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Plus, what your TV knows about you. On Today’s Episode: Harrowing Tales Emerge in Texas as Rescuers Keep Up Search for Missing , by Edgar Sandoval, Amy Graff and Jill Cowan As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas , by Christopher Flavelle Social Security Email Says Policy Bill Eliminates Tax on Benefits. Does It? , by Tara Siegel Bernard Tax Cuts Now, Benefit Cuts Later: The Timeline in the Republican Megabill , by Tony Romm, Andrew Duehren, Margot Sanger-Katz, Brad Plumer and Daniel Wood U.S. Turns Eight Migrants Over to South Sudan, Ending Weeks of Legal Limbo , by Mattathias Schwartz and Hamed Aleaziz Trump Keeps Foreign Countries on Edge as Tariff Deadline Nears , by Ana Swanson With One War Over, Netanyahu Heads to Washington Amid Calls to End Another , by Isabel Kershner Yes, Your TV Is Probably Spying on You. Your Fridge, Too. Here’s What They Know , by Rachel Cericola, Jon Chase and Lee Neikirk Tune in every weekday morning. To get our full audio journalism and storytelling experience, download the New York Times Audio app — available to Times news subscribers on iOS — and sign up for our weekly newsletter. Tell us what you think at: theheadlines@nytimes.com. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher . For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.