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Why are Texas flags at half‑staff and what’s the death toll from the July 4th floods?
Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. Flags are flying at half staff across Texas today on Governor Greg Abbott's orders to honor the victims. The fourth of July weekend floods. The death toll statewide has climbed to one hundred ten. The vast majority of the losses in Kerr County. Governor Abbott says more than one hundred and sixty individuals are still unaccounted for. And BR's Frank Morris reports search parties say their grim work is far from over.
The Guadalupe River buried some of its victims in huge, dense jumbals of logs and steel debris. That's why they're hard to find.
How are volunteers and search teams locating victims in the Guadalupe River debris?
On a well-searched section of river near Ingram, Texas, volunteers for the group Texas Equisearch think they found another body. Mark Edwards, the group's field operation manager, points to heavy equipment carefully disassembling a tangled mess.
And so we begin to remove that tree pile. And some of those tree piles were thirty and forty foot tall, wrapped in RVs and cars up against the trees.
Edwards says there are miles and miles of scenes like this along the Guadalupe River. He thinks finding all the bodies will take weeks. Frank Morris, NPR News, Kerrville, Texas.
A US Supreme Court ruling's clearing the way for the Trump administration to lay off hundreds of thousands of federal workers. Pierre Zandria shoe reports on the impact on agencies.
What does the Supreme Court ruling mean for the Trump administration’s federal‑worker layoffs?
This affects close to twenty agencies, including very large ones like the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Agriculture, the Treasury Department, and many others. And in some cases, like at Health and Human Services, some 10,000 employees had already been issued layoff notices. And the reason most of them are still on the payroll is because of that lower court order that's now gone for now anyway. We don't know how soon people might be formally separated. Yeah.
Pierre's Andrea Shoe reporting. A day after meeting with President Trump about Gaza ceasefire talks, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Was expected to meet today with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon. The administration has expressed optimism of an agreement this week that leads to a truce between Israel and Hamas and the release of living and deceased hostages.
What are the latest developments in the Israel‑Hamas ceasefire talks after Netanyahu’s meeting with the Pentagon?
In Turkey, an imprisoned Kurdish leader has been heard from for the first time in decades, calling on the militant group he founded to disarm. Here's NPR's Jayna Raf.
Amdala Ochalan founded the Kurdistan Workers Party, the PKK, and he's been imprisoned since nineteen ninety nine. Ochalan is revered by many Kurds, but Turkey and the US consider the PKK terrorists, and the public hasn't heard his voice in more than twenty years. On Wednesday, the Turkish government allowed the release of a video address by Ochilan.
US stocks are trading higher this hour with the Dow up eighty eight points at forty four thousand three hundred twenty nine. The SP's risen nineteen points and the Nasdaq is up one hundred fifteen points. You're listening to NPR News. Today, the chipmaker NVIDIA became the first public company to surpass four trillion dollars in value, benefiting from the AI boom, and early trading shares climbed two and a half percent to top one hundred sixty-four dollars each.
Why is the imprisoned Kurdish leader’s video address significant for the PKK and Turkey‑US relations?
Veteran ad executive Linda Yuacarino is stepping down as a CEO of Elon Musk's company X. In a message posted on the social media platform today, he wrote, The best is yet to come as X enters a new chapter with Musk's AI company, XAI. An official sentencing date has been set for hip hop mogul Sean Combs. As many legal experts expected, it'll be in October. The sex trafficking trial against him, which lasted two months, resulted in a split verdict. NPR's Isabella Sadmiento reports with bail denied last week, it'll remain locked up ahead of the sentencing hearing.
Combs will be sentenced for two counts of transportation for prostitution. A federal jury in Manhattan acquitted him of the most serious charges he faced sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy. Combs faces up to twenty years in prison for both counts.
How did NVIDIA become the first company to top a $4 trillion market value amid the AI boom?
Judge Arun Sabramanian will announce his sentence on October third.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
Why are Texas flags at half‑staff and what’s the death toll from the July 4th floods?
0:01–0:39
2
How are volunteers and search teams locating victims in the Guadalupe River debris?
0:39–1:24
3
What does the Supreme Court ruling mean for the Trump administration’s federal‑worker layoffs?
1:24–2:12
4
What are the latest developments in the Israel‑Hamas ceasefire talks after Netanyahu’s meeting with the Pentagon?
2:12–3:16
5
Why is the imprisoned Kurdish leader’s video address significant for the PKK and Turkey‑US relations?
3:16–4:08
6
How did NVIDIA become the first company to top a $4 trillion market value amid the AI boom?
4:08–4:38