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Christian girls summer camp devastated by floods holds decades-long history with presidents, Texas politicos
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More than two dozen children have died from the devastating flash floods gripping Texas’ Hill Country, which is home to popular youth summer camps, including Camp Mystic, a Christian girls’ summer program that holds deep roots with Texas politicians and presidential families stretching back decades.
Flash floods inundated Kerr County, Texas, and the surrounding area in central Texas’ Hill Country early on the Fourth of July holiday. Warnings over the flooding were issued Thursday, but the devastation hit the area in the early morning hours of Friday, taking residents by surprise.
Kerr County, Texas, is home to a handful of youth summer camps, including Camp Mystic, a Christian girls summer camp established in 1926 by University of Texas football and basketball coach «Doc» Stewart.
At least 27 campers and counselors were confirmed dead, and the camp was devastated by the waters that flooded the Guadalupe River and tore through the surrounding communities, according to Camp Mystic’s website.
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Heavy rainfall caused flooding along the Guadalupe River in central Texas with multiple fatalities reported. (Eric Vryn/Getty Images)
«Today I visited Camp Mystic. It, and the river running beside it, were horrendously ravaged in ways unlike I’ve seen in any natural disaster,» Abbott posted to X Saturday. «The height the rushing water reached to the top of cabins was shocking. We won’t stop until we find every girl who was in those cabins.»
The camp describes itself as one that focuses on promoting spiritual growth and bringing out the best in campers during their stays, according to its website.
«Camp Mystic is a private Christian summer camp for girls,» the camp says on its website. «Established in 1926, Mystic is nestled among cypress, live oak, and pecan trees in the hill country of west-central Texas on the banks of the beautiful Guadalupe River. Mystic is located near the geographical center of Texas, 18 miles northwest of Kerrville. The staff at Mystic strives to provide young girls with a wholesome Christian atmosphere in which they can develop outstanding personal qualities and self-esteem.»
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Camp Mystic has long and deep roots with Texas politicians and their families, including former first lady Laura Bush, who worked as a counselor there while attending Southern Methodist University in her youth, and former President Lyndon B. Johnson, who sent his daughters to the camp.
Former U.S. President George W. Bush and former first lady Laura Bush published a statement on the devastation in Texas following flash floods that have claimed dozens of lives.
Jenna Bush Hager, daughter of former President George W. Bush and Laura Bush, said in a media appearance on Monday that her mother worked as a drama counselor at the camp in her youth, while many of her friends attended the camp or sent their children to the camp.
«My mom was a counselor there, but also so many of my friends were raised at this camp,» Bush Hager said on NBC’s «Today» show Monday. «Texas camps are institutions, as you just heard, where were many family members — generations — this camp was 100 years old, so grandmothers, mothers, kids have all gone there.»
«The stories that I heard over the last couple days were beautiful and heartbreaking,» she said. «Texas has a type of resilience where they’re generous people, where people want to reach out and help.»
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The former first daughter continued that families flock to the Hill Country’s summer camps despite the hot Texas weather because «of the love that’s there.»
Officials inspect an area at Camp Mystic along the banks of the Guadalupe River after a flash flood swept through the area July 6, 2025, in Hunt, Texas. (Julio Cortez/The Associated Press)
«Texas camps are really special because you’re thinking about 90-degree weather, no air conditioning,» she added. «My kids are at camp in Texas, and my husband said, ‘Why are we sending our kids to Texas, to camp? It’s hot!’ And it’s because of the love that’s there.»
Former President George W. Bush released a statement on the devastation and death Sunday, saying he and his wife are heartbroken by the loss.
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«On this day of prayer, Laura and I are holding up our fellow Texans who are hurting,» he said on Sunday of the tragedy. «We are heartbroken by the loss of life and the agony so many are feeling. Those who have lost their precious children are facing a grief no parents should ever know. We are grateful to the first responders and volunteers who are working to find the missing and comfort the grieving at Camp Mystic and along the Guadalupe. We know our words cannot help, but we believe the prayers of so many Americans will,»
Debris at Camp Mystic after deadly flooding in Kerr County, Texas, U.S., July 5, 2025. The girls’ camp has long attracted attendance from the families of Texas politicians. REUTERS/Sergio Flores. (REUTERS/Sergio Flores )
The camp also drew multiple generations from former President Lyndon B. Johnson’s family. A digital copy of Texas Monthly’s May 1975 edition outlined that Johnson’s two «daughters were also Mystic campers,» while the Texas Tribune reported recently that the 36th president’s granddaughters and great-granddaughters also attended the camp.
