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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janene Hurst. In central Texas, rescue crews are searching for more than two dozen children missing from a summer camp after being swept downstream after flash flooding hit the Guapanoupa River. Officials say at least 32 people are dead, 18 adults and 14 children. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem says the number one priority is to find the missing and... Also, throughout the process, we'll get into what damage was done to public infrastructure, what may have been done to...I know we have 1,800 people that are still without power. What I understand is people still have water, but we do have damage to bridges and to roads,

thankfully dams held. Governor Abbott says he's asking the White House for a federal disaster declaration. Climate change is driving more extreme rainfall events across most of the U.S., making dangerous flooding more likely. In Texas, the heaviest rainstorms now drop about 20 percent more rain than they did in the late 1950s. That's according to the National Climate Assessment. And the National Weather Service says more rain is in the forecast today. President Trump is spending today at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, but he's facing a busy week with tariffs and foreign policy. And Piers Daniel Kurtzleben has more.

Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu will visit the White House on Monday as Trump pushes for a ceasefire in the conflict in Gaza. This would be Netanyahu's third visit to the White House this year. Trump will also turn his attention to trade, where he says he will on Monday start sending letters to countries worldwide informing them of the tariff rates the US will impose on their goods. In April, Trump had imposed tariffs on most countries, then dialed all those tariffs back to 10% when markets panicked.

He set a deadline of July 9th when tariffs would jump back up unless he signed tariff deals with all those countries by then. Thus far, he has announced two deals with the UK and Vietnam. Danielle Kurtzleben and PR News. Leaders from some of the world's leading developing economies are in Brazil this weekend for the annual BRICS Summit set to begin tomorrow. Billed as the emerging global south's counterweight to the West's G7 economies, it recently underwent a rapid expansion that some analysts say diluted its relevance. And here's Kari Cahn reports. BRICS expansion will be on full view during the two-day meeting as well as its growing pains. Newly admitted Iran will attend, hoping to find solidarity finding its recent 12-day

war. BRICS had issued a strong rebuke of airstrikes, but given some of its newest members, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE have closer ties to the US, the group stopped short of directly criticizing the US. Its growing ranks is also making consensus more difficult, weakening BRICS' alternative clout, say critics. Brazil's leader, Luisa Nacielula da Silva, who wraps up the country's one-year BRICS alternative clout say critics. Brazil's leader Luisa Nacciolula da Silva, who wraps up the country's one-year BRICS presidency, hopes to bring the group back

to its roots with global development and combating climate change top of the agenda. Carrie Kahn, NPR News, Rio de Janeiro. You're listening to NPR News. Self-help writer Mel Robbins is winning at the bookstore. Her book, Let Them Theory, is currently the best-selling book of the year. So far, MPRO's Andrew Limbong has more. Here's how Mel Robbins explained her Let Them Theory to ITV earlier this year. Any moment you feel stressed, out, worried, annoyed, frustrated in life, you just say, let them.

That's it. You don't even need to buy the book. Of course people did buy the book. It sold 1.7 million print copies in 2025. According to Sir Conner book scan. In second place is the Hunger Games prequel Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins. And all three books in Rebecca Yarrows is Empyrean series made the top 10. Another author, still moving product after many years is Dr. Seuss. Oh, the Places You'll Go sold another 436,000 copies,

making it the seventh bestselling book in 2025 so far. Andrew Limbong and Pierre News. Nissan says it's recalling nearly a half a million vehicles in the US andS. and Canada because of possible manufacturing defects that could cause engine failure. The recall covers certain 2021 to 2024 Nissan Rogues, 2019 to 2020 Altimas, along with a number of 2019 to 2022 Infiniti QX50s and QX55s. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says the vehicles impacted have the specific VC turbo engines that may have manufacturing defects in their bearings.

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