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Today’s edition of quick hits.
* Beryl’s aftermath: “‘Dangerous heat’ is set to impact southeast Texas on Tuesday after Beryl has left over 2 million utility customers in the region without power, according to the National Weather Service. A large chunk of the Texas coast, where Beryl made landfall Monday morning as a Category 1 hurricane, was under heat advisories Tuesday. ... High temperatures coupled with no access to air conditioning could cause heat-related illnesses for some, the weather service field office in Houston said.”
* A brutal Russian strike in Ukraine: “A children’s hospital in Kyiv has been hit after Russia launched a wave of missile strikes against cities across Ukraine. Two people died when the Ohmatdyt Children’s Hospital — Ukraine’s biggest pediatrics facility — sustained major damage during the blast. Thirty-six people were killed and 140 people were injured in the strikes, President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff Andriy Yermak said on Monday.”
* A rate cut sure would be nice: “Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Tuesday expressed concern that holding interest rates too high for too long could jeopardize economic growth.”
* Too much of the coverage of this pseudo-controversy was irresponsible: “President Joe Biden has not seen a neurologist outside his annual physicals, White House physician Kevin O’Connor said in a letter released Monday night addressing visits to the White House by a Parkinson’s disease expert.”
* If you’re wondering whether U.S. District Judge Joshua Kindred was a Trump appointee, he was: “A federal judge in Alaska resigned Monday after an investigation found that he had an inappropriate relationship with a law clerk and then lied about it, in addition to creating a hostile work environment that included graphic sexual remarks to colleagues.”
* Hmm: “A U.S. Navy sailor tried to access President Joe Biden’s health records “out of curiosity” but failed, the Navy said on Tuesday, adding that Biden’s medical records were not compromised at any time. ... A U.S. defense official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the sailor tried to access the records three times within the span of a few hours.”
* Best wishes for a speedy recovery: “Congressman and longtime California politician John Garamendi said Monday that he has been diagnosed with a rare form of blood cancer called multiple myeloma. In a statement and a video posted on the social media platform X on Monday afternoon, Garamendi (D-Walnut Grove), 79, said doctors found the cancer early.”
* Inhofe’s passing: “James M. Inhofe, a five-term Republican senator from Oklahoma and, until President Donald J. Trump’s arrival in 2017, arguably Washington’s most prominent denier of the established science of human-generated climate change, died on Tuesday in Tulsa, Okla. He was 89. His death, in a hospital, was announced in a statement by his family, which said the cause was a stroke.”
See you tomorrow.