At least 51 people, including 15 children, have died in catastrophic flash flooding that struck central Texas on July 4, leaving a trail of devastation across the region.
|
|
|
| “To be good, and to do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words. |
| |
|
-
At least 51 people, including 15 children, have died in catastrophic flash flooding that struck central Texas on July 4, leaving a trail of devastation across the region.
-
Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has launched a new political party.
-
President Donald Trump said he would not allow Iran to restart its nuclear program after Tehran suspended cooperation with international nuclear inspectors.
-
China is planning to maintain its dominance in the international electric vehicle sector by investing heavily in Africa, according to industry analysts.
-
🍵 Health: Five hip exercises to build core strength and hip stability. (Read)
|
☀️ Good morning! It’s Sunday. Thank you for reading the Morning Brief, an exclusive newsletter for Epoch Times subscribers. 👋 New to Morning Brief? Subscribe. 🎧 Prefer to listen? Get the podcast. |
|
|
| Ivan Pentchoukov
National Editor |
|
|
Trees emerge from flood waters along the Guadalupe River in Kerrville, Texas, on July 4, 2025. (Eric Vryn/Getty Images) |
At least 51 people, including 15 children, have died in catastrophic flash flooding that struck central Texas on July 4, leaving a trail of devastation across the region. At least 43 people were killed from the flooding in Kerr County. Six more people died in nearby counties.
Among the missing are 27 girls from Camp Mystic, a Christian summer camp, Kerrville city manager Dalton Rice said at a press conference on Saturday evening. “We are kind of looking at this in two ways called the known missing, which is the 27,” Rice said. “We will not put a number on the other side because we just don’t know.” Rescue crews have evacuated or rescued more than 850 people so far, including at least eight who sustained injuries, Kerr County Sheriff Larry Leitha said at a Saturday afternoon press conference. First responders are continuing to comb flood-affected areas for those still missing.
Kerrville Mayor Joe Herring Jr. said the day will be challenging for the community and voiced deep gratitude for the tireless efforts of teams battling the aftermath of the floods.
“People need to know, today will be a hard day,” Herring said. “Please pray for our community.” (More) More U.S. News: |
-
In Photos: July 4th Celebrations (Look)
-
Colleges and universities across the country, both public and private, face financial challenges ahead of the upcoming academic year, regardless of their size, wealth, and prestige.
-
There has been a surge of criminals targeting stock investors in the United States in a “ramp-and-dump” stock manipulation scheme via messaging apps and social media platforms, the FBI said in a July 3 alert.
-
Tropical Storm Chantal has formed off the southeastern coast of the United States and is expected to make landfall along the South Carolina coast on Sunday morning.
|
Elon Musk in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on May 30, 2025. (Allison Robbert/AFP via Getty Images) |
Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has officially launched a new political party, announcing the formation of the America Party in a July 5 post on his social media platform X. “Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom,” Musk wrote, following a poll he posted a day earlier asking his followers whether they would support such an initiative. “Independence Day is the perfect time to ask if you want independence from the two-party (some would say uniparty) system,” Musk wrote on July 4. “Should we create the America Party?”
Musk’s poll found that 65.4 percent of respondents favored establishing the America Party. The announcement of the new party was made following Musk’s fierce criticism of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a sweeping measure signed into law by President Donald Trump on July 4.
Musk’s opposition to the bill stems largely from its deficit-financed spending. A staunch advocate of fiscal restraint, he championed reining in government spending during his involvement in Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative. The Congressional Budget Office has projected that the reconciliation budget measure will add approximately $3.25 trillion to the deficit over a decade. Since early June, Musk has teased the idea of a new political party aimed at what he describes as the “80 percent in the middle.” A poll he shared on June 5 showed about 80 percent of respondents agreeing that the country needs a new political force—an outcome Musk called “fate.” (More)
More Politics: |
-
President Donald Trump has signed letters that will be sent to around a dozen nations ahead of next week’s deadline to reach a trade agreement.
-
The Trump administration deported eight illegal immigrants to South Sudan on Saturday after a federal judge cleared the way.
-
President Trump ended a decades-long saga by signing off on a pipeline permit to import oil from Alberta into Montana. The owners of the permit were shocked to learn the news.
|
President Donald Trump said he would not allow Iran to restart its nuclear program after Tehran suspended cooperation with international nuclear inspectors.
