Only one thing will send gas prices back below $4 a gallon, analyst says

Despite West Texas intermediate crude oil futures dipping below $100 per barrel on Tuesday, serious gas price relief may be unlikely happen until motorists make adjustments by driving less. "I think the only thing that's going to make a dent in gasoline or jet fuel prices is demand destruction," Vectis Energy Partners principal Tamar Essner said on Yahoo Finance Live after being asked when gas prices may drop below $4 a gallon (video above). Consumers are beginning to see some pressure taken off their wallets when making their stop at the local gas pump, with the average price of regular unleaded gasoline dropping for the third straight week last week, but prices remain exorbitant as drivers haven't pulled back aggressively on travel.

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  Gas prices will ‘push higher’ until demand destruction kicks in, analyst says

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  These 3 cities have gas for less than $4 per gallon, the cheapest on the Mississippi Coast

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Can you spot the mountain lion stalking the elk?

Travel Guide Book on Saturday shared an image showing the hind portion of an elk and, somewhere in the arroyo, a predatory mountain lion. Research reveals that the image was captured by a motion-sensor trail camera in October 2019 as part of an arroyo restoration project in New Mexico's Rio Mora National Wildlife Refuge. Rio Mora shared the image as a quiz for its Facebook followers in July 2020.

Car quality is slipping: These are the brands with the most and least complaints, study finds

The study, in its 36th year, asks new car owners to report problems with their vehicles in the first 90 days of ownership. The numbers had been trending down in recent years. Last year, the industry average was 162 owner complaints per 100 vehicles.

Donald Trump wants to sue former FBI officials Lisa Page and Peter Strzok, but can't find them after a half-dozen tries since March

Donald Trump filed a 108-page lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and 20 other Democrats in March. Trump lawyers say they've tried and failed 6 times to serve defendants Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. The lawsuit alleges a sweeping 'plot' to tie Trump to Russia during the 2016 campaign.

Here’s What Happens If You Eat Mold, According to Food Safety Experts

It happens to the best of us: You distractedly eat a piece of cheese from your fridge, only to realize as you're snacking on the last of it that it's moldy. While that alone can make you feel nauseous, it's only natural to wonder…what happens if you eat mold? Can you get sick from eating mold or is it no big deal?

U.S. funeral home owner who sold body parts pleads guilty to fraud

A former Colorado funeral home owner pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a federal charge of defrauding relatives of the dead by dissecting their family members' corpses and selling the body parts without permission, a practice exposed in a 2018 Reuters investigative report https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-bodies-funeral. Megan Hess, who operated a funeral home called Sunset Mesa and a human body parts business called Donor Services from the same building, entered the plea to the charge of fraud at a hearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Gordon Gallagher in Grand Junction, Colorado. Gallagher scheduled Hess, who had previously pleaded not guilty, to be sentenced in January, with the prosecution calling for 12 to 15 years in prison.

Say Goodbye To Macy Gray — She Outed Herself As A TERF

You can't support someone's rights or claim to believe in their existence as you take away their basic rights — like their right to play on a school sports team. Trans girls and women are being barred from competing in sports in states around the country. Gray's trans-exclusionary radical feminist (TERF) behavior isn't new (J.K. Rowling — who supported Gray on Twitter — and writer Chimamanda Nzgozi Adichie are other famous examples), but it's even more upsetting considering that cis Black women should be supporting trans women because we're fighting the same fight against the same oppressors.

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  Macy Gray accused of transphobia after saying surgery 'doesn't make you a woman'

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  J.K. Rowling backs Macy Gray's anti-trans remarks about what makes 'a woman'

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Tearful WWII vet says on his 100th birthday that current state of America is 'not what they died for'

A U.S. veteran who saw action in World War II lamented the current state of the country while celebrating his 100th birthday. Carl Spurlin Dekel, who spent his special day on June 29 with friends and family, broke down in tears as he told Fox13 in an interview shared the day after that his fellow soldiers did not die in the war for what America has now purportedly become.

