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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Norah Rahm. More than one hundred seventy people are missing more than a week after a devastating flood in central Texas. That killed at least one hundred and twenty people. President Trump visited the hard-hit city of Kerrville yesterday. As NPR's Elena Moore reports, he met with affected families and first responders. During
a round table with elected officials, Trump reflected on the massive loss felt by this community.
That are left behind. It's amazing the The incredible spirit from those families. I I don't know. I don't even know. How they do it.
More than one hundred people have been reported dead, and many remain missing. Trump is standing by his administration's response, but lingering concerns remain over how well equipped the area was. Plus, the future of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, is still unclear. Before the recent flooding, Trump said he wanted to dismantle it and shift responsibilities to the states. He has not said whether those plans have changed. Elena Moore, NPR News, Kerrville, Texas.
A federal judge in Los Angeles has ordered the Trump administration to stop immigration sweeps where federal agents are rounding people up for deportation indiscriminately. As NPR's Adrian Florido reports, the ruling came after the ACLU and other groups had sued.
The lawsuit alleges that federal agents in Southern California have been stopping and arresting people based on the color of their skin, their accents, or because they're doing work commonly done by immigrants. In her ruling, US District Court Judge Mame Ewesu Mensa Frimpong said there's a mountain of evidence that agents are arresting people illegally. Mark Rosenbaum is a lawyer with public counsel.
It is a complete repudiation. Of the racial profiling tactics. And I think it means that the rule of law is back in Los Angeles. The
Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman criticized the judge, saying she's undermining the will of the American people. Adrian Flarido and Pierre News, Los Angeles.
The first report into the crash of an Air India plane last month was released today. India's aviation administers urged against jumping to conclusions, but experts have said the switches cannot be moved accidentally, the BBC's Arkana Shukla reports.
The preliminary report does indicate that it was the fuel controlled switches that were moved from the run to the cutoff position, cutting off the fuel supply to both the engines that could have led to both the engines failing and losing thrust and eventually sinking. The cockpit voice recorder also suggests that there was a confusion in the cockpit about what really had happened, with one pilot asking the other.
This is NPR News. David Gherkin, a longtime presidential speechwriter, counselor, and communications director, died in Massachusetts Thursday after a long illness. He worked across administrations before turning to political commentary. David Gergen was eighty-three. NPR's Amy
Held reports. Born in North Carolina, David Gergen was a Navy veteran, educator, lawyer, and journalist. As White House advisor, he shaped much of what we know about four presidents: Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton. Gergen, a self-described centrist, told Fresh Air in 2000, serving both parties was the right thing to do. There is a long and I think honorable tradition in this country of people from the other party helping presidents when they're in trouble. But he regretted his role in what he called spin patrol. And it's been one of my greatest regrets in public life is the degree to which, while I thought what we did in the early eighties was appropriate, I think it did help to open the door to what has become very, very excessive.
So that now spin has become almost an art form of manipulation and What Americans want, Gergen said, is straight talk. Amy Held N PR News. President
Trump announced today he's imposing a tariff of thirty percent on goods imported from the European Union and Mexico starting August first. In a letter to the president of Mexico, he said Mexico has been helpful in stemming the flow of migrants and fentanyl into the US.
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