of…

Ad Policy (Madison Swart / Hans Lucas via AFP) Trump’s ICE is attacking undocumented people in LA County because there are a lot of them—maybe a million, out of a total of 3.3 million Latinos, and also because LA is one of the most Democratic counties in the country. And LA has a big and militant alliance of immigrant rights groups that are fighting Trump. Harold Meyerson will explain the deportation battle in Southern California at this point.  Also: Rachel Kushner will talk about the informant and provocateur who infiltrates an anarchist eco-commune in rural France – the central character in…

New Orleans —  An Iranian mother detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers was released this week following advocacy from Republican House Majority Leader Steve Scalise.Mandonna “Donna” Kashanian, 64, was detained by ICE officers last month as she gardened in the yard of her New Orleans home. CBS New Orleans affiliate WWL-TV reports that it happened on June 22, the day after U.S. forces bombed Iran.She’s lived in the United States for 47 years and her husband of 35 years, Russell Milne, and 32-year-old daughter Kaitlynn are both U.S. citizens.Milne and Kaitlynn picked her up at an ICE detention…

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio attends a signing ceremony for a peace agreement between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo at the State Department, June 27, 2025, in Washington. Mark Schiefelbein/AP hide caption toggle caption Mark Schiefelbein/AP WASHINGTON — The State Department is warning U.S. diplomats of attempts to impersonate Secretary of State Marco Rubio and possibly other officials using technology driven by artificial intelligence, according to two senior officials and a cable sent last week to all embassies and consulates. The warning came after the department discovered that an impostor posing as Rubio had attempted to reach…

Washington — Congressional leaders are meeting this week with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after some lawmakers accused the Israeli leader of trying to drag the U.S. into another war. Netanyahu met with House Speaker Mike Johnson Tuesday after meeting earlier in the day with Vice President JD Vance. Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, postponed a trip to Israel in June to address the Israeli parliament, known as the Knesset, as war broke out with Iran. In a statement, Johnson said he and Netanyahu discussed the United States’ commitment to Israel’s security and a ceasefire agreement in Gaza. “America and Israel’s strong stand in the…

Heavy rains drenched the Ruidoso area of southern New Mexico on Tuesday and triggered flash flooding, with fast-moving water seen carrying a house downstream.  Three people have been treated for injuries, and there have been no confirmed fatalities as of Tuesday night, Kerry Gladden, a spokesperson for the village of Ruidoso, told CBS News. Some people are unaccounted for, but the number is unclear, Gladden said.Earlier Tuesday, the National Weather Service said multiple rescue missions were underway at Gavilan Trailer Park in Ruidoso, and that a father and two children in Lincoln, New Mexico, had been washed away in flood waters. It…

A local resident leaves a church after voting in an election in Cumming, Iowa. Charlie Neibergall/AP hide caption toggle caption Charlie Neibergall/AP In a break with decades of tradition, the Internal Revenue Service says it will allow houses of worship to endorse candidates for political office without losing their tax-exempt status. The surprise announcement came in a court document filed on Monday. Since 1954, a provision in the tax code called the Johnson Amendment says that churches and other nonprofit organizations could lose their tax-exempt status if they participate in, or intervene in “any political campaign on behalf of (or…

The Department of Justice has accused two people of selling a rifle to Ryan Routh, who was charged with trying to kill President Trump at his Florida golf club last year.Two defendants — Tina Brown Cooper and Ronnie Jay Oxendine — have pleaded guilty to gun-related charges in federal court, after being indicted in March and arrested in April. Cooper pleaded guilty to firearm trafficking on Monday, and Oxendine pleaded guilty last month to possessing an unregistered firearm after police found a short-barreled shotgun in his storage building.In court papers filed in both cases as part of the plea agreements,…