- Torrential rains have caused flash flooding on the Guadalupe River in Texas. At least 69 people have been killed, many of them campers from a Christian summer camp; many others remain missing.
- Foreign investors are increasingly leery of the US. A survey of fund managers worldwide by the Bank of America has found that only 23% of them preferred American stocks over those of other countries, a sharp reversal from the last 20 years. And while the S&P 500 is up over 6% compared to last year, Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index and Germany's DAX are up more than 20%. Of course, abandoning the US dollar as a reserve currency isn't something that can be done on a whim, or without significant disruption in its own right, but the dollar's status is more uncertain than ever.
- The director of one of Gaza's largest hospitals was killed along with much of his family by an Israeli airstrike on his apartment. His surviving children believe that he was targeted; they say his unit was the only one hit in the airstrike. If true, this would of course be yet another war crime; I guess you can file that along with the countless other war crimes Israel has been accused of in the last few years. All hospital directors in northern Gaza are now either dead or detained. Meanwhile there are also allegations that some of the food aid being distributed in Gaza is laced with the opioid oxycodone.
- The Brokenhead Ojibway Nation has obtained land to build an urban reserve in the RM of East St. Paul, just outside of Winnipeg.
- Tataskweyak Cree Nation in northern Manitoba was hit by a wildfire that has destroyed at least 7 homes; meanwhile the town of Lynn Lake has been evacuated for the second time this summer and residents of Leaf Rapids have been warned to prepare for the same.
- Bob Vylan are facing a rash of cancellations of their booked events in response to on-stage remarks at the Glastonbury festival. The Radar Festival in Manchester has dropped them from their lineup. A representative of the festival says that they did not want to cancel them but were "forced", with suggestions that the venue being partially owned by AMG and Live Nation was a factor. In response, other artists, including GENN and The Scratch, are cancelling their appearances at the Manchester festival in solidarity.
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