## Triple-digit temperatures expected over July Fourth holiday; nearly 150 million under heat alerts

Authored by nbcnews.com

Several daily heat records were broken Tuesday, and more than 130 could be set through next Tuesday.

The California cities of San Rafael and Livermore hit all-time highs Wednesday, clocking in at 100 and 110 degrees respectively.

Excessive heat warnings are in effect for much of California and southern Nevada and parts of Arizona, Washington and Oregon.

An excessive heat warning means potentially life-threatening conditions, “with a high to very high risk for much of the population due to long duration heat with little to no overnight relief.”.

The National Weather Service in the San Francisco Bay Area warned that “an exceptionally dangerous situation is underway as we enter a potentially historic and deadly heat event.”.

It said the heat wave is expected to spread east into the Mid-Atlantic toward the end of the week.

About 13 million people are at risk of severe storms across the western High Plains and the Ohio River Valley. »

### A new way to prevent HIV delivers dramatic results in trial

Authored by npr.org

A new way to prevent HIV delivers dramatic results in trial.

Now a new trial —- called PURPOSE 1 —- points the way to a new preventive strategy —- a twice yearly injection of a drug called lenacapavir.

The trial began on August 2021 and, so far, not a single woman who received the injections has contracted HIV. »

### Welsh Government to ban politicians from lying

Authored by telegraph.co.uk

Mr Antoniw said: “The Welsh Government will bring forward legislation before 2026 for the disqualification of members and candidates found guilty of deliberate deception, through an independent judicial process.”.

We have a commitment from our Government that our democracy will be the first in the world to introduce a general prohibition on deception by politicians.

On Tuesday, the Welsh Government committed to the legislation as part of a deal with Plaid Cymru and Mr Waters. »

### Sakaguchi isn’t interested in revisiting Final Fantasy, Lost Odyssey or Blue Dragon

Authored by videogameschronicle.com

Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi has said he’s not interested in working on the Square Enix series again, or in bringing classic Mistwalker games to new platforms.

In an interview with Bloomberg, Sakaguchi said he’s not interested in working on Final Fantasy again, partly because he’s “switched to a consumer rather than a creator”.

Reiterating comments he made in a VGC interview in 2021, Sakaguchi also reportedly said he has no desire to remaster older Mistwalker games like Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon. »

### Team Fortress 2 petition pressures Valve with microtransaction boycott

Authored by pcgamesn.com

But the bot plight isn’t over yet, and now the community-driven petition demanding Valve fixes the FPS has one more move: boycott microtransactions.

With the annual July summer update approaching, the team behind the petition suggests players boycott microtransaction spending, to put even more pressure on Valve to act.

Between this petition and Team Fortress 2 falling to ‘mostly negative’ on Steam for the first time, Valve is taking notice. »

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