July News
Editor’s Choice: Scroll below for our monthly blend of mainstream and alternative July, 2021 news and views.
July 31
Top Headlines
New York Times, Where the Delta Variant and Low Vaccination Rates Are Colliding
- Washington Post, Ban on evictions expires as renters face rising covid cases, lack of aid
- Washington Post, Analysis: Newly revealed notes drag congressional Republicans into Trump’s election-subversion effort, Philip Bump
- Washington Post, Jan. 6 panel faces choice of whether to call GOP lawmakers to testify
- Palmer Report, Opinion: Merrick Garland: how do you like me now? Bill Palmer
- New York Times, Biden Promised to Restore the Iran Nuclear Deal. Now It Risks Derailment
Virus Victims, Responses
- New York Times, Vaccinated People With Rare Breakthrough Cases Can Spread Virus, C.D.C. Reports
- New York Times, New Rule Raises Question: Who’ll Pay for All the Covid Tests?
Washington Post, Disney, Walmart mandate workers to be vaccinated as cases spike nationwide
- Washington Post, Vaccine holdouts relent as delta variant takes hold
- Washington Post, ‘We can’t take another blow’: Some restaurants may not survive renewed mask mandates
Washington Post, 190.5 million U.S. vaccinated
- Worldometer, World & U.S. Coronavirus Case Totals, U.S. Deaths: 629,065
- Washington Post, French police clash with anti-vaccine protesters amid tensions over ‘health pass’ plans,
2020 Tokyo Olympics
- New York Times, Olympic Soccer Live Updates: U.S. Women’s Team Beats Netherlands in Shootout‘
- Washington Post, The Tokyo Games went on. But American viewers aren’t coming along
Washington Post, The Tokyo Olympics schedule, day by day
U.S. Politics, Governance
- Palmer Report, Opinion: Tucker Carlson over the edge
- New York Times, Carl Levin, the Senate Scourge of Corporate America, Dies at 87
Jan. 6 Pro-Trump Insurrection
World News, Corruption, Human Rights
New York Times, Hong Kong Protester Is Sentenced to 9 Years in First Security Law Case
- Washington Post, Beijing police detain Chinese Canadian pop star Kris Wu on rape allegations
U.S. Law, Prisons, Crime
- New York Times, He Hired 2 Men to Kidnap His Wife. They Ended Up Drowning
DailyMail, Florida man, 76, is jailed for performing botched CASTRATION on a man he met on eunuch fetish website — after officers found victim’s testicles in a jar on a bedside table
Top Stories
New York Times, Where the Delta Variant and Low Vaccination Rates Are Colliding, Lauren Leatherby, July 31, 2021.… Read the rest