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 At least 82 people have died in central Texas after a flash flood last week. Searchers are continuing to look for victims.
In this photo released by the Indonesian National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) rescuers search for victims after a ferry enroute for the resort island of Bali sank off Ketapang, East Java, Indonesia on Thursday. BASARNAS/AP/BASARNAS via AP hide caption toggle caption BASARNAS/AP/BASARNAS via AP JAKARTA, Indonesia — Rescuers were searching Thursday for 32 people
Security guards stand watch as Haiti's Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aime, center, talks with the Mexico's Charge d'Affaires Jesus Cisneros after attending an event marking one year since the start of the Multinational Security Support Mission in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Thursday. Odelyn Joseph/AP hide caption toggle caption Odelyn Joseph/AP UNITED NATIONS — Haiti's gangs have
President Trump attends a press conference in Hanoi on Nov. 12, 2017, during his first term in office. Luong Thai Linh/AFP Contributor/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Luong Thai Linh/AFP Contributor/AFP via Getty Images President Trump says the U.S. has made a trade deal with Vietnam as part of his push to renegotiate
Jackie Lay/NPR Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares snapshots of moments from their lives and work around the world. In November, during one of the last weeks of my posting in Taiwan, I went to my favorite place there: the red cypress forests of Alishan, a region renowned for
A man carries a child, who was wounded in an Israeli strike, after being treated in the Shifa Hospital, Gaza City on Monday. Jehad Alshrafi/AP hide caption toggle caption Jehad Alshrafi/AP CAIRO (AP) — Israeli forces killed at least 74 people in Gaza on Monday with airstrikes that left 30 dead at a seaside cafe
National Guards patrol the streets in Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico in October 2024 /AP hide caption toggle caption /AP MEXICO CITY — Four decapitated bodies were found hanging from a bridge in the capital of western Mexico's Sinaloa state on Monday, part of a surge of cartel violence that killed 20 people in less than
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney holds a closing press conference following the NATO Summit in The Hague, Netherlands on Wednesday, June 25. Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP hide caption toggle caption Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP TORONTO — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said late Sunday trade talks with U.S. have resumed after
