—From Pilot Knob, NY.

Heavy Weather: At least three people are dead and others are missing after torrential rains caused flash flooding in Texas and Oklahoma. Up to 10 inches of rain fell in some areas over a 24-hour period.

Eight people, including two children, are reported missing along the Blanco River southeast of Austin. A couple hundred homes may have been destroyed.

Permawar: Defense Secretary Ash Carter bluntly criticized the Iraqi army yesterday on CNN, saying they “vastly outnumbered” their Islamic State opponents in Ramadi and “just showed no will to fight.” A prominent Iraqi politician said it’s not true and that Iraqi troops “lack good equipment, weapons and aerial support.” The US spent years training and equipping the Iraqi army; much of the gear has been lost retreating before ISIS.

American Tragedy: Police have identified the body of a man found in the Hudson River near West Point as Vincent Viafore, who they believe was murdered April 19^th by his fiancée during a kayak excursion. The unusual nature of his death, or murder as the case may be, has generated intense interest in the New York press.

Prosecutors claim that Angelika Graswald tampered with Viafore’s kayak, causing his death the 46-degree water of the Hudson. He was not wearing a life jacket.

Investigators at first thought the death was an accident in which Viafore flipped and drowned. After zeroing in on inconsistencies in Graswald’s story, they say she admitted tampering with his boat and told them it “felt good knowing he was going to die.”

DC: A bomb squad last night detonated a pressure cooker left in the back of a station wagon parked near the US Capitol. Whether it was actually a bomb is uncertain. The driver has been arrested.

World: Mexican journalists suspect that a reported shootout between police and a drug gang last Friday in the western state of Michoacán was really a massacre. Reporters are suspicious that while 42 purported members of a drug gang were killed, none were just wounded. One reporter tweeted, “12 years covering wars. Never an army as accurate as the Mexican. Only kill shots, never any wounded.”

The Obit Page: Anne Meara, who was half the famous comedy team Stiller & Meara, and the mother of actor Ben Stiller, has died at age 85. She was the professional partner of comedian Jerry Stiller, and his wife for 61 years. They fed their act with jokes about their ethnic differences. She was Irish and he was Jewish.

Among the earliest graduates of Chicago’s Second City comedy troupe, Stiller and Meara were popular in the 1960s and and 70s during the prime of the television variety show, including the Ed Sullivan Show. Both went on to have long careers as comedy actors.

Plastered: Street artist Robbie Conal has pasted New York with a poster skewering ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos. Featuring caricatures of Stephanopoulos and Hillary Clinton, the poster says “PayPal” at the top and “Donate” at the bottom.

George, of course, has been embarrassed by the revelation that he gave $75,000 to the Clinton Foundation, founded by his former employers at the White House. George now joins the Robbie Conal rogue’s gallery of street art that includes Oliver North (“Speak”), Ronald Reagan (“Contra Diction”), and Mitch McConnell (“Fossil Fool”).

One of the posters was placed on a light pole outside ABC News headquarters right next to the sign for “Peter Jennings Way,” named for ABC’s late pillar of journalistic virtue.