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How is the makeshift memorial in Kerrville honoring the July‑4 flood victims?

Dale Willman 0:01

Live from NPR News, I'm Dale Wilman. A makeshift memorial is growing in Kerrville, Texas, just a few hundred feet from the Guadalupe River. The memorial pays tribute to the victims of the July fourth flooding that has killed at least one hundred and twenty-eight people. At least one hundred sixty other people are still missing. Sailie Aranda of Texas Public Radio reports.

Unknown 0:19

Every day, more pictures are added to the memorial, and every picture is surrounded by flowers, turning what was a chainling fence into a tribute to the victims. Alicia Duff brought her daughter Iliana to the memorial after picking her up from a camp about an hour away. Duff decided to stop by because one of the camp miss girls who died in the floods was Iliana's friend. kinda hard to get through this stuff as an adult, you know.

What details are known about the Lexington, Kentucky mass shooting and its suspect?

Unknown 0:47

Another thing is when, you know, kids are Losing a friend that's a child of a child age I think is a it's a whole nother Whole nother process of grief. The search and recovery mission was halted Sunday due to rain, but many still showed up at the memorial to pay their respects and grief. I'm Celia Randa in Kerville.

Dale Willman 1:07

Police in Lexington, Kentucky are investigating a mass shooting in which two people died. They say the suspect shot a state trooper during a traffic stop, then carjacked a vehicle and drove to the Richmond Road Baptist

Lawrence Weathers 1:18

Church. Preliminary information indicates that the suspect may have had a connection to the individuals at the church.

Dale Willman 1:30

Lexington Police Chief Lawrence Weathers says two other people were shot and wounded.

How are President Trump's tariffs and upcoming inflation data affecting Wall Street earnings?

Dale Willman 1:40

It will be a busy week on Wall Street with the latest inflation data coming out on Tuesday, and as NPR's Raphael Nam reports, big banks will be reporting their earnings, including JP Morgan Chase.

Rafael Nam 1:51

One of the big questions for investors is when we are going to start seeing the effects of President Trump's tariffs. Although he's put on hold many of them, others are still in place, including a ten percent tariff on nearly everything the US imports. But inflation has been fairly tame so far, in part because companies got ahead of the import taxes by bringing in their shipments as quickly as they could. And many companies have also chosen to eat the cost for now. We'll also get the latest retail sales data, giving us an indication of whether consumers are getting cautious. And several big companies will start reporting earnings, including Wells Fargo and Citigroup, Raphael Num and PR New.

Dale Willman 2:34

President Trump says he'll send Patriot air defense missiles to Ukraine. Speaking with reporters on Sunday, he said the missiles are needed to defend Ukraine because Russian President Vladimir Putin talks nice, he said, but then he bombs everyone in the evening.

Why does President Trump say the U.S. will send Patriot missiles to Ukraine and expect reimbursement?

Dale Willman 2:48

Trump says the US will be reimbursed for the cost of all the missiles sent by the European Union. I'm Dale Willman and you're listening to NPR News. In a major speech on the eve of France's national holiday Bastille Day, President Emmanuel Macron says the country will double defense spending within two years. He pointed to multiple threats facing the country, particularly from Russia for the increase. Empire Zellander Bierza reports that Macron said to be free you must be feared.

Eleanor Beardsley 3:17

Macron said France would increase defense spending from thirty two billion a year to sixty four billion by twenty twenty seven, mostly because of the threat from Russia. The permanence of a Russian threat on Europe's borders organized and long term is something we have to be capable of facing, said Macron. He said Europe's future would be determined by that and by the necessity of organizing to respond to it. France's top defense chief of staff said this week that Russia posed a durable threat to Europe and that the quote rank of European countries in tomorrow's world was being decided in Ukraine.

What defense spending increases did President Macron announce for France ahead of Bastille Day?

Eleanor Beardsley 3:59

Eleanor Beersley, NPR News, Paris.

Dale Willman 4:01

Yannick Center be two-time defending champion Carlos Alcaraz Sunday to win the Wimbledon men's title. The victory gives Center his fourth Grand Slam title, and it allowed him to stop several streaks for Alcaraz.