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Up First briefing: Extreme heat; pandemic fraud; Supreme Court election theory ruling

The South faces record-breaking heat. Over $200 billion in pandemic business loans appear to be fraudulent. The Supreme Court rejects the controversial independant state leglistatures theory.
Patrons at a club in Kharkiv hold sparklers in the darkened room. Despite the ongoing war, people are still finding a way release tension in nightclubs in the the battered city.

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Millions of people in much of the Southern U.S. are under extreme heat advisories. In Texas, residents have experienced 100-degree temperatures for three weeks and counting. (via KERA)

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