London — People across the United Kingdom have been warned to brace for what could be Britain’s hottest day ever recorded, with temperatures expected to soar over the 100-degree mark. People in London and a vast swath of England were already baking in temperatures well into the mid-90s before lunchtime on Monday.
Forecasters warned that some areas could touch 40 degrees Celsius on Monday or Tuesday — a landmark which, at 104 Fahrenheit, is about 30 degrees over typical summer temperatures in the U.K.
As CBS News correspondent Roxana Saberi reports, the same heat wave is already blamed for the extreme temperatures fueling widespread wildfires across other parts of Europe.
In Spain, where a new national high-temperature record was set just several days ago at 117 degrees, the scenes are similarly apocalyptic with fires tearing across the south. Authorities said that more than 1,000 deaths were already blamed on the current heat wave.
Neighboring Portugal remained on high alert Monday after fires charred land parched by a drought that has hit at least 96% of the country.
Back in the north, the expected scorching temperatures prompted Britain’s National Weather Service to issue its first-ever “red warning” for extreme heat, indicating a “risk to life.”
Scientists say heat waves have become more frequent, more intense, and longer lasting.
“Climate change has everything to do with the extreme weather that we’re seeing at the moment, and it’s human-induced climate change, it’s not a natural variation,” Kirsty McCabe, a meteorologist at the U.K.’s Royal Meteorological Society, told CBS News.
Asked if weather like this was likely to become the norm for Britain and its neighbors, she left little room for doubt.
“Unfortunately, yes. That’s exactly where we are heading at the moment,” McCabe said, “if we don’t do some drastic action, we will continue to see these things happening.”
Eddie, a four year old golden retriever, rides on a District Line train on London’s Underground train network, during a heat wave, July 18, 2022.
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The U.K. is more accustomed to rain and clouds than extreme heat. Most homes don’t have air conditioning, and many schools don’t either, prompting some to cancel classes early this week.
Briton’s have also been warned not to use the trains unless absolutely necessary. The heat could buckle the tracks, so many scheduled trips have been canceled or delayed in a bid to avoid last-minute cancelations and chaos at sweltering stations across the country.
A love story for the history books. Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky were engaged and married after less than a year of dating — but their flame has never fizzled out.
The pair tied the knot in December 2010, two months after making their red carpet debut at an event hosted by LACMA in Los Angeles. Looking back on his whirlwind romance with the Spanish starlet, Hemsworth admitted that getting married quickly “just felt right.”
“There was no great plan to any of it, to be honest,” the Home and Away actor told Good Morning Britain in 2016. “We were on holiday and we said, ‘Why don’t we get married too?’ … There probably should have been some planning but it all worked out. Honestly, we had both our families on holiday at the same time, just randomly, and we said this is a good opportunity with everyone together so we just did it.”
The Hollywood heartthrob and the Fast Five actress kept their family growing even further, welcoming daughter India in May 2012 and twin boys, Tristan and Sasha, in March 2014. Years after becoming a family of five, Pataky admitted that she was ready to take on the motherhood journey as soon as she met Hemsworth.
“When I met Chris, he was just starting out,” she told the Daily Telegraph’s Stellar magazine in November 2018. “I had started young and I had worked a lot. I was happy to take a break and just be a mum. … We met in a great place for both of us. I was totally confident within myself.”
Despite his burgeoning stardom, the Avengers star felt like there was something missing in his life. In June 2019, he announced that he would be taking a break from acting to spend more time with his wife and kids.
“I just want to be at home now with my kids,” he told the Daily Telegraph at the time. “They are at a very important age. They are still young and they are aware when I leave more than before.”
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Several agencies were vying for Wale, who brings clients to Denton Brierley including Lou Llobell (Foundation), Lyna Dubarry (Liaison), Luke Roskell (Outlander) and Hattie Gotobed (Game of Thrones).
She joins from Vivienne Clore Artist Management and previously worked at boutique agency Galloways.
Launched six years ago by Creative Artists Management alums Gavin Denton-Jones and Suzy Brierley, London-based Denton Brierley has slipped somewhat under the radar in the UK agency game but represents major established and up-and-coming talent including Ted Lasso Emmy-nominee Sarah Niles, The White Lotus’ Leo Woodall, who is starring in Netflix’s One Day adaptation, and Killing Eve’s Robert Gilbert. Other clients include. Sophia Brown (The Witcher: Blood Origins), Jefferson Hall (House of the Dragon), Maisie Richardson-Sellers (The Undeclared War), Richard Flood (Grey’s Anatomy), Ricky Whittle (American Gods), Charles Babalola (The Outlaws).
