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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Extreme heat has begun to hit the US, delivered by a high-pressure weather pattern that the federal weather prediction center says will be “potentially the longest experienced in decades for some locations.” According to meteorologists with WeatherBELL Analytics, about 265 million people in the US are forecast to see air temperatures reach or exceed 90 degrees Fahrenheit, with many of them experiencing heat indices of about 105 F by next Sunday. The system, an upper-level ridge of high pressure, is expected to bring record-breaking temperatures in the 90s and beyond.

When people talk about the most consequential elections of their lifetimes, you don’t hear many of them mention Bill Clinton’s race against Ross Perot and President George H. W. Bush in 1992. In When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s, out today, the writer John Ganz finds the early shoots of the Trump era amid the right-wing reshuffling during the first Bush administration.

This story was originally published on Judd Legum’s Substack, Popular Information, to which you can subscribe here. This month, Sinclair Broadcast Group has flooded a vast network of local news websites with misleading articles suggesting that President Biden is mentally unfit for office. The articles are based on specious social media posts by the Republican National Committee (RNC), which are then repackaged to resemble news reports.

Many girls are growing up without proper domesticity training.

Pennsylvania state Rep. Ryan Mackenzie (R), who is currently running for U. S. Congress as a “proven conservative”, lied about his age on a dating profile by shaving off nearly a decade, the Daily Mail reports.

Black Chicagoans could see reparations in their near future, after the city’s mayor signed an executive order Monday aimed at creating a task force that will look into the massive endeavor. The Black Reparations Co-Governance Task Force “will conduct a comprehensive study and examination of all policies that have harmed Black Chicagoans from the slavery era to present day,” and will then draft recommendations for reparations, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s office said in a press release.