Russia's stated war aims begin catching up with reality

LONDON (Reuters) - The speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament said on Tuesday that Ukraine had become a "terrorist state" and was doing everything to ensure that Russia did not stop its invasion at the borders of the eastern Donbas region as advertised. The remark by Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin marked an escalation of Russian war rhetoric but ignored the fact that Moscow's forces already occupy large parts of southern Ukraine as well. It suggested that Moscow, fresh from seizing the last parts of Ukraine's Luhansk region on Sunday, might be preparing once more to expand its stated war objectives, which it reined back a month into the invasion after an assault on the capital Kyiv and an advance on the second largest city Kharkiv were beaten back.

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  Russian Duma speaker: Ukraine pushing Moscow to expand its military goals - RIA

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  Russia claims control of Luhansk region of Donbas

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Mitch McConnell says the labor shortage will be solved when people run out of stimulus money because Americans are 'flush for the moment'

Mitch McConnell says that labor shortages will end when workers run out of stimulus savings. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell offered his own theory as to why at an event in Paducah, Kentucky, on Tuesday. McConnell opposed President Joe Biden's stimulus law, which passed with only Democratic votes in March 2021 after two previous rescue packages approved by the Trump administration.

Putin Pal Drops Menacing Hint: a ‘Cleansing’ Is Coming for Europe

The time has come for the forgetful Europe to give itself a moral cleansing,” Lukashenko said, without going into further detail about what that would entail, according to BelTA. Lukashenko mentioned that efforts to fight Nazis from World War II, or what Russia calls the “Great Patriotic War,” are not over yet—echoing erroneous Russian claims that they are waging war in Ukraine in order to “denazify” or fight Nazis in Ukraine. It is “a war to destroy the Slavic ethnos, cultures and entire nations.

Rep. Lauren Boebert's Terrible Take On Denmark Shooting Slammed As 'Deadly' Stupid

There was just a mass shooting in Denmark, a country with some of the strictest gun laws in Europe. It's time to admit that gun laws DO NOT stop mass shootings! tweeted the Republican gun fanatic, who once had her children pose for a Christmas picture holding assault rifles.

Bill Gates just won legal approval to buy 2,100 acres of North Dakota farmland worth $13.5M — and people are ‘livid’ about it all across the state

Bill Gates made his fortune in tech, but he's now betting big on something completely different: farmland. Last week, Gates secured the legal approval for purchasing 2,100 acres of farmland from northeastern North Dakota potato growers Campbell Farms. Of course, this isn't first time Gates has invested in the asset class.

Flags to be lowered in Kentucky after 3 officers killed

Flags at Kentucky state buildings will be lowered to half-staff Tuesday morning in honor of three officers who were killed when a man with a rifle opened fire on police attempting to serve a warrant, Gov. Andy Beshear said Monday. Flags will remain at half-staff until sunset Thursday in remembrance of Floyd County sheriff's deputy and Martin City fire Chief William Petry, Prestonsburg police Capt. Ralph Frasure and Prestonsburg police Officer Jacob Chaffins, Beshear said in a news release. The three were killed Thursday night in an hourslong standoff at a home in Allen, a small town in the hills of Appalachia in eastern Kentucky.

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  Funerals begin for 3 Kentucky officers killed in ambush

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  Officials offer new details in deadly officer shooting in Eastern Kentucky

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USPS Prices Will Increase on July 10. Find Out How Much More It Will Cost to Send Mail

Otherwise, your letter will make its way back to you. The USPS announced upcoming pricing changes that begin on July 10. Here's what you need to know about the news.

Adam Kinzinger and his family are getting so many death threats over his Trump criticism that his office put together a 3-minute audio clip

Rep. Adam Kinzinger says he's been getting threatening calls to his office in Washington, DC. People have also threatened to go after him and his family. Kinzinger is a member of the House committee investigating the insurrection.