Brierley and Denton-Jones said Wale brings “a wealth of experience in nurturing new, emerging talent.
“With a commitment and dedication to her clients, her values compliment our own,” they added. “As we enter into our seventh year of business, we and our agent continue to place artist representation at the heart of our company.”
The UK agency sphere has been shaken up recently by U.S. giant UTA’s acquisition of the Curtis Brown Group.
“Stock splits do not change our fundamental outlook,” said MKM Partners’ Rohit Kulkarni in a note. Nevertheless, shares could benefit because “Alphabet might attract some extra attention from retail investors due to its lower price tag.”
Alphabet, which reports earnings next week, is facing an economic slowdown that may curb advertising spending in the next few months. Brian White, an analyst at Monness, Crespi, Hardt & Co. this month lowered his price target for the stock to $145 after the split.
Most analysts still give the shares a Buy rating, according to FactSet.
U.S. health officials expect the number of monkeypox cases to climb for at least the next few weeks as they race to increase the nation’s vaccine supply. Tanya Rivero reports on the race for vaccines in New York.
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The broadcaster says it’s being punished for sharing views and facts the British establishment want kept out of the public eye
RT has pointed out the ‘absurdity’ of UK media regulator Ofcom’s decision to find the Russian outlet guilty of violating the regulator’s broadcasting code months after revoking its license. In a statement on Monday, RT also questioned how the British authorities planned to further punish the already sanctioned company.
On July 18, Ofcom published a ruling saying that more than two dozen RT programs that went on air in the UK between February 27 and March 2 – days after the launch of the Russian military operation in Ukraine – represented “serious and repeated breaches” of the impartiality rules of its broadcasting code.
During matters of “major political controversy,” like the conflict in Ukraine, all Ofcom licensees must comply with the special impartiality requirements that call upon them to provide “due weight to a wide range of significant views,” the regulator explained.
Due to the violations of those rules by RT, Ofcom is “minded to consider them for the imposition of a statutory sanction,” it added.
In response to the ruling, RT’s press service pointed out that “the logic of these decisions mirrors the one guiding their delivery many months after Ofcom’s revocation of RT’s license: it is a trial after a conviction and RT is guilty of being Russian and daring to voice a point of view and show facts unacceptable to the British political and media establishments.”
As for the possible sanctions mulled by the British regulator, RT said that it was “very curious about how creative Ofcom will be with these potential sanctions: make RT broadcast their decision on a channel that no longer broadcasts in the UK or Europe? Fine a sanctioned company from which they are forbidden to receive money according to UK law under which they operate? Maybe, even revoke our broadcast license? Let’s get out the popcorn.”
Ofcom withdrew RT’s broadcasting license in the UK on March 18, justifying the move, among other things, by claiming that it couldn’t see the outlet providing objective coverage of the events in Ukraine due to being funded by the Russian government.
Back then, the watchdog acknowledged that it had cleared RT of wrongdoing in some of its previous investigations of alleged breaches and that since those cases, the last of which happened in 2018, “we have not had reason to investigate any of its programming, and have not found it in breach of the Code.”
Nevertheless, Ofcom decided that RT’s compliance history “demonstrates that it has particular difficulty in complying with the due impartiality rules of the Code where they relate to matters of Russian foreign policy.”
The EU also banned RT’s broadcast in March, accusing it of “disinformation and information manipulation.” The outlet decried the decisions by both London and Brussels, calling them unjust and politically motivated.
The Supreme Court, on Monday, directed the Uttar Pradesh Police to not take any precipitative action against Alt News co-founder Mohammad Zubair until it hears Zubair’s plea on July 20. Zubair, in his plea, has sought to quash six FIRs lodged against him in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri, Muzaffarnagar, Ghaziabad and Hathras districts over his tweets, according to the news agency ANI.
Supreme Court also issues notice to the Uttar Pradesh government on the plea of Mohd Zubair seeking interim bail, quashing all six FIRs registered against him in Uttar Pradesh & also challenging the constitution of SIT.
