- ‘Fat Leonard’ Francis, contractor in US navy’s worst corruption scandal, flees house arrest (theguardian.com)
- GOP Insiders Reportedly Sounding ‘Code Red’ Over JD Vance Blowing Ohio Senate Race: ‘Worst Campaign’ You Could Possibly Run (mediaite.com)
- After China’s Worst Air Crash in Years, a Desperate Hunt for Survivors (nytimes.com)
- ‘It’s too hot’: Los Angeles melts under its worst heatwave of the year (theguardian.com)
- Top NY Doctor: New COVID Wave Is Starting, With the ‘Worst Version’ of Omicron (nbcnewyork.com)
- More than 103,000 Americans hospitalized with covid, matching worst of summer surge (washingtonpost.com)US reports global record of more than 1m daily Covid cases (theguardian.com)Starbucks will require U.S. employees to either be vaccinated or undergo weekly COVID tests (nydailynews.com)Second Chinese city forced into Covid lockdown (bbc.com)
