A large fire near the French city of Bordeaux forces 10,000 residents to flee. / BBC News It's unclear if the fossil fuel industry will use Joe Manchin's provisions on the senator's terms. / Grist Ahead of last weekend's big vote, Senate Democrats
Biden signs a bill to invest more than $200 billion in American semiconductors in an effort to loosen dependence on overseas manufacturing. / CNN See also: Western chipsets have continued flowing to Russia, even after the invasion. And that same technology is turning up in weapons used to strike Ukraine. / Reuters
The FBI searches Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence, part of an investigation into the handling of presidential documents. / Politico Maggie Haberman's forthcoming book reports that White House staff periodically found wads of paper clogging a toilet—and there are photos. / Axios Tucker Carlson is said
The $740 billion Inflation Reduction Act—nearly $375 billion of which is dedicated to fighting climate change—passed in the Senate along party lines. / Associated Press How does the Inflation Reduction Act ease the inflation we're feeling right now? It doesn't, but it will curtail persistent
Yesterday, Indiana became the first state to pass a near-total abortion ban since Roe was overturned. / CNN Predicting how other states would vote if they had a Kansas-style abortion referendum. / The New York Times Ineffectual government guidance and Covid vaccine disinformation led to countless stillbirths that didn'
Russia indicates it's ready to talk about a prisoner swap, a day after it convicts Brittney Griner of drug smuggling. / CNN What we know on day 163 of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. / The Guardian Europe's Baltic ferries may not seem like the most pressing
The Senate voted almost unanimously for the US to approve Finland and Sweden's entry into NATO. / Politico Biden signs an executive order that would use Medicaid to protect interstate travel for abortion access. / Associated Press "If any feminist progress is going to prompt outrage and resistance from
Speaker of the House Pelosi leaves behind a "full-on lovefest" after her visit to Taiwan. Details on six ways China may respond. / BBC News, Bloomberg Companies are moving operations out of China in the interest of "friendshoring"—looking for places where they won't
In the first Jan. 6 case to go to trial, a Texas man who brought a gun and zip ties to the Capitol has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison. / NBC News See also: A right-wing influencer cooperated with the FBI's Jan. 6 investigation,
The world's nuclear stockpile is set to expand again, "and in many cases is being modernized." / The Economist Inflation continues while the US economy slows, but workers still see their wages rise. / Quartz Millennials gained $4.8 trillion of wealth in the past two years. Generation
