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What is the latest update on the Texas Hill Country flood aftermath and missing persons?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Rom. Texas officials now say there are three people missing after the floods in hill country on the fourth of July, down from nearly one hundred. At least one hundred thirty five people died. The state legislature begins a thirty day special session tomorrow to consider disaster relief and how to better prepare for disasters. Republican lawmakers will also push to redraw the state's congressional map. Which is not usually done in the middle of a decade. The Texas newsroom's Blaze Gainey has more.
Typically states redraw districts at the top of the decade once the population estimates from the census are released. But President Trump has urged Texas to redraw those congressional lines ahead of the midterm elections. He believes there's at least five more seats the U.S. for the U.S. House here.
How is Texas planning disaster relief while also pushing a mid‑decade congressional redistricting?
And the Justice Department has said that most of those come from what looks like constitutional gerrymandering right now in heavy Democratic voting blocks around Houston.
Blaze Ganey reporting Police in Los Angeles say they believe the suspect who rammed his car into a group of people outside a Hollywood nightclub acted deliberately, Steve Futterman reports.
Police believe the suspect, 29-year-old Fernando Ramirez, became enraged when he was told to leave the nightclub. Initially he began driving away, but then allegedly made a sudden U-turn and crashed his car into dozens of people. Angry bystanders pulled him from the vehicle and began beating him. Ramirez was also shot in the buttocks. Los Angeles police officer Jeffrey Lee.
The suspect in the shooting uh is still outstanding. We consider him armed and dangerous and possibly carrying a silver revolver.
Police have ordered Ramirez detained on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. Formal criminal charges could come from the district attorney in the upcoming week. For MPR News, I'm Steve Futterman in East Hollywood, California.
What happened during the Hollywood nightclub car‑ramming incident and what charges are expected?
Brazil's president is criticizing the Trump administration for pressuring Brazil's judiciary to drop a criminal case against the country's ex-president. NPR's Carrie Kahn has more in the story.
Brazil's President Luis Ignacio Lula de Silva says the visa revocations are, quote, arbitrary and completely unfounded. On his official social media accounts, Lula wrote, I am certain that no form of intimidation or threat will compromise Brazil's mission to defend and uphold the democratic rule of law. Friday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the visa restrictions for multiple. Supreme Court justices, their family members, and quote allies. The U.S.'s main target, according to Rubio, is Justice Alexandre de Moraes. Morais is leading the case of former far right President Jair Bolsonaro, a Trump ally. Bolsonaro is facing charges he tried to overturn his twenty twenty two reelection loss and plotted a coup to stay in power.
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in Washington. A US brokered ceasefire in Syria appears to be holding its estimated hundreds died last week in clashes between Sunni Bedouins and militias of the Druze religious Minarni.
Why is Brazil’s president criticizing U.S. pressure on its judiciary over visa revocations?
Now that the fighting has stopped, humanitarian groups have begun sending in trucks with food, medicine, and water. The Palestinian Health Ministry says at least ninety four people were killed by Israeli military fire today. As they were waiting for food at aid distribution sites in Gaza, Local health officials say hundreds of people have died in recent months trying to get food. The Trump administration is calling on Americans to have more babies. But in some states, advocates and parents say they need more support with the babies already being born, starting at birth. NPR's KT
Brittle reports. Trust in medical institutions is on the decline across the country, and people are looking for safe alternatives to hospitals to have their babies. But in some states, that's hard to find. Katie Chubb has been trying to open a birth center in Augusta for years. She says not enough care is paid to maternal and child outcomes.
How is the U.S.–brokered ceasefire in Syria affecting humanitarian aid and the situation in Gaza?
It's a massive concern here in Georgia where we're so focused on being pro life, but yet we're not caring about the life past twenty weeks.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the latest update on the Texas Hill Country flood aftermath and missing persons?
0:00–0:48
2
How is Texas planning disaster relief while also pushing a mid‑decade congressional redistricting?
0:48–1:54
3
What happened during the Hollywood nightclub car‑ramming incident and what charges are expected?
1:54–3:12
4
Why is Brazil’s president criticizing U.S. pressure on its judiciary over visa revocations?
3:12–4:05
5
How is the U.S.–brokered ceasefire in Syria affecting humanitarian aid and the situation in Gaza?
4:05–4:26
6
What challenges are families facing in opening new birth centers and improving maternal care?
4:26–4:39