GOP Rep. Peter Meijer Rules Out Write-In Bid If He Loses Primary
Meijer, a Trump critic, is locked in a tense primary against former Trump administration official John Gibbs.
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Justice Department Probe Homes In On Trump’s Efforts To Stay In Power, Overturn Vote: Report
The report reflects the growing scope of the agency’s inquiry into the events surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
The Pop Star We Need Right Now
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.Are you ready to “release the wiggle”? Beyoncé’s new album will soon test America’s appetite for dancing—and her ability to adapt to the times.But first, here are three new stories from The Atlantic.
The Supreme Court is making America ungovernable.
The key abortion news that happened while you weren’t looking
Vice President Kamala Harris plans to turn up pressure against “Republican extremism,” Hulu angered Democrats and state judges made opposite rulings on enforcing bans.
The Work of Giants Crumbles
Barely a month ago, Northern Ireland’s former first minister David Trimble and his old partner in peace, the Republic of Ireland’s Bertie Ahern, were sitting together in Belfast reminiscing about what they had built. With John Hume’s death in 2020, Trimble and Ahern were among the last of the island’s old giants. And now Trimble has gone too.
What Putin’s Treatment of Jews Reveals About Russia
Last week came news that Russian President Vladimir Putin was threatening to shut down the offices of the Jewish Agency for Israel in Russia. For those unfamiliar with it, the agency is a nonprofit that for nearly a century has been tasked with figuring out the nuts and bolts of Zionism—that is, how to get Jews to a Jewish state. It was banned from the Soviet Union, but began operating in the region in the late 1980s and helped about a million Jews get to Israel through the 1990s.
Puerto Rico: House Dems Criticized over Handling of Bill to Let Residents Choose Status of Territory
Lawmakers in the House of Representatives have introduced the Puerto Rico Status Act, which would allow residents of the longtime U.S. colony to begin the process of self-determination and decide on the island’s territorial status. The bill sets up three options for residents to choose from in a referendum — U.S. statehood, independence or sovereignty in free association with the United States — and commits Congress to abide by the results.
Burma Executes Four Activists as Resistance to Military Government Grows Since 2021 Coup
Human rights activists are sounding the alarm in Burma, where the military junta has executed four men imprisoned for their pro-democracy activism and opposing last year’s coup. It is the first series of reported executions in Burma in three decades.
4,000+ Children Died: Pope Apologizes to Indigenous Groups in Canada over Residential School Abuse
Pope Francis is on a historic trip to Canada this week to apologize for the mistreatment suffered by thousands of Indigenous children in residential schools run by the Catholic Church. Many survivors say the apology comes over half a century too late and the church should take further actions to prevent the psychological, physical and sexual abuse from recurring in Catholic-run institutions.
The Dirtbag Is Back
This summer, the “dirtbags” have taken over screens. You know them when you see them. A paragon of the form is Eddie Munson from Stranger Things: Repeating his senior year of high school, Eddie sells weed, leads the Dungeons and Dragons club, and strikes most of the townsfolk as a plausible Satanist. He is alternately goofy and intimidating, with a love of heavy metal and a mullet one imagines smells of stale beer.
Obamacare back in court as Texans challenge coverage for STDs and HIV care
The GOP’s decade-plus war against the health law continues with lawsuit over coverage requirement for testing, vaccines and PrEP.
WHO declares monkeypox an international health emergency
There are over 16,800 cases reported globally, with nearly 2,900 in the U.S.
Biden administration considering a public health emergency for monkeypox as cases swell
“We’re looking at … what are the ways the response could be enhanced, if any, by declaring a public health emergency,” said White House Covid response coordinator Ashish Jha.
Four questions about Biden’s Covid-19 diagnosis
Experts say the president’s case is likely to stay mild.
There’s one hopeful sign for the Fed on inflation. Really.
Slower wage growth could help bring down prices and ultimately mean less sting for the average worker.
U.S. inflation reached a new 40-year high in June of 9.1 percent
Lower-income and Black and Hispanic Americans have been hit especially hard.
