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Thunderstorms and torrential rain brought another wave of violent floods Tuesday that caved in roads, crushed vehicles, pushed homes off their foundations and led to dramatic boat rescues in north-eastern Vermont, nearly three weeks after flooding from Hurricane Beryl.

Flash flood warnings remained in effect through Tuesday afternoon hours after some areas got 6 to more than 8in (15 to more than 20cm) starting late the night before.

In Lyndonville, a village about 40 miles (64km) north-east of Montpelier, the state capital, Deryck Colburn said he awoke before daybreak to a neighbor pounding on his door. Colburn said he heard the same surge of rushing water from an overflowing brook that he’d heard earlier in July, along with the unnerving sound of tumbling boulders carried by the water.

“I went down the road to her house, and there was no road. There was just a river,” he said.

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Senior FBI and Secret Service officials painted the fullest picture yet of the communications breakdowns that allowed former President Donald Trump's shooter to open fire and offered other key details about the assassination attempt at a Tuesday Senate hearing.

The hearing focused on the ongoing investigation into how a 20-year-old managed to fire a bullet into Trump's ear at a Pennsylvania political rally.

Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe said he was "ashamed" and "cannot defend" the lapses that nearly led to the first assassination of a current or former president in more than 60 years.

Rowe assumed his acting role last week, after Kimberly Cheatle stepped down as Secret Service director on July 23 as part of the fallout from the attack, which took the life of 50-year-old firefighter and father Corey Comperatore.

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Donald Trump has agreed to participate in a victim interview with the FBI regarding his attempted assassination earlier this month, the bureau told reporters on Monday.

This comes as authorities continue their investigations into the 13 July shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, where 20-year-old Thomas Matthews Crooks fired eight shots from an assault rifle which hit and injured the former president, killed a rally attendee and injured several others. Crooks was killed by government snipers moments after the shooting began.

On Sunday, new details around the shooting emerged from text messages between local security units, obtained by the Republican senator Chuck Grassley and published and verified by the New York Times, including that local law enforcement had spotted the shooter 30 minutes earlier than what officials had previously said.

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+After the ex-Trump adviser Robert Morris stepped down from his role as pastor at a Texas megachurch in June following a child sal abuse scandal, another Texas megachurch pastor has stepped down over accusations of “inappropriate” behavior.

Cross Timbers church in the Fort Worth suburb of Argyle announced, in a sermon on Sunday, the resignation of its lead pastor, Josiah Anthony.

The details surrounding Anthony’s inappropriate behavior have not been made public, but church officials have clarified in a statement that it “does not include any children, physical or sexual interactions or any illegal activity to our knowledge”.

In a now deleted recording of Sunday’s sermon posted on the church’s Facebook page, church elder John Chalk read aloud a statement to the congregation: “Josiah has been in a prolonged and sustained season of struggle with his emotional and mental health which has been very painful for him and those around him.

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Fire crews made progress in the battle against major wildfires that have left a trail of damage in the western United States, but thousands of firefighters continue to tackle the flames.

In northern California, the Park fire grew at ferocious speeds to become one of the largest wildfires in the state this year. In southern California, a blaze swept through the historic mining town of Havilah. And in Oregon and Idaho, authorities were assessing the damage caused by several large wildfires raging there.

The fires are some of more than 100 blazes burning in the US at the moment. Some were lit, but many were sparked by the weather, with climate change increasing the frequency of lightning strikes as the western US endures blistering heat and bone-dry conditions.

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A 4.5 magnitude earthquake struck near Cedar City, Utah, around 11:30 p.m. Sunday night, according to the United States Geological Survey.

The epicenter of the quake was about 19 miles southwest of Cedar City and about 233 miles southwest of Salt Lake City, according to the USGS. No damage or injuries were immediately reported.

The USGS said the earthquake struck at a depth of about 19.6 kilometers, which is about 12 miles. There was light to moderate shaking felt in the area of the epicenter, with people as far north as Beaver, Utah, reporting having felt it. People as far southwest as Las Vegas reported some weak shaking.

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