
Rabbi 'overflowing with gratitude' as community rallies around his congregation following hours-long hostage standoff
CNN
Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker's voice quavered Monday night as he described his emotions since he and three others escaped a hostage situation at his synagogue Saturday.
The enormity of the ordeal in Colleyville, Texas -- being held at gunpoint for hours and making a bold but terrifying escape -- is difficult to process, he said, but a wave of support from his community and the others around the world left him optimistic that his congregation will recover.

Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before rushing waters swept away children and counselors, a review by The Associated Press found.

Two of the most senior figures in the US government — Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the White House chief of staff — have been impersonated in recent weeks using artificial intelligence — a tactic that harnesses a rapidly developing technology that cybersecurity experts say is becoming the “new normal” in terms of cheap and easy scams targeting senior US officials.