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At least three generations of former President Lyndon B. Johnson’s family attended Camp Mystic across the decades, according to local media. (Getty Images)
The camp, across its nearly 100 years in operation, has seen multiple Texas political families take part, including former Govs. Dan Moody, Price Daniel and John Connally sending their daughters to the camp, according to Texas Monthly, while James Baker, who served as chief of staff to former Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, also sent his daughter and a granddaughter to Camp Mystic.
Officials ride a boat as they arrive to assist with a recovery effort at Camp Mystic along the Guadalupe River after a flash flood swept through the area, July 6, 2025, in Hunt, Texas. (Julio Cortez/AP Photo)
Republican Texas Rep. August Pfluger’s daughters and Georgia Republican Rep. Buddy Carter’s granddaughters were attending the camp during the flooding and survived the tragedy.
The camp’s longtime director and co-owner, Dick Eastland, was among those who tragically died in the floods while trying to rescue the campers. Eastland purchased the camp in 1974, Fox Digital previously reported.
«Camp Mystic’s Dick Eastland no doubt gave his life attempting to save his campers,» Pfluger wrote on X of the death. «For decades he and his wife Tweety poured his life into loving and developing girls and women of character. Thank you Mr. Eastland. We love you and miss you.»
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President Donald Trump signed a disaster declaration Sunday for Kerr County, Texas, and told the media he will likely visit the area Friday.
«These families are enduring an unimaginable tragedy, with many lives lost, and many still missing,» Trump posted to Truth Social Sunday of the devastation in Texas. «The Trump Administration continues to work closely with State and Local Leaders. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem was on the ground yesterday with Governor Greg Abbott, who is working hard to help the people of his Great State. Our incredible U.S. Coast Guard, together with State First Responders, have saved more than 850 lives. GOD BLESS THE FAMILIES, AND GOD BLESS TEXAS!»
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«We wanted to leave a little time. I would have done it today, but we’d just be in their way. Probably Friday,» Trump added in comment to reporters from New Jersey on Sunday when asked about plans to visit.
Fox News Digital’s Stephan Sorace contributed to this report.
El lunes por la tarde, las Fuerzas de Defensa de Israel (FDI) encontraron los restos del último rehén israelí, el sargento mayor Ran Gvili, en el norte de Gaza.
La identidad de Gvili fue confirmada por el Instituto Nacional de Medicina Forense, asesores rabínicos, la policía y las FDI. Y será devuelto a su familia para su entierro.
Según informaron las FDI el domingo por la noche, durante el fin de semana se iniciaron una serie de operaciones clandestinas para acercarse a la posible ubicación de Gvili.
Las FDI sospechaban que Gvili estaba enterrado en dos o tres lugares, pero información de inteligencia reciente indicaba que estaba enterrado en un cementerio musulmán en la zona de Shejaiay Darah-Tuffah, al norte de Gaza, en el lado israelí de la línea amarilla.
Las FDI afirmaron que la información obtenida sobre los restos de Gvili no provenía directamente de Hamas.
Al mismo tiempo, las FDI afirmaron que Hamas, o los mediadores qataríes, fueron consultados sobre esta información y creyeron que podría ser correcta.
Fuentes de las FDI insinuaron que la información reciente de Hamas sobre dónde podría haber sido enterrado Gvili podría haber sido una desviación.
Además, fuentes de las FDI insinuaron que la Yihad Islámica Palestina podría haber enterrado a Gvili en el cementerio, pensando incorrectamente que era uno de sus propios combatientes o, al menos, palestino.
Alrededor de las 7:15 p.m., las FDI habían dicho que la búsqueda podría completarse en un periodo de horas o podría tomar varios días.
Si las FDI no hubieran encontrado el cuerpo de Gvili en este lugar, estaban preparadas para explorar el otro par de posibilidades.
Además, las FDI han tenido información sobre esta ubicación durante un periodo de tiempo significativo, pero solo la evidencia adicional obtenida durante las operaciones clandestinas del fin de semana allanó el camino para decidir que este lugar realmente podría ser el sitio correcto.
Junto con el gran número de tropas de reserva y de servicio obligatorio de las FDI, y fuerzas de unidades de ingeniería, el equipo de las FDI en el terreno también ha contado con asesores rabínicos y un dentista para intentar ayudar a identificar y confirmar rápidamente sus restos.
Gvili fue asesinado el 7 de octubre y luego su cuerpo fue llevado a Gaza.
Su regreso marca el fin de la saga del retorno de todos los rehenes, vivos y fallecidos, tomados por Hamas el 7 de octubre.
El 7 de octubre de 2023 Hamas ejecutó uno de los mayores atentados que Israel sufrió en toda su historia.
