The House of Representatives has approved a White House request to claw back two years of previously approved funding for public media.

The recisions package now moves on to the Senate.

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Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Herbst. A Senate committee says there were multiple preventable failures at the Secret Service before the assassination attempt against President Trump last summer.

MPIRS Joe Hernandez has more.

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee

blamed the Secret Service for a communication breakdown before and during the Pennsylvania rally.

According to the committee, there were reports of a suspicious person with a rangefinder

25 minutes before the shooting, but that information

didn't make it to Trump's detail before he took the stage.

Trump and two others were wounded in the shooting, and one rally goer was killed.

A Secret Service sniper shot and killed the perpetrator.

In a statement, Secret Service director Sean Curran said the agency has been taking steps

to address the failures that occurred during the attack last July, including streamlining the agency's communication procedures.

Joe Hernandez, NPR News.

In Kerrville, Texas, flash flood warnings returned as strong rains hit the area, forcing crews to temporarily stop their search for the more

than 160 people still missing from the deadly July 4th floods. At least 128 people died.

Steve Futterman has more. It was the strongest downpour here since July 4th and very quickly

officials stepped in, bringing to a halt search and rescue efforts along with debris removal.

There were some reports of flooding, some streets were shut down, but nothing even close to approaching the historic flood surge that has killed so many.

Still, after what this area has experienced, people were understandably nervous like Patty Stark from nearby Red

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