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1. President Biden’s climate agenda is at a standstill With the city The state plays an important role in the fight against climate change.
The patchwork approach is not a substitute for a coordinated national strategy. However, following a Supreme Court ruling limiting the EPA’s authority to limit power plant emissions, experts said local action was needed to give the United States an opportunity to meet its climate goals. Historically a coal state, Colorado has passed more than 50 climate-related laws since 2019. Voters in Athens, Ohio also charged themselves carbon charges.
Meanwhile, the Biden administration is urgently trying to convince other countries to move away from fossil fuels, despite a marked lack of domestic success. Biden’s climate envoy, John Kerry, said, “I’m going around the world saying everything right, but I can’t get it to the United States,” said an international climate activist. “When he comes and preaches to everyone else, he loses trust.”
2. After the collapse of Roev. Wade, The state is thinking about what will happen next.
The New York State Legislature, if fully enacted, passed a bill enshrining the rights of abortion and contraception in the State Constitution, putting New York at the forefront of legal efforts to protect reproductive rights. Voter approval by referendum is required before the bill comes into force.
In Texas, where conservative leaders have spent decades narrowing access to abortion, even supporters of abortion opposition are terrible at the potential for a surge in childbirth of poor women. Say you’re not ready. Texas is already one of the most dangerous states to have a baby in the United States, with more uninsured women of childbearing age than any other state.
In the anti-abortion movement, there are disagreements about further restrictions. Some of the most extreme activists want to pursue an “abortion abolition” that criminalizes abortion from pregnancy as a murder and blames pregnant women. More mainstream members of the movement oppose prosecuting pregnant women and instead want to focus on penalizing abortion donors.
3. The Supreme Court was more conservative this term than it was in the first century.
The court abolished the constitutional right to abortion, expanded the right to carry guns outside American homes, and dealt with climate change at the first maturity, when six judges conservatively dominated. Made difficult and expanded the role of religion in public life.
Those blockbusters highlighted a relentless shift to the court’s political rights in the term ending this week. According to one standard measurement, the ruling was more conservative than any year since 1931. Approximately 74% of cases were determined by conservative judgments.
Previously under Judge John Roberts, the last days of his term tended to end with a combination of decisions pointing in the direction of different ideologies. But the difference over the past year has been the addition of a third judge, Amy Coney Barrett, appointed by Donald Trump.
4. Donald Trump and his allies Offering to pay the statutory costs of more than 12 witnesses summoned by the Commission on January 6, it raises questions about whether Trump is influencing their testimony.
The arrangement elicited new scrutiny after testimony from former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who agreed to publicly testify only after dismissing a lawyer paid by Trump’s political organization.
Hutchinson’s testimony reveals little-recognized truth about how Washington works. The capital is primarily led by geriatric medical institutions, but much of the work is done by recent college graduates. The proximity of young staff to power not only gives them a disproportionate impact, but also gives them a front row seat to important moments when they can define a country.
Dozens more were injured after the attack on a nine-story residential tower and recreation center earlier on Friday. A Kremlin spokesman denied that Russia was targeting private infrastructure.
again, Brittney Griner, an American WNBA star, has been tried on suspicion of drugs in Russia. Legal experts said her trial, which was postponed next Thursday, is almost certain to end with a conviction that could result in up to 10 years in prison. Grinner, detained a few days before Russia invaded Ukraine, is the latest American involved in “hostage diplomacy.”
6. Xi Jinping’s first visit to Hong Kong since a thorough crackdown It was a declaration of victory over opposition in Hong Kong, a claim of his power to domestic viewers, and a warning to foreign critics.
At this event, police unveiled new armored vehicles to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the end of the British Raj in Hong Kong, geese on the streets of a city without protesters, where thousands gather every July 1st. I walked like this. China’s leader, Xi, has issued harsh warnings that public dissent and democratization efforts that have defined cities in recent years are a thing of the past.
The West is increasingly seeing Xi’s actions as overly aggressive. For the first time, NATO declared China a “challenge,” adding that national policy was “compulsory,” cyber operations were “malicious,” and rhetoric was “conflicting.”
7. Would you like to travel this weekend?Get ready to wait..
As the weekend of July 4 approaches, more people are expected to travel to, from, and within the United States than at any other time of the year. In many cases, increased traffic can lead to traffic and delays. (Nearly one-third of flights arrived late on Friday, before June 16th.)
It may not be so good for those who are driving. Some are rethinking their summer plans as fuel, food and accommodation prices soar. Hotel industry executives said that many people who drove on vacation chose destinations closer to their homes to save on gas.
8. Juggling a private jet in a “summer camp for millionaires” is a logistic nightmare. It’s also the job of Chris Pomeroy.
Every year, at the annual Sun Valley Conference hosted by a secret investment bank, numerous private jets fly to a small resort town in Idaho. Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots, will fly on the Gulfstream G650. So are PayPal CEOs Jeff Bezos and Dan Schulman.
Pomeroy is tasked with a Tetris high stakes 3D game with millions of dollars of private jets. The lack of proper organization that occurred in the first year of 2016 can cause delays and detours while pilots burn valuable fuel, as everyone arrives at about the same time.
9. Ants can be the best friends of paleontologists.
In recent excavations, scientists have discovered evidence of ten previously unknown species of ancient mammals, including kangaroo rat ancestors. They got the help of thousands of small harvest ants.
Ants live in underground burrows beneath piles of soil and are fortified with rocks and other tough materials, such as fossilized mammalian teeth that paleontologists can harvest.
“They aren’t fantastic when they bite you,” said Samantha Hopkins, a researcher at the University of Oregon. “But they make my job much easier, so I have to thank them.”
10. And finally, Indian “Mango Man” finds power in trees.
Kaleemullah Khan, 82, has been caring for and experimenting with mango trees in fields in northern India. He grafted hundreds of mangoes to his mother tree and has been highly acclaimed at home and abroad for his efforts.
Kahn is philosophical about fruit, but he is also obsessed with it — experts nearing the end of the life of discovery have resigned to what remains out of his reach. He conveys his belief in the infinite possibilities of mango to everyone, including the ability to cure illness.
Kahn now spends most of his time around trees. About two months ago, he moved from the house where his wife, son, and grandson lived to another house on the edge of the nursery, with a balcony overlooking the work of his life.
Have a juicy night.
Brent Lewis A photo edited for this briefing.
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