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President to remind employers to honor worker protection on hot days and announce new funding to improve weather forecasts
The Guardian’s Michael Sainato is out with a look at how many Americans will be dealing with high, and often extremely high, temperatures today, and the numbers are staggering:
Over 170 million Americans are under heat alerts this week, according to the National Weather Service, as a heat wave that has affected the southern US for weeks has expanded into parts of the Great Plains, midwest and north-east US.
Between 250 and 275 million people in the US will face heat indexes of at least 90F (32C), as the US braces for the hottest weather of the summer averaged across the country.
America’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan will be the subject of a hearing by a House foreign affairs subcommittee. Expect the Republican majority to pin the blame on Biden for the deaths and abandonments that marked the end of America’s longest war.
Biden will at 3pm host Giorgia Meloni at the White House. She’s the Italian prime minister whose far-right ties have raised eyebrows among many on the left in Washington and elsewhere.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will take reporters’ questions at 1.30pm.
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