ANDY NGO: Dayton shooter Connor Betts may be antifa’s first mass killer.

MENTAL ILLNESS AND MASS MURDER: “If, consistent with the Constitution, there are ways to reduce the ability of potential shooters to obtain firearms, we should implement them. If, consistent with the Constitution, there are ways to identify and treat mentally disturbed potential shooters before they kill, we should implement them.”

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LAYERS OF EDITORS AND FACT-CHECKERS: The Washington Post Doesn’t Want to Talk About the Monster Correction It Published Today. “The correction on Korsha Wilson’s July 23 Washington Post feature about black families trying to hold onto their forebears’ farmland is gruesome. It’s 579 words long, a little more than a fifth of the length of the revised article. It has 15 bullet points. In print, it’s so long it has to jump from the first page of the Food section to the fourth.”

There’s no disgrace in correcting errors — in fact, the willingness to do so should be a good sign. But when an error this big slips through, it suggests there’s something bigger that’s wrong. And call me crazy, but these resume lines don’t scream “careful accuracy” to me:

Wilson is a freelancer who’s had bylines in the New York Times and many food publications, including Bon Appétit, Saveur, and Food & Wine. She hosts a podcast called A Hungry Society. In February, she wrote a much-talked-about piece in Eater about how the character of much mainstream food criticism is still too white and male. In March, she spoke at SXSW as part of a panel discussion about how food can help “make a more inclusive world.”

Sigh. Also kinda pathetic that the Post won’t talk about what went wrong, but just refers people to a PR flack.

‘THIS DIDN’T AGE WELL:’ Joaquin Castro was against ‘maliciously targeting and endangering’ people’s safety before he was for it.

I’D VOTE FOR TAMMY: Tammy Bruce Says ‘We Will Have a Woman President, and She Will Be Conservative’

ZOOM: What the Ford Mustang Shelby GT500’s 0–100–0-MPH Time Means.

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UNEXPECTEDLY: Automakers Need to Start Worrying About the Batteries Lurking in Older EVs. “A number of electric vehicles in the United States are about to celebrate their 10th birthday. A bunch of them are Nissan Leafs, the first mainstream BEV made widely available in the U.S. market.”

More:

“A refurb program is needed to help owners who were affected by Gen 1 vehicles,” Kan-ade said. “I believe that these early battery failures are part of a learning curve that was passed on to the consumer. Nissan offered a battery replacement program for $5,500, but unfortunately they quietly raised the price to $8,500.”

Despite Nissan being among the first automakers to confront these issues, it is not the only one that has to confront them. Other automakers are facing similar problems stemming from hybrid cars, and we’re just a few years away from a glut of all-electric Teslas coping with an identical plight — followed swiftly by every other automaker that decided to build BEVs at scale.

Among the biggest concerns is resale value. With no refurb solution, owners will essentially be forced to throw a car onto the secondhand market needing thousands in repairs. Sure, they could foot the bill themselves, but why bother replacing the most expensive component in your vehicle just to sell it? Likewise, why would the average used-car buyer choose to spend the cash when they’re already in search of a bargain?

These are questions a lot of us have been asking for a long time, because once battery capacity is diminished far enough, what’s left of an EV is basically disposable.

My modest proposal: A recycling fee in excess of whatever tax incentives EV owners might have received.

FASTER, PLEASE: Stem cell treatment may reverse heart attack damage.

NICE: The F-35 can now help the US Army track and destroy incoming enemy missiles.

NOT THE FIRST TIME WE’VE HAD THIS KIND OF PROBLEM: Deadly Germ Research Is Shut Down at Army Lab Over Safety Concerns.

Safety concerns at a prominent military germ lab have led the government to shut down research involving dangerous microbes like the Ebola virus.

“Research is currently on hold,” the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, in Fort Detrick, Md., said in a statement on Friday. The shutdown is likely to last months, Caree Vander Linden, a spokeswoman, said in an interview.

The statement said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention decided to issue a “cease and desist order” last month to halt the research at Fort Detrick because the center did not have “sufficient systems in place to decontaminate wastewater” from its highest-security labs.

But there has been no threat to public health, no injuries to employees and no leaks of dangerous material outside the laboratory, Ms. Vander Linden said.

One hopes this is correct.

UGH: Venezuela’s female refugees trafficked at higher rate amid political crisis.

IT’S COME TO THIS: Joaquin Castro outed one of his own donors in bid to shame Trump supporters.

LARRY KUDLOW: The Chinese Economy Is Crumbling Under Weight Of Tariffs.

Related: “Chinese companies circulating at least $200b of IOUs as real payments dry up. The Chinese property developers are going to detonate.”

FAKE NEWS: No, an Ohio Republican Did Not Say Drag Queens Cause Mass Shootings.

COLOR ME UNSURPRISED: Keto diet may help control Type 2 diabetes.

NIMBY: Rich Libs in Posh D.C. Suburb Freak Out Over Affordable Housing Proposal.

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: What can I do about the vexatious racket of windchimes?

RUSSIANS! LONE GUNMEN! UNDER MY BED! USA TODAY headquarters evacuated after what authorities describe as mistaken report of armed person. “There was no indication of a shooting or a shooter at the building, according to a federal law enforcement official who was not authorized to speak publicly. Alarms sounded inside the building as police squad cars, firetrucks and ambulances converged on the scene. Law enforcement officers with rifles and body armor were patrolling the area and a helicopter hovered overhead.”

I’M TOO SEXY FOR MY WINGS: The Sexiest Dinosaurs Learned How to Fly First.

CHRISTIAN TOTO: Are Deplorables the Good Guys in ‘The Hunt?’

ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE: Caroline Glick: Associated Press is targeting pro-Israel Jews.

YOUR DAILY TREACHER: Time Magazine Counted the Number of Lines Women Get in Tarantino Films for Some Reason.