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Yesterday, in Manhattan, New York, ceremonies were held to commemorate nearly three thousand people who died 22 years ago in the attack by Islamic terrorists on the World Trade Center towers. It was the largest terrorist attack that took place on US territory - Poles also died in it.more

The relentless influx of immigrants to New York City and the associated expenses could ruin the city, which is facing a $12 billion deficit. - warned New York Mayor Eric Adams.more

New York tiktoker Kenny Bollwerk, who gained popularity by broadcasting videos about the everyday life of rats in the metropolis, has gained such a large fan base that he offers tours of the most rat-infested areas of the city, the Canadian portal CBC reported.more

California Forever - this is the name of the city of the future that a group of Silicon Valley businessmen wants to build. A consortium of billionaires has already secretly bought up huge tracts of land for this purpose. To turn the land into a city, however, they need the approval of local authorities and residents.more

In the summer of 2020, the royal couple bought a vast estate in Montecito (Santa Barbara County), California, for over $14 million. Now they are looking for a new place to live - and there are many indications that they already know where exactly they want to find it.more

Hurricane Lee intensified rapidly and was classified as Category 5 yesterday. From Sunday, it could cause dangerous conditions on beaches along the east coast of the United States. Wind gusts reach 260 km per hour.more

A U.S. Delta airlines plane en route to Barcelona had to turn back to Atlanta due to, as the pilot put it, "a biohazard problem." According to the media, one of the passengers was suffering from diarrhea, the BBC News website reported.more

Vivek Ramaswamy, who wants to run as a Republican in the 2024 presidential elections and is in third place in support polls, intends to give Russia the areas it occupied in eastern Ukraine and include it in the "European security structure," reports the Hill daily.more

Canadians from the LGBTQ community should check local regulations before travelling to the US, the Canadian government has warned in its latest travel advisory. Previously, similar recommendations applied to countries such as Russia and Uganda.more

Self-service checkouts are one of the factors that may increase Americans' sense of loneliness - reports the Insider website, citing PlayUSA research. According to this poll, two-thirds of Americans believe that technology makes it harder for people to socialize.more

The district of New York - Manhattan, ranks first in the United States in terms of the cost of living. Two more occupy Hawaiian Honolulu and San Francisco, California.more

House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced Tuesday that the chamber could launch an investigation as early as September as part of impeachment proceedings against President Joe Biden over alleged corruption related to his and his son's activities. Republicans are demanding documents from Biden, including bank and credit card statements.more

The first tropical storm in over 80 years, Hilary caused record-breaking rainfall and flooding in California and Nevada, although so far the worst-case scenarios have not materialized, the media reported. Due to flooding, the national park in Death Valley was closed, and the desert resort of Palm Springs was cut off from the rest of the world.more

Joe Biden wants to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un "without preconditions" to discuss the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told Kyodo News yesterday.more

A Texas court has awarded a woman $1.2 billion in damages from her former partner for distributing intimate photos of her in revenge for their breakup, the BBC news portal reported. In almost all US states, so-called "revenge porn" (pornography for revenge) is considered a crime.more

Nearly two-thirds of American adults own a firearm or intend to purchase one in the future, according to the American Pew Research Center, quoted by Axios.more

The inhabitants of Belgium are indisputably the richest people in the world, according to the latest Global Wealth Report. Half of Belgian adults have assets worth more than €228,000. euros, and in this country with 12 million inhabitants, as many as half a million people meet the definition of a millionaire.more

The two billionaires were still due to face each other in an MMA duel in August, broadcast on the social media platforms they own. However, they have since failed to agree on a date for this fight. Zuckerberg issued a statement on Threads and Instagram saying it was "frivolous" on Musk's part, so he is "no longer pursuing this topic".more

The Space Force and the U.S. Air Force held a contest based on the need to hack the system of a U.S. satellite. The prize was $50,000, "The Insider" reported yesterday.more

Scientists have set new limits on a person's resistance to being in hot temperatures. Previous studies have shown that even a healthy, young person can die after six hours of being in heat at 35 degrees Celsius (95 Fahrenheit) combined with 100% humidity. The new research shows that this threshold can be much lower, sciencealert.com reported.more

A mission involving a Polish astronaut to the International Space Station (ISS) creates new opportunities in spaceflight for other countries as well. It also continues the evolution of humanity as we create a permanent home beyond our planet," announced the Axiom Space spokeswoman. She added that the Polish astronaut will train with NASA in preparation for his flight.more

Wyatt Kauffman slipped on a cliff and fell after ‘moving out of the way so other people could take a picture’.more

The women's competition in the 52nd edition of the prestigious New York City Marathon (5 November) promises great excitement at the end of the season at this distance. Kenyan defending champion Sharon Lokedi and Olympic champion, her compatriot Peres Jepchirchir, will be competing.more

"Russia must be contained in Ukraine now so that American soldiers do not have to shed blood later to renew peace in Europe as they did in both world wars," President Andrzej Duda said in an interview published in the Washington Post. The president also said he would push the White House to ensure that Ukraine received an invitation to join Nato at next year's summit.more

Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity spaceplane took three customers on the company's first tourist flight to the edge of space yesterday. On board the craft were the first representatives of Antigua and Barbuda in space.more