The president, speaking to reporters on July 4 aboard Air Force One, said last month’s airstrikes on Iran’s three uranium enrichment sites were a “great success” that he believes has permanently crippled the country’s nuclear capabilities. He did acknowledge, however, that the program could in theory be restarted elsewhere.
“The whole nuclear thing, I would say, is set back permanently,” Trump said as he traveled to New Jersey after an Independence Day celebration at the White House. “If they were to do it again, they might as well start in a different location, because that location is totally demolished.”
“They could start, but I would think they’d have to start in a different location,” he continued. “But if they did start, there’d be a problem. We wouldn’t allow that to happen.” Trump said he planned to discuss the matter with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on July 7. When asked about Iran’s refusal to allow inspections of its nuclear program or to cease uranium enrichment, Trump said he would wait to see what Iranian leaders have to say if they seek a future meeting with him.
“They want to meet with me,” he said. “So, if they haven’t agreed, then we’re not going to have a very successful meeting.” (More) More World News: |
- China’s northern and western regions grappled with heavy rains after floods devastated central and southern China, causing landslides and mass displacements in their wake.
|
Photo of the Day: Sierra Madre Fire Chief Brent Bartlett greets youngsters during the Sierra Madre Independence Day Parade, not far from the Eaton Fire burn zone in Sierra Madre, Calif., on July 4, 2025. The parade featured firefighters, police officers and other first responders who battled and responded to the Eaton and Palisades fires with July 7 marking the six-month anniversary of the devastating fires. (Mario Tama/Getty Images) |
Our photography editors comb through the best images in the world every day. See their picks for today here ➞ |
📸 America in Photos: Floods in Texas, the Original Alcatraz, and Independence Day Celebrations (Look)
✅Survey: Epoch Readers weigh in on birthright citizenship, tech layoffs, and outer space. (Results)
🇺🇲 American Thought Leaders: What lies ahead for the vaccine advisory panel appointed by RFK Jr.? Jan Jekielek spoke to two of the newly-appointed members. (Watch) ✍️ Opinion: |
- Do We Own Our Own Minds?—by Mollie Engelhart (Read)
-
In Iran, B-2 Stealth Bombers Did Something the Brand New B-21 Stealth Bomber Will Never Be Able to Do—by Mike Fredenburg (Read)
|
🎵 Music: Beethoven - Symphony No. 2 (Listen) 🔥In case you missed it, the most read article from yesterday’s newsletter was about what Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill means for your wallet (Read) … and remember: 📫 Forward this email to a friend and tell them to subscribe. (Here)
☕ Love coffee, mugs, stickers, and clothes? Check out our shop.
💬 Feedback? Reply to this email or write to ivanmb@epochtimes.nyc
|
A husband is called to the vocation of husbandry—care, commitment, and helping his family grow. (Biba Kajevic) |
Everyone knows what a husband is. Or do they? Defining him simply as “a married man” falls short of the full richness and depth of this term and the reality to which it refers.
How can we better understand the full significance of what it means to be a husband? As is so often the case, English provides us with clues. The word “husband” derives from the Old English “husbonda,” which in turn derives from the Old Norse “husbondi,” meaning “master of the house” or “house-dweller.” It’s a combination of “hus” (“house”) and “bondi,” meaning a “dweller, freeholder, or peasant.” “The American Heritage Dictionary” comments, “The master of the house was usually a spouse as well, of course, and it would seem that the main modern sense of husband arises from this overlap.”
Already, this linguistic lineage begins to show us that, in the minds of our forebears, the concept of the husband was tied to the idea of a place, a piece of land, or a household. A man had to have some form of wealth to offer a woman before he married her.
The work he and his wife were about to begin on—the work of building a shared life and family—required a very tangible form of support, a place where food could be produced and shelter provided. In the minds of our ancestors, it seems that a house-holder and a married man were all but synonymous.
This helps us understand that, traditionally, being a husband wasn’t just a commitment to a woman but also a commitment to a place and a home, which was the substratum of a man and a woman’s life together. (More) |
|
|
Thanks for reading. Have a wonderful day. |
—Ivan Pentchoukov, Madalina Hubert, and Kenzi Li. |
|
|
Copyright © 2025 The Epoch Times, All rights reserved.
Our mailing address is: The Epoch Times. 229 W. 28 St. Fl. 7 New York, NY 10001 | Contact Us
Our Morning Brief newsletter is one of the best ways to receive the most up-to-date information. Manage your email preferences here or unsubscribe from Morning Brief here.
|
|
|
|