El ataque sorpresa comenzó temprano en la mañana con una andanada de al menos 5000 cohetes contra Israel y con varias oleadas de incursiones hacia su territorio
Los milicianos palestinos traspasaron la barrera Gaza-Israel, atacaron y capturaron bases militares y masacraron a civiles en las comunidades israelíes vecinas, principalmente kibutz, así como en un festival de música electrónica.
Los milicianos también tomaron como rehenes tanto a soldados como a civiles, incluidos mujeres y niños, a los que trasladaron a la Franja de Gaza.
El ataque supuso para Israel la muerte de 1195 personas (766 civiles, de los que 36 eran menores, y 373 militares) y la captura de 251 más, que fueron llevadas a la Franja de Gaza.
La devolución de todos los rehenes era la condición para dar por terminada la fase 1 del acuerdo de paz que Estados Unidos impulsó entre Hamas e Israel. Esa primera fase preveía, el fin de los combates, el repliegue del ejército israelí hacia una franja de territorio en Gaza, conocida como zona amarilla, y la entrega de los rehenes.
Ahora debería comenzar la fase II del acuerdo.
Entre los términos del acuerdo de cese al fuego de 20 puntos impulsado por la Administración Trump en octubre de 2025, la Franja de Gaza será gobernada en una segunda fase por un comité tecnocrático palestino integrado por 15 miembros, que estarán bajo la supervisión de una denominada “Junta de Paz”, presidida por el propio Trump.
Israel también se comprometió a abrir el paso de Rafah que une el territorio de Gaza con Egipto.
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Fetterman urges Minneapolis ICE op to stand down as city spirals to ‘ungovernable and dangerous’ levels
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Democratic Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman is calling for an immediate end to the Minnesota immigration crackdown after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti Saturday by federal law enforcement, he said in comment to Fox News Digital.
«The operation in Minneapolis should stand down and immediately end,» Fetterman said Monday in a comment to Fox News Digital. «It has become an ungovernable and dangerous urban theatre for civilians and law enforcement that is incompatible with the American spirit.»
«As a very pro-immigration Democrat and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Border Management, I believe our nation deserves a secured border and that we should deport all criminal migrants,» he continued. «I also believe there needs to be a path to citizenship for those hardworking families who are here.»
Fetterman’s comments on the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation follow his vocal support of federal law enforcement officers, breaking with many Democrat colleagues who have called for the end to the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown and for ICE overall to be defunded.
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Sen. John Fetterman’s wife, Gisele, took aim at ICE and Trump administration immigration policies in an X post. (Mark Makela/Getty Images)
«Secure the border. Deport all the criminals. Stop targeting the hardworking migrants in our nation,» Fetterman posted to X earlier in January.
Fetterman added in his statement Monday that he continues to buck calls to defund ICE.
Fox News Digital reached out to Fetterman’s office Monday morning inquiring about his wife’s X post blasting the Trump administration’s immigration policies, even as her husband has publicly backed federal immigration officers.
«For more than a decade, I lived undocumented in the US. Every day carried the same uncertainty and fear lived in my body – a tight chest, shallow breaths, racing heart,» the senator’s wife, Gisele Barreto Fetterman, wrote Sunday. «What I thought was my private, chronic dread has now become a shared national wound.»
«This now-daily violence is not ‘law and order.’ It is terror inflicted on people who contribute, love and build their lives here,» she continued. «It’s devastatingly cruel and unAmerican.»
Gisele Barreto Fetterman previously has discussed moving to the U.S. from Brazil as a child, including as an illegal immigrant for a decade.
Alex Pretti, 37, was fatally shot Saturday by Border Patrol agents in Minnesota while filming federal officers on a Minneapolis street. Federal officials say Pretti approached agents with a 9 mm handgun and resisted disarmament, while witnesses have cast doubt on if Pretti, an ICU nurse, posed a threat to agents.
President Donald Trump told The Wall Street Journal Sunday that his administration is «reviewing everything,» surrounding the case, but did not say whether the agent who shot Pretti acted appropriately.
Sen. John Fetterman participates in a debate, June 2, 2025, in Boston. (Steven Senne, File/The Associated Press )
The fatal shooting, which follows the Jan. 7 fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good, has sparked outrage among Democrats and critics of the president who say Trump administration immigration policies are causing chaos for communities, while describing the shooting deaths of the two Americans as «murder.»
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Former President Bill Clinton, for example, issued a searing rebuke of the immigration crackdown following Pretti’s death, calling it an «unacceptable» tragedy that «should have been avoided.»
A man arrested by federal agents moments prior escapes in handcuffs after tear gas went off, Jan. 21, 2026, in Minneapolis. (Angelina Katsanis/The Associated Press )
Fetterman said in comment to Fox News Digital that «Ms. Good and Mr. Pretti should still be alive» and that his «family grieves for theirs.»
