 Ukrainian officials say Russian attacks on civilians have increased in recent days, with authorities hoping to find more survivors of a missile attack on a five-story building in Chasiv Yar, in the eastern Donetsk region. The death toll in the Saturday strike rose to 30 people, with nine survivors so far having been pulled from the rubble. Officials said that missile attacks in Kharkiv started early Monday morning, with missiles targeting a school and a residential building. Kharkiv regional governor Oleh Synyehubov said three people had been killed in the attacks and 31 more had been hospitalized. More: - Russia has placed its forces in the Luhansk region on "operational pause," as Moscow needs its units to rest and refortify before renewing an assault on Donetsk.
- Moscow apparently plans to continue striking cities away from its positions in eastern Ukraine, with British intelligence saying that civilian casualties are likely to increase due to Russia's shortage of more precise long-range firing technology.
- Ukraine continued to accuse Russia of using cluster munitions, which are banned by many countries because of the indiscriminate destruction they cause.
- Also on Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree allowing all Ukrainians to apply for Russian passports. The measure would also fast-track the ability of Ukraine residents to obtain Russian citizenship.
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 The FDA has received its first application for an over-the-counter birth control pill. HRA Pharma's pill is already available by prescription, though the company hopes to show that women can screen themselves for conditions that might lead to rare blood clots, and that the pill is safe to distribute over the counter. HRA Pharma says its application is unrelated to the Supreme Court's recent overturning of Roe v. Wade; in his concurring opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas suggested that the 1965 ruling in Griswold v. Connecticut, which affirmed a right to privacy to use contraception, should also be reconsidered. More: - HRA Pharma's chief strategic and innovations officer Frédérique Welgryn said that "birth control is not a solution for abortion access" and the timing of the application was "a really sad coincidence."
- Cadence Health is also planning to apply to the FDA to sell its own birth control pill over the counter.
- House Democrats have asked the FDA to move swiftly on the applications, and are seeking to require health insurance companies to cover the cost of all birth control pills, not just those acquired through a prescription.
- Typically, it takes about 10 months for the FDA to come to a decision about over-the-counter products.
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 Steve Bannon, an adviser to former President Donald Trump during his 2016 campaign and early in his presidency, has agreed to testify to the Jan. 6 House committee after months of refusals. The turnabout comes a week before Bannon was set to face criminal contempt charges for his refusal to cooperate with a Congressional subpoena. Bannon had previously said that he was respecting Trump's claim of executive privilege over their discussions about the 2020 election, but that Trump had since waived that privilege. More: - The Jan. 6 committee argued that executive privilege did not give Bannon the right to refuse to sit for testimony.
- An attorney for Trump, Justin Clark, reportedly told the FBI two weeks ago that such an executive privilege claim had never been made.
- Bannon will likely testify in a private deposition first before any of his comments are revealed in a public hearing.
- Tuesday's public hearing is expected to focus on the role of extremist groups in organizing the mob at the Capitol.
- One member of the far-right Oath Keepers told investigators that group leader Stewart Rhodes had a phone call with an unnamed person close to Trump, where he encouraged that person to tell Trump to call upon militia groups like his to fight to overturn the 2020 election.
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 GOOD NEWS: Twenty-eight percent of the electricity generated in the U.S. in April came from renewable sources, a new record, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Experts attributed the milestone to an increase in wind and solar installations; it helps that those projects are getting more economically feasible to build and maintain. It's cheaper to generate electricity from renewables as well: it costs between $26-$50 to produce a megawatt-hour of electricity from a new wind turbine, and $45-$74 from the most cost-effective natural gas plant. More: - April also got a boost from being a particularly windy month around the U.S.
- Energy analyst Peter Kelly-Detwiler said he hopes the 28% record will lead to more milestones in the next few years.
- According to the EIA, 20.1% of the electricity produced in the U.S. in 2021 came from renewables.
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 Firefighters are taking preventative measures to protect Yosemite National Park's Mariposa Grove, which contains 500 mature sequoias, from the raging Washburn fire. The wildfire has scorched more than 2,340 acres thus far, and is coming dangerously close to the area that contains historic sequoias, including the 209-foot-tall Grizzly Giant. Firefighters have installed a sprinkler system around the Grizzly Giant to keep it cool and raise the humidity directly around the tree should the wildfire reach the grove. More: - The Washburn fire broke out on Thursday and spread rapidly over the weekend due to an abundance of dried vegetation. It remains 0% contained, as of this writing.
- The fire is threatening the town of Wawona, about 20 miles south of Yosemite Valley. Roads are closed in the area and a mandatory evacuation order is in effect.
- About 10% of the world's sequoia trees were destroyed in 2020 in the Castle fire in Sequoia National Park. Another 3-5% of the world's sequoia trees, ~3,600 in total, were destroyed in wildfires last year in the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.
- The U.S. Forest Service says preserving trees in the Mariposa Grove is a high priority.
- Experts say the Grizzly Giant is around 3,000 years old.
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 "Thor: Love and Thunder" brought in $143M at the U.S. domestic box office this weekend and another $159M in international markets, in the latest hit for Marvel. The $302M global haul is the third most of any weekend during the pandemic, though the Thor sequel came in behind the recently-released "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness." The title bested the previous entry in the franchise, "Thor: Ragnarok," which earned $123M domestically on its opening weekend in 2017. More: - The "Thor: Love and Thunder" opening weekend placed it as the ninth highest-grossing film so far in 2022. The top three films are "Top Gun: Maverick" ($597M), "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness" ($411M), and "The Batman" ($369M).
- "Minions: The Rise of Gru" took second place this weekend with $45M domestically, bringing its two-week total to $210M.
- The new "Thor" entry could hang onto the top spot at the box office next weekend. The only major releases on July 15 are "Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank," an animated children's film based loosely on "Blazing Saddles," and "Where The Crawdads Sing," a mystery drama based on the novel by Delia Owens.
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- Monty Norman, the film composer responsible for the iconic theme of James Bond movies, died at the age of 94.
- Two-thirds of U.S.-born PhD graduates in economics have a parent with a graduate degree. Fifty years ago, that number was only about 20%, suggesting increasing difficulty for first-generation graduate students.
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 |  | Jonathan Harris is a writer and editor who lives in Los Angeles. |  | | Editor | Eduardo Garcia is a writer and editor based in New York. He is the author of "Things You Can Do," an illustrated book about climate action. Bylines in The New York Times, The Guardian, Slate, Scientific American, and others. In one of his previous lives, Eduardo worked as a Reuters correspondent in Latin America for nearly a decade. | |
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