A summer’s worth of rain inundates Dallas

Torrential rain inundates Dallas; a Russian nationalist’s daughter is killed in a Moscow car explosion.

Tonight's Sentences was written by Jariel Arvin.

Months of rain fell overnight in Dallas

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• Thunderstorms brought several months’ worth of heavy rainfall to the Dallas/Fort Worth area overnight into Monday, triggering flash floods across the city. [Newsweek / Lauren Giella]
• Some areas recorded more than 10 inches of rain in just 12 hours. Dallas usually gets about eight inches of rain in summer. [AccuWeather / Allison Finch]
• When rain falls so quickly, it overwhelms paved surfaces, especially in urban areas, because the rainwater can’t penetrate the concrete; that can (and did) cause severe flash flooding. [Associated Press / Jamie Stengle and Jake Bleiberg]
• By Monday afternoon, rescue crews had responded to hundreds of emergency calls reporting traffic incidents and people stuck in high water. [Dallas Morning News]
• Scientists predict climate change will cause more frequent extreme rainfall events in the future as a warmer atmosphere holds more moisture. [Washington Post / Zach Rosenthal, Mary Beth Gahan, and Annabelle Timsit]

A Putin ally's daughter is killed in Moscow

• Russian security forces have accused Ukraine of killing the daughter of a prominent far-right nationalist in an explosion outside Moscow. [BBC]
• Commentator Darya Dugina, 29, died Saturday when a bomb went off in the car she was driving. She and her father, Alexander Dugin, have long advocated for Russia’s expansion into Ukraine. [Axios / Ivana Saric]
• Russia claims a Ukrainian woman surveilled the pair for months before carrying out the attack and fleeing with her daughter to Estonia. Ukraine has denied any involvement. [Washington Post / Mary Ilyushina, Annabelle Timsit, and Robyn Dixon] 
• Ukraine suggested the attack was an escalation of ongoing disputes between Russian elites. Meanwhile, members of a previously unknown, self-proclaimed anti-Putin group tried to claim responsibility Monday. [Reuters]

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said he will step down in December. [New York Times / Sheryl Gay Stolberg]

• Three Arkansas police officers are under investigation after a video recorded Sunday showed at least two of them hitting a suspect during an arrest. [CNN / Eliott C. McLaughlin, Andy Rose, and Hannah Sarisohn]
• A South Dakota ethics board could take action against Republican Gov. Kristi Noem for her involvement in her daughter’s application for a real estate appraiser’s license. [Associated Press / Stephen Groves]
• A partial hand recount confirmed Monday Kansas voters’ support for abortion rights. [New York Times / Maggie Astor]

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”It’s like a wading pool. This summer has been monstrous. It has just been a mean summer. And now this.”

[Rawlins Gilliland, retired poet and writer, on the floods / Dallas Morning News]

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