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Hot weather poses new risk as thousands remain without power after deadly Houston storm

By LEKAN OYEKANMI DAVID J. PHILLIP and KEN MILLER - Associated Press
Updated 2 mins ago

As the Houston area works to clean up and restore power to hundreds of thousands after deadly storms left at least seven people dead, it will do so amid a smog warning and rising Texas heat. The National Weather Service in Houston warned people to know the symptoms of heat exhaustion as they begin cleanup. Temperatures of around 90 degrees are expected with heat indexes likely to climb to 100 degrees in the coming days. More than a half-million homes and businesses remained without power Saturday after Thursday’s storms whipped the area with thunderstorms and hurricane-force winds.

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US intelligence suggests American who vanished in Syria in 2017 has died, daughter says she was told

By ERIC TUCKER - Associated Press
Updated 12 mins ago

U.S. officials have developed highly credible intelligence suggesting that an American citizen who disappeared seven years ago while traveling in Syria has died. That word comes from the man's daughter. Maryam Kamalmaz said in an interview Saturday with The Associated Press that during a meeting in Washington earlier this month with eight senior American officials she was presented with detailed intelligence about the presumed death of her father, Majd. The Texas psychotherapist disappeared in 2017 while traveling in Syria to visit an elderly family member. The FBI has said he was stopped at a Syrian government checkpoint in a suburb of Damascus and hasn't been heard from since.