«I’ve also spent significant time hearing many different positions on the funding bills and maintain that I will never vote to shut our government down, especially our Defense Department.
«Additionally, a vote to shut our government down will not defund ICE. DHS has $178B in funding from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which I did not vote for,» he said. «I reject the calls to defund or abolish ICE. I strongly disagree with many strategies and practices ICE deployed in Minneapolis, and believe that must change.»
«I want a conversation on the DHS appropriations bill and support stripping it from the minibus,» he continued. «It is unlikely that will happen and our country will suffer another shutdown. We must find a way forward and I remain committed to being a voice of reason and common sense.»
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A Minnesota National Guard vehicle blocks off a road near the scene of a shooting earlier in the day, Saturday, Jan. 24, 2026, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Adam Gray)
Trump announced Monday that he was deploying White House border czar Tom Homan to Minnesota, and that he will report directly to the president.
«Tom Homan will be managing ICE operations on the ground in Minnesota and coordinating with others on the ongoing fraud investigations,» White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox Digital Monday.
Leavitt said Monday during a White House press briefing that the administration is calling on Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey to agree in order to bring peace to the Twin Cities.
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«Number one, Governor Walz, Mayor Frye and all Democrat leaders should turn over all criminal illegal aliens currently incarcerated in their prisons and jails to federal authorities, along with any illegal aliens with active warrants or known criminal histories for immediate deportation,» Leavitt said. «Number two, state and local law enforcement must agree to turn over all illegal aliens who are arrested by local police. And then thirdly, local police must assist federal law enforcement in apprehending and detaining illegal aliens who are wanted for crimes, especially violent crimes.»
Walz and Trump shared what was described as a productive phone call Monday morning, with the state calling on the president to work together to quell the chaos, Trump said on Truth Social.
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Chinese hackers reportedly breached phones at ‘heart of Downing Street’ in global spy campaign
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Chinese state-linked hackers breached mobile phones at «the heart of Downing Street» amid a global cyber-espionage campaign over several years targeting telecommunication networks, according to reports.
U.S. officials first alerted its allies in 2024 after finding out that hacking groups had gained access to telecom companies around the world, according to The Associated Press.
The campaign reportedly targeted multiple countries, including the U.S. and the other members of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance: Australia, Canada and New Zealand.
The breaches allegedly gave China access to the phone data of millions and the possible ability to eavesdrop on calls, read text messages and track users’ locations.
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Chinese cyberattacks reportedly reached «the heart» of the U.K.’s Downing Street, a source told The Telegraph. (Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images)
The hackers also had the ability to record calls «at will» according to Anne Neuberger, who was a deputy U.S. national security adviser between January 2021 and January 2025, The Telegraph reported.
Neuberger said that the «Chinese gained access to networks and essentially had broad and full access,» giving them the capability to «geolocate millions of individuals, to record phone calls at will.»
U.S. intelligence agencies believe the breaches date back to at least 2021, but they were only identified and disclosed by U.S. authorities in 2024.
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A source told The Telegraph that the breach went «right into the heart of Downing Street.» (Leon Neal/Getty Images)
In 2024, The Associated Press reported that U.S. federal authorities urged telecommunication companies to boost network security. The guidance, issued by the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, was to help root out the hackers and prevent similar attacks in the future.
A joint cybersecurity advisory was issued in August 2025, with the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and allied partners warning that Chinese state-sponsored actors were targeting networks globally.
«The malicious activity outlined in the advisory partially overlaps with cybersecurity industry reporting on Chinese state-sponsored threat actors referred to by names such as Salt Typhoon,» an NSA release said.
In the U.K., officials raised concerns that senior government figures may also have been exposed. One source told The Telegraph that the breach went «right into the heart of Downing Street.»
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There were reportedly «many» hacking attacks on phones across the British government, particularly under the tenure of Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. (Hannah McKay/Reuters)
Similarly, The Telegraph was told that there were «many» different hacking attacks on the phones of Downing Street staff and across wider government, especially when Rishi Sunak was prime minister between 2022 and 2024.
Yuval Wollman, a former Israeli intelligence chief, also told The Telegraph that Salt Typhoon was «one of the most prominent names» in the cyber-espionage world.
«While much of the public reporting has focused on U.S. targets, Salt Typhoon’s operations have extended into Europe, the Middle East and Africa, where it has targeted telecoms firms, government entities and technology companies,» Wollman of cybersecurity platform CyberProof added.
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In the past, China’s foreign ministry dismissed the claims as «baseless» and «lacking evidence,» according to The Telegraph.
Fox News Digital has reached out to Downing Street for comment.
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