- How a Record Cash Haul Vanished for Senate Republicans (nytimes.com)
- Beto O’Rourke broke a Texas fund-raising record with a $27.6 million haul, his campaign said. (nytimes.com)
- NYC couple, including Wall Street ‘rapper,’ busted in record setting $3.6B Bitcoin scam
- Czech Republic to ban unvaccinated from public events; high cases in Austria, Germany and Hungary (theguardian.com)
- Britain sees hottest day on record — with mercury set to rise further (washingtonpost.com)Biden could declare climate emergency as soon as this week, sources say (washingtonpost.com)Death toll mounts in Europe as wildfires and heatwaves inflict havoc (theguardian.com)Ferocious European heat heads north (bbc.com)‘It goes up like tinder’: unprecedented blazes envelop Alaska (theguardian.com)
- China tightens controls as Shanghai reports record Covid cases (theguardian.com)
- Price fixing? Oil companies’ profits soared to $174bn this year as US gas prices rose (theguardian.com)










