The Agonizing Search in Texas, and a Looming Trade Deadline

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On Today’s Episode:

• Harrowing Tales Emerge in Texas as Rescuers Keep Up Search for Missing, by Edgar Sandoval, Amy Graff and Jill Cowan

• As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas, by Christopher Flavelle

• Social Security Email Says Policy Bill Eliminates Tax on Benefits. Does It?, by Tara Siegel Bernard

• Tax Cuts Now, Benefit Cuts Later: The Timeline in the Republican Megabill, by Tony Romm, Andrew Duehren, Margot Sanger-Katz, Brad Plumer and Daniel Wood

• U.S. Turns Eight Migrants Over to South Sudan, Ending Weeks of Legal Limbo, by Mattathias Schwartz and Hamed Aleaziz

• Trump Keeps Foreign Countries on Edge as Tariff Deadline Nears, by Ana Swanson

• With One War Over, Netanyahu Heads to Washington Amid Calls to End Another, by Isabel Kershner

• Yes, Your TV Is Probably Spying on You. Your Fridge, Too. Here’s What They Know, by Rachel Cericola, Jon Chase and Lee Neikirk

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