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What’s the latest update on the Texas flooding and the missing summer campers?

Louise Schiavone 0:01

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Louise Schiavoni. Amid rescue efforts along the Guadalupe River in Texas, the National Weather Service is forecasting more excessive rain and flooding. In the wake of Friday flooding, the search is on for at least 20 summer campers in Kerrville, Texas. More than 200 people have been rescued, 24 have died. Texas Public Radio's Dan Katz has more.

Unknown 0:24

Governor Greg Abbott says the state will work day and night to find people who may be stranded and unable to call for help. That includes missing children from an all-girls Christian camp called Camp Mystic that was engulfed by the Guadalupe River. We will stop at nothing. to ensure that every asset and person and plane and whatever is needed. It's gonna be involved in the process of rescuing every last person. Two hundred and thirty-seven people have been rescued since the flooding began Friday morning. Local officials say they were caught off guard by how hard the downpour came in, with the river rising as much as twenty five feet in forty five minutes.

How is Governor Greg Abbott coordinating the rescue effort for stranded residents?

Unknown 1:02

For NPR News, I'm Dan Katz.

Louise Schiavone 1:05

National Weather Service has upgraded a tropical storm watch to a warning for tropical storm Chantal. It's expected to produce heavy rain along the Carolina coast over the next couple of days. President Trump is at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey for the weekend, having signed a massive domestic agenda bill into law at a White House Independence Day picnic. In the coming week, the President's tariff agenda will continue to unfold. Speaking with reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump said that he preferred to communicate trade details with nations individually. Which is the reason behind tariff letters going out on Monday.

Unknown 1:41

And you can't sit down with two hundred countries. I think the letters are better. I think a simple tariff is simpler than and better than sitting down and working fifteen different things. You know, with the UK we did that.

Louise Schiavone 1:54

There are 1,500 federally funded community health clinics providing affordable care to more than three million Americans.

What are the implications of the upgraded Tropical Storm Chantal warning for the Carolina coast?

Louise Schiavone 2:00

The latest tax and spending law could have a big impact, NPR's Yuki Naguchi reports.

Yuki Noguchi 2:07

About half of such centers patients rely on Medicaid, meaning the centers do too for revenue. The new law's cutbacks to that program mean many will no longer get payment and will have to close or cut back on services, according to Joe Dunn at the National Association of Community Health Centers. That, he says, will hit rural areas hard.

Unknown 2:30

Health centers are largely the only primary care network in the community. And so if there's a closure or reduction in services, then it's going to be felt um even more so than in maybe a suburban or urban um setting because there's just not as many uh other options out there. Yukinaguchi and PR News.

Louise Schiavone 2:48

Ukraine says it struck a Russian airbase today targeting a depot and aircraft while Russia launched over three hundred drones into Ukraine overnight. This is NPR News. Pittsburgh hosted some of the world's most elaborate facial hair this week. Competitors from across the globe traveled to the Steel City for the twenty twenty-five World Beard and Moustache Championships. WESA's Eliahu Gasin has the t story.

Why does President Trump prefer bilateral tariff letters over multilateral trade talks?

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Goatees, sideburns, beards braided like ropes. This facial hair isn't grown, it's engineered. And it's competing in categories like full beard natural ten to twenty centimeters and Alaskan Whaler, which is a full beard without a mustache. Everything else aside, it's usually the cause. This is an amazing group of people who will rally together for just about any cause you could think of. Proceeds from this world beard and mustache championship go to charity in the Pittsburgh region. The championships happen every two years. In twenty twenty seven they'll be in Blackpool, England. For NPR News, I'm Eliyahu Gasin in Pittsburgh.

Louise Schiavone 3:57

Pope Leo XV is starting a two month vacation this weekend at the Papal Summer Retreat south of Rome. This is the first break since the American Pope's historic election in May. Neighbors of the Pope at Castel Gondolfo say their hilltop town with its beautiful view during the day and quiet starry nights are just the thing for rest and contemplation.