No recession here: Hot jobs market tames fears of slump
Biden officials have repeatedly touted the jobs numbers as evidence of the economy’s underlying strength, but slowing the labor market is essential to helping tame consumer prices.
Failure ‘not an option’: Fed vows all-out fight on inflation
Fears have mounted that the central bank might trigger a recession sometime in the next year with its aggressive rate action.
Top Pence Aide Testifies To Grand Jury, A Key Uptick In Justice Department’s Probe
Marc Short spoke to a grand jury convened by the DOJ to investigate the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp Is Testifying In Probe Of Trump’s Bid To Overturn Election
Kemp was slated to provide a “sworn recorded statement” in D.A. Fani Willis’ probe into Trump’s efforts to upend the Georgia vote to make him a winner.
Pence’s Ex-Chief Of Staff Torches Matt Gaetz: ‘Likely He’ll Be In Prison’ By 2024
“I’m actually surprised that Florida law enforcement still allows him to speak to teenage conferences like that,” Marc Short said of the GOP congressman.
Trump ‘Returning To Scene Of Crime’ With D.C. ‘Coup Policy’ Speech, CNN’s Jim Acosta Says
Trump is coming to Washington this week at the invitation of the far-right America First Policy Institute to present a kind of “State of the Union” speech.
GOP Lawmaker Attends Gay Son’s Wedding Days After Opposing Same-Sex Marriage Bill
Rep. Glenn Thompson’s son was married three days after the Pennsylvania Republican voted against a bill to protect same-sex marriage.
News Roundup: Trump’s Jan. 6 speech edits released; grand jury hears coup evidence
The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 coup attempt has released yet more evidence of Trump’s intent on that day, this time with Trump’s own edits to the statement he begrudgingly released after the violence. There’s also apparent movement in the Department of Justice’s Jan. 6 probe; Mike Pence’s chief of staff appeared last week to answer questions before a federal grand jury.
Melania claims she was unaware of raging Jan. 6 coup because she was photographing a rug
If there’s any advantage to being married to Donald Trump, it would have to be developing the ability to at least occasionally tune him out. It’s quite a skill because, even at his most genteel, Trump sounds like a herd of shaved emus drowning in a tub of Lestoil.
Gun manufacturers livid after California governor signs ‘bounty’ bill curbing illegal firearms’ sale
In almost any mass shooting involving an assault-style weapon in this country, there are varying levels of moral culpability. The first and most obvious is the culpability of the shooter himself (they are almost always men), who consciously chooses to make use of that weapon for its intended purpose by killing one, two, or sometimes scores of human beings.
‘Go back to your country’: Immigrants allege physical and racist abuse at Florida detention facility
The federal government has been slapped with another civil rights complaint alleging abuses against immigrants in U.S. custody, this time at a facility in Florida. More than a dozen people either currently or formerly detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the Baker County Detention Center (Baker) say in the complaint that they were subject to “frequent” physical and verbal abuse, including arbitrary punishment and racist harassment.
2020 Colonial Pipeline spill revealed to be largest gasoline spill in U.S. history
New estimates of the damage caused by a crack 5 feet long in a section of Colonial Pipeline Co.’s 5,500-mile pipeline shows its 2020 spill was the worst in U.S. history, sending nearly 2 million gallons of gas into the Oehlet Nature Preserve near Hunterville, North Carolina. It took 18 days before teenagers discovered the rupture on Aug. 14, 2020, and to this day, Colonial Pipeline still hasn’t completely cleaned up its mess.
The U.S. Has No Plan to Prevent the Next Pandemic
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.Our institutions are poised to repeat the mistakes of COVID-19.But first, here are three new stories from The Atlantic.
The gun industry created a new consumer. Now it’s killing us.
Could genetics be the key to never getting the coronavirus?
Mike Pence is trying to send a message.
Indiana statehouse swarmed by protesters as lawmakers debate new abortion ban
Indiana is the first state legislature to take up a sweeping new ban since Roe v. Wade was overturned.