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NPR News: 07-08-2025 7PM EDT

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🗓️ 8 July 2025

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0:00.0

I'm Jesse Thorne. On Bolzai, George DeKé, he talks about when he learned he was gay.

0:05.5

He was growing up in L.A., surrounded by Mexican-American kit.

0:08.7

I realized I was different in another way, but this difference was not visible. It was inside me.

0:15.8

Plus, we remember the life and work of one of America's greatest pop musicians, Sly Stone.

0:21.7

It's on Bullseye for Maximumfund.org and NPR. Live from NPR news in Washington, I'm Windsor Johnston. Search and

0:29.8

rescue efforts are intensifying for more than 160 people who are still missing days after

0:36.1

flash floods killed more than 100 people in central Texas.

0:40.4

Volunteer teams from across the United States and Mexico have arrived in the Texas Hill country

0:45.7

to assist local responders. Brian Thrasher is the vice president of the United Cajun Navy, a volunteer-based

0:53.9

group helping with relief efforts.

0:56.4

When you get past the 48 to 60-hour mark, the survivability index really goes down a lot.

1:00.8

We always hold out hope for a miracle. But, you know, sometimes, and our canine team has had 11 hits now,

1:07.5

11 recovery since they've been here, Sometimes it's bringing someone's love one home

1:11.5

so they can bury them, observe their religious customs, brings closure. Governor Greg Abbott says

1:16.6

Serge Cruz will not stop working until everyone is located. The Supreme Court has handed the White

1:23.4

House a win. NPR's Nina Totenberg reports the justices have issued a decision that allows the

1:30.2

Trump administration to move ahead with plans to slash the federal workforce. Trump during his

1:35.6

first term followed the practice of previous presidents and asked Congress to allow him to carry out

1:41.2

this kind of reorganization. But like some other presidents before him,

1:45.3

Trump found Congress unwilling to do that. So this time, he didn't bother going to Congress.

1:50.7

A federal judge temporarily blocked Trump's plan, however, concluding that the president had exceeded

1:57.2

his authority in dramatically reshaping and all but eliminating many agencies,

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