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Were you rubbing your eyes and blinking in disbelief when Joe Biden gently touched the King’s back on his visit to Windsor Castle yesterday? more

Despite his benign public image, US President Joe Biden is often short-tempered and shouts at subordinates behind the scenes, Axios reports. According to the portal, some of the president's advisers avoid meeting him face to face for this reason.more

US President Joe Biden arrived in London late last night. There he will meet with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and King Charles III.more

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has fully approved the first formulation to slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease. She also warned about its potentially life-threatening side effects.more

Willard Miller, the first of two Iowa teenagers to plead guilty to killing a Spanish teacher with a baseball bat, has been sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 35 years.more

British Defense Minister Ben Wallace's candidacy for the post of NATO secretary-general has been blocked by U.S. President Joe Biden, who didn't like that London announced a program to train Ukrainian pilots on F-16 aircraft without consulting Washington, the Daily Telegraph reported.more

As many as 10 million people registered accounts on the Meta-owned Threads platform in its first seven hours of operation, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta's chief executive and rival of Twitter owner Elon Musk, announced last night. "5 million signups in the first 4 hours," he - he wrote in the first post posted on his new app.more

For the 47th time, Macy's department store celebrated Independence Day in New York with a fireworks display on Tuesday. The organizers called the country's largest event on this occasion a patriotic, pyrotechnic tribute to the USA.more

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has cleared the flying car prototype of a California startup. It notified UPI on Monday.more

Russia is incubating a cottage industry of new digital surveillance tools to suppress domestic opposition to the war in Ukraine. The tech may also be sold overseas.more

Julian Sands disappeared in January while hiking in the California mountains. So far, the search for a British actor has been fruitless. Only now, half a year later, walkers discovered his remains near the top of Mount Balty. The cause of death is not yet known.more

Poland is the most pro-American country in the world, 93 percent. of residents speak positively of the US; the other is Israel. In both these countries, the percentage of those who think well of the United States is higher than in the United States itself, according to a survey published by the American research center Pew Research Center.more

Tesla and Twitter boss Elon Musk regularly takes ketamine, and Google co-founder Sergey Brin - hallucinogenic mushrooms - informs