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Texas flooding death toll climbs to 119 as search for more people continues; Poll: Most Americans say Trump has gone 'too far' on immigration; Consumer protection agency takes a big hit under Trump tax law; New England health clinics face closure, ask states to fill funding gap.

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The Public News Service Doha Newscast, July the 10th, 2025.

I'm Mike Clifford.

The number of people who have died from the flooding in Texas continues to rise.

As we follow this newscast, at least 119 dead throughout the state, officials said Wednesday morning.

That for the Guardian.

They report search crews continue to look for people as residents and news organizations question the government's alarm and warning systems.

In Kerr County, the area worst affected by last Friday's flood, at least 95 people had died.

The other 24 people who have died are from surrounding areas.

The Kerr County Sheriff said 59 adults and 36 children had died, with 27 bodies still unidentified.

The Guardian notes that people are slowly returning to their properties to survey the damage from the devastating flash flood as local officials continue with rescue, recovery and cleanup efforts.

Meantime, some 15 community and faith-based organizations gathered again this week outside the Geo Group ICE detention facility in Aurora, where a longtime Denver resident and activist is being held.

Protesters have gathered weekly after U.S.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Vizguerra during her work break at Target on March 17th.

Nate Casa with the Party for Socialism and Liberation was a safety marshal during the demonstration calling for her release.

We're here today to demand freedom for Janet Vizguerra.

She's been imprisoned by the Trump administration for exercising her first amendment right of free speech and to speak out for the unjust intentions of people like her and other immigrants across this country.

Vizguerra was recently named a 2025 recipient of the Robert F.

Kennedy Human Rights Award for her moral courage and willingness to act on convictions even at great personal risk.

ICE officials have called Vizguerra a convicted criminal alien for entering and remaining in the U.S. without proper documentation, an act the Trump administration considers illegal.

I'm Eric Galatas.

And the budget reconciliation bill signed by President Donald Trump doesn't just impact Medicaid and SNAP.

Consumer advocates worry Minnesotans and other Americans will see more harm from deceptive and abusive financial practices.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act nearly cuts in half funding for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Chappell with the nonprofit Consumer Reports says the office has consolidated tracking of consumer complaints and oversight among other regulatory agencies.

He says a weekend to CFPB makes it harder for people to seek help with credit report errors and payday loan issues.

We have a lot of problems with digital payment fraud.

If you send money to the wrong person or a scammer tries to pretend that they're your bank, we need to have a federal agency that goes to bat for the consumer in those situations.

The administration argues the agency is a weaponized arm of the bureaucracy.

Republican lawmakers adding the funding cut reduces waste and duplication of regulatory oversight.

I'm Mike Moen.

This is Public News Service.

Planned Parenthood and its member organizations throughout New England are asking state lawmakers to help ensure that clinics stay open and patients get the care they need.

A provision within the recently passed federal budget bill prohibits any providers that offer abortion care from receiving Medicaid reimbursements for any other health care services.

Lisa Margulies with the Planned Parenthood Maine Action Fund says with one in four patients on Medicaid, the state will need to fill that funding gap.

Our elected leaders must ensure Mainers can continue to access the care that is protected under Maine law.

Maine lawmakers have already approved six million dollars in one-time funding for the state's family planning network, which groups urged Congress to cut Medicaid access to the organization, despite federal law already restricting funding for most abortions.

I'm Katherine Carley.

And despite last-minute concessions in the Trump administration's budget, rural Alaska power providers face huge obstacles to distributing power to the most rural and isolated parts of the state.

Alaska's extreme weather and challenging geography already make power generation difficult and expensive. with fewer incentives to diversify, the state's most isolated places will be forced to continue relying on fossil fuels for their electricity.

The Kotzebue Electric Association's Pierre Lonewolf says the loss of tax incentives means critical alternative energy programs are dead in the water.

That has put the kibosh on our wind project, which we are partnering with the local tribe to install two more one megawatt wind turbines another megawatt or so of solar.

Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski voted for the budget bill, but only after she worked to secure some alternative energy tax incentives and funding for native whale hunters.

Back into the measure, I'm Mark Moran.

Finally, don't go into the water is a warning Illinois folks may want to heed.

A 2024 study released this week found that all state border beaches on Lake Michigan last year had evidence of contamination.

Findings from the Safe and Swimming report indicate these conditions could cause serious gastrointestinal and respiratory ailments.

And the data shows bacteria levels were well above the EPA's beach action value water quality standards.

Emily Kowalski with the Environment Illinois Research and Education Center explains the odds of exposure.

A hundred percent of those beaches had potentially unsafe levels of fecal indicator bacteria at least one day in 2024, meaning that swimmers were potentially at risk.

Weneca, Lloyd Park had the highest at 21.

Glencoe Park and Montrose Beaches had 14 days each.

I'm Terry Dee reporting.

This is by Clifford for Public News Service.

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