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  Rep. Adam Kinzinger releases expletive-laced audio of numerous calls to D.C. office threatening violence

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  Adam Kinzinger Shares Unhinged Voicemails From Trump Supporters Threatening His Family

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Jan. 6 panel: More turning up with evidence against Trump

More witnesses are coming forward with new details on the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot following former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson's devastating testimony last week against former President Donald Trump, says a member of a House committee investigating the insurrection. The panel already has subpoenaed former White House counsel Pat Cipollone, who investigators remain hopeful will appear Wednesday for a deposition, and said it would also welcome follow-up details from Secret Service members with Trump that day. Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., cited Hutchinson's testimony that Trump wanted to join an angry mob of his supporters who marched on Jan. 6, 2021, to the Capitol, where they rioted, as particularly valuable in “inspiring” more people to step forward as the committee gets set for at least two public hearings this month.

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  GOP Rep. Kinzinger publishes 'unhinged' voicemail threats left by Trump supporters

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  Jan. 6 committee updates: Next public hearing scheduled for July 12; new witnesses have been coming forward to the panel since Cassidy Hutchinson's damning testimony, Kinzinger says

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Skin Cancer Symptoms: Spot On Face Was Basal Cell Carcinoma

This past spring, Jeff Karp had just undergone his first full-body, routine skin cancer check and was about to walk out of the exam room, when, on a whim, the 46-year-old decided to ask his dermatologist about a spot on his cheek. Karp first noticed it a year or two earlier, but thought it was part of the aging process. “I kind of debated whether I should ask about it or not,” Karp, Ph.D, a biomedical engineer and professor of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, told TODAY.

The omicron subvariant now dominating the U.S. is ‘the worst version of the virus that we’ve seen’

New immune-evading Omicron subvariant BA.5 is now dominant in the U.S.—and previous heavy hitter “stealth Omicron” is now a shadow of its former self, according to federal health data released Tuesday. BA.5 is estimated to have caused nearly 54% of COVID infections in the U.S. last week, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Along with twin variant BA.4, it swept South Africa this spring thanks to its ability to evade immunity from both prior infection and vaccination.

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  Health Care — Highly transmissible subvariant now dominant in US

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  Now That BA.5 Is Dominant, Stopping It Will Be Difficult

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High cost of Russian gains in Ukraine may limit new advance

After more than four months of ferocious fighting, Russia claimed a key victory: full control over one of the two provinces in Ukraine's eastern industrial heartland. The critical question now is whether Russia can muster enough strength for a new offensive to complete its seizure of the Donbas and make gains elsewhere in Ukraine. “Yes, the Russians have seized the Luhansk region, but at what price?” asked Oleh Zhdanov, a military analyst in Ukraine, noting that some Russian units involved in the battle lost up to a half their soldiers.

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  Russia hammers Ukraine's Donetsk region after seizing Luhansk

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  Putin declares victory in eastern Ukraine region of Luhansk

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Parade Suspect Told Family He’d ‘Kill Everyone’ Years Before Massacre

There was not sufficient probable cause to arrest Crimo for the threat, and no complaint was filed, according to Covelli, who said the Highland Park Police Department “did immediately notify the Illinois State Police of the incident. The threat was directed at family inside of the home,” said Covelli. He noted that Crimo had previously come to the attention of authorities in April 2019, when an unnamed individual “contacted [the] Highland Park Police Department a week after learning of Mr. Crimo attempting suicide.

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  Authorities say July 4 parade shooting suspect had 2 contacts with police in 2019

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  Rooftop shooter kills 6 at July 4 parade in Highland Park

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Russia's speaker asks parliament to look at scrapping Norway sea treaty

The speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament asked a senior lawmaker on Tuesday to look into scrapping a treaty that establishes the country's maritime border with NATO member Norway. The treaty, which was signed in 2010, aimed to put an end to disputes between Russia and Norway in the Barents Sea, the part of the Arctic Ocean adjoining the northern coasts of Norway and Russia. Responding to comments in parliament accusing Norway of blocking food deliveries destined for Russian-populated settlements on the Svalbard archipelago, State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin asked the head of the chamber's international affairs committee to look into "denouncing" the treaty.