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There have been more than 100 deaths following the flash floods in Texas, and dozens more are still unaccounted for. We remember some of those lost in the floods.

NPR's Michel Martin asks U.S. Coast Guard Air Operations Officer Nathan Shakespeare about his work coordinating rescues in the Texas flood zone from a base in Corpus Christi.

A beluga whale at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium is the first to successfully recover from general anesthesia in captivity after a surgery to remove a network of cysts.

Leaders in the BRICS group of emerging economies ended their recent summit with calls for less confrontation in the world. But that plea didn't go over well with President Trump.