The bench of Justices DY Chandrachud and AS Bopanna issued notice on the writ petition filed by Zubair seeking to quash the FIRs registered against him and listed the matter day after tomorrow. The petition was taken up by the bench after an urgent mention was made by Advocate Vrinda Grover. The petition was otherwise not listed today.
“Since the petition is not on board today, we direct the Registry to list the matter on July 20. In the meantime, we direct that no precipitative action whatsoever be taken against the petitioner in 5 FIRs without the leave of the Court,” the bench said.
Justice Chandrachud said, “Contents of all FIRs seem to be similar. What seems to be happening is, as he gets bail in one case, he is remanded in another. This vicious cycle is continuing”.
Earlier, the court had granted Zubair interim bail in the Sitapur FIR and the Patiala House Court had granted him regular bail in the Delhi Police FIR on July 15.
Advocate Grover mentioned the petition before Chief Justice of India (CJI) NV Ramana and said that Zubair has been taken to Hathras court for remand. The CJI told Grover to mention the matter before Justice Chandrachud.
“Let hands of Hathras court be stayed. There’s a complete abuse of proceedings. There is a threat to his life. Let him be brought back to the Tihar Jail,” stated Grover while mentioning the matter before Justice Chandrachud. The bench accepted his request and agreed to hear the matter post lunch.
FIRs have been lodged against Zubair in districts like Sitapur, Lakhimpur Kheri, Ghaziabad, Muzaffarnagar, and Hathras over the charges of allegedly hurting religious feelings, making sarcastic remarks on news anchors, disrespecting Hindu gods, and inflammatory posts.
Zubair’s fresh plea challenged the constitution of the UP government’s Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the six FIR cases. Their plea said that all the six FIRs filed in UP, which have been transferred to the SIT for investigation, is the subject matter of the FIR that is being probed by the Delhi Police special cell.
The GOP’s most aggressive culture warrior, Ron DeSantis, gave the keynote address at the first annual “The Liberty Moms” meeting in Tampa, Florida last weekend. He was there to lend his explosive star power to their self-described agenda of “battling mask mandates in schools, banning library books that address sexuality and gender identity, and curtailing lessons on racial inequity and discrimination.” He is, in fact, their one true leader, using their authoritarian intimidation platform as his re-election agenda and possible springboard to the White House.
Considering his position as a general in the culture war, you’d think that DeSantis would be first in line with abortion bans and fugitive pregnant women laws like so many of his fellow GOP leaders. Instead, he stood by silently while the Attorney General of Ohio rushed right into the fray to doubt the now confirmed story of a 10-year-old rape victim who had to be transported to Indiana by her mother to obtain an abortion because she missed the 6-week deadline by 3 days. Not to be outdone, the Attorney General of Indiana immediately declared that he would investigate the doctor who performed the procedure even though abortion is still legal in the state (for the time being.) The state of Texas, meanwhile, got the conservative judiciary involved by suing the Biden administration over its guidance that emergency rooms are still obligated to perform abortions in case of a medical emergency, calling it an “attempt to use federal law to transform every emergency room in the country into a walk-in abortion clinic” and forcing “hospitals and doctors to commit crimes and risk their licensure under Texas law.” And with a bracing amount of clarity even Texas can’t claim, Idaho Republicans voted to reject a “life of the mother” exception from its party platform.
And at the federal level, Senate Republicans helpfully blocked a bill that would have protected the right of pregnant people to travel from one state to another. It’s probably only a matter of days before a state passes a law restricting such movement.
These and other actions in red states all over the country show that DeSantis is behind the right-wing curve. He defended the state’s ban on abortions after 15 weeks, without exception for rape and incest, and blandly offered to “work to expand pro-life protections” — but that’s about it. Beyond that, he’s been uncharacteristically reluctant to wade into the greatest culture battle of our time. The New York Times explained that he is under pressure from Republicans to adopt the draconian measures that have electrified the anti-abortion zealots throughout the country but remains reluctant because he feels it might hurt his chances at re-election and a possible presidential run.
It’s rare for DeSantis to be out of step with the extreme right but on this one he is and in a big way.
One of the leaders of the far right legal movement, James Bopp, the counsel to National Right to Life, a leading activist curtailing voting rights, and the man who took Citizens United to the Supreme Court and won, wrote the abortion ban “model law” that’s being adopted all over the country. There are no exceptions for rape and incest, as he told Politico:
“She would have had the baby, and as many women who have had babies as a result of rape, we would hope that she would understand the reason and ultimately the benefit of having the child,”
There is no one in America more in touch with the hardcore right than James Bopp. This will be the new baseline. And because his template does generously allow for an exception to be made if the person being forced to give birth will die otherwise (subject to very stringent rules to be set by know-nothing fanatics in state houses) his position will be considered mainstream. That makes DeSantis a RINO by comparison.
The Florida governor and presidential hopeful does have one issue, however, which he can point to as being in the vanguard that might just get him off the hook: the reversal of LGBTQ rights. He’s a clever politician so he started off with the issue of transgender kids and has gradually expanded it to businesses, relationships with their gay employees, and more recently siccing child protective services on parents who take their kids to gay-friendly events like drag shows. (So much for parents’ rights.) He’s passed dystopian legislation that’s been dubbed the “don’t say gay” bill, which prohibits teachers from discussing gay issues in schools. He clearly believes an anti-LGBTQ crusade offers a fertile culture war battlefield.
That flies in the face of Republican messaging that says gay rights aren’t really on the agenda.
From Justice Samuel Alito, who assured the nation that his reasoning in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade meant “nothing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion,” to the right-wing zealot Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., who insisted he believes “that Obergefell was wrongly decided, but I also think that at this point it is also settled law. I’m not aware of any concerted effort to get Obergefell overturned, and I don’t think that this opinion will result in that happening,” Republican officials are generally working overtime to reassure the public that they don’t have any intention of overturning marriage equality.
Hawley’s statement that it’s “settled law” is patently absurd considering that the Supreme Court just overturned a constitutional right that was decided 50 years ago and upheld numerous times over all those decades while marriage equality was decided just 7 years ago. No one can be confident they won’t overturn it and “send it to the states” where citizens’ rights go to die.
They’re talking about it. Here is Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tx., over the weekend:
And lest anyone thinks this isn’t an official position of the Republican Party, they should take a look at the last GOP platformcarried over from 2016, in the part where they discuss appointing Supreme Court justices. They’ve only gotten more extreme since then:
Only such appointments will enable courts to begin to reverse the long line of activist decisions — including Roe, Obergefell, and the Obamacare cases — that have usurped Congress’s and states’ lawmaking authority, undermined constitutional protections, expanded the power of the judiciary at the expense of the people and their elected representatives, and stripped the people of their power to govern themselves
The person who made that addition to the platform (and made sure that all inclusive language was kept out) was none other than James Bopp, the triumphant, right-wing, mastermind who represents National Right to Life. He’s an anti-LGBT warrior as well and he’s on a roll. Ron Desantis is too.
Kendall Jenner seemingly confirmed that she and Devin Booker are back together with a photo of the pair at Michael D. Ratner and Lauren Rothberg’s wedding on July 17. Kendall took to her Instagram Story to share various photos of herself in a stunning, skintight green gown for the occasion. In one shot, a man appeared behind her, with his hands around her waist while wearing a tux. Although Kendall didn’t show off her face or the man’s face, another guest’s video from the event revealed that Devin was, in fact, her date to the wedding. This comes less than one month after it was reported that the two had broken up after two years together.
Kendall and Devin started dating in 2020 and proved just how serious their relationship was when he was her plus one to sister, Kourtney Kardashian’s, lavish Italy wedding in May. However, on June 22, reports surfaced that Kendall and Devin had broken up. However, they were spotted together in Malibu just days later, and HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY reported that the breakup might not be permanent.
“[Devin’s] back to wooing [Kendall] like when they first met,” our source explained. “It seems like her breaking up with him was a real wake up call. She didn’t do it to play games or mess with his head, but it definitely got his attention. Their friends all keep saying how they’re just waiting for them to get back together. They truly don’t believe Kendall and Devin are done for good.”
The two spent Fourth of July weekend together in the Hamptons, and then Kendall further proved that things were back on when she wore a t-shirt supporting Devin’s basketball team, the Phoenix Suns. Ahead of the July 17 wedding, Kendall and Devin were also seen vacationing with friends. The lovebirds are definitely taking advantage of the NBA off-season and making sure to spend as much time together as possible!
