We’ve heard this before. After almost six years of promises to imminently reveal smoking-gun proof of tampering with the 2020 election, President Donald Trump stopped short again on Thursday.

In a prime-time presidential address that the White House and Republican allies said would present “bombshell findings” from an exhaustive reexamination of law enforcement and intelligence files, Trump never claimed to have any evidence or substantial proof of altered votes or compromised machines. Instead he described “vulnerabilities” in election infrastructure, without alleging that the weaknesses were exploited.

If you were playing bingo or a drinking game, all the typical words were used as he spoke to the American people: “Deep state.” “Rigged and stolen.” “Conspiring.” “Manipulation.” “Corrupt.” “Fraud.” “Cover up.” But the bottom-line message he clearly wanted to leave with the public was this: He is not a loser, regardless of the result of the 2020 election. There were dark forces at work to thwart him. And if his party loses this fall’s midterm election, he intimated, that may not be an honest outcome either. It’s no secret that Trump is deeply unpopular. According to polls, just 37% approve of his performance in the latest Washington Post-Ipsos survey.

And as you may’ve heard, not all the networks even ran the speech live. Axios said the topic put broadcasters between a rock and a hard place: air potentially false claims about the 2020 election or risk backlash from the White House and a confrontational Federal Communications Commission. Trump blasted them during his speech and said their government-issued licenses should be revoked. “They and others in the media are part of a plot,” he said. “They want to continue this fraud for whatever reason.”

As many Republican officials took to social media to push for passing the SAVE America Act, Democrats used the address to argue against the Act — which passed the House in February but is stalled in the Senate.

These Canadian wildfires are no joke. The boreal forests of Canada are part of Earth’s largest land biome, a greenbelt of wilderness that encircles the globe, and they’ve been suffering from the planet’s thermostat being jacked up. Wood-boring pests that flourish in milder climates have swept north and east, through tens of millions of acres. Droughts and dwindling snowpack have stressed the trees.

And as we’ve learned, once a wildfire starts, it can spread to an area too massive to control. Now, the heavy, pungent wildfire smoke is darkening skies in the U.S. from the Great Lakes to parts of the East Coast, reducing visibility and prompting warnings that breathing the air outside could be dangerous. Officials in many cities urged residents to stay inside or wear masks outside as air quality reached unhealthy to hazardous levels, meaning it’s unhealthy for anyone, regardless of health conditions.

When will it end? The Northeast is expected to be smoky throughout today, especially later in the day. But forecasters expect another weather system eventually to push the hottest air away, taking the smoke with it. But in the Upper Midwest, closer to the fires, the heat and smoke are likely to linger through the weekend. It could still be quite heavy at times across the Great Lakes, especially on Saturday.

Summertime is the perfect time for a refreshingly crisp, icy cold beer. And while there’s plenty of opinions on what makes for the best beer this time of year, one group doesn’t care what suds you choose, just that you down them in hopes of reaching a specific target: One million beers.

The Wall Street Journal reports on a WhatsApp group where roughly 1,000 drinkers around the world (who are mostly strangers to each other) are jointly documenting the quaffing of one million beers with individual photos and a running tally until the goal is met. Marcus Wright, a 31-year-old based in Germany, currently tops the leaderboard at about 4.1 beers a day and more than 1,500 distinct brews, though even he admits his stats are “probably a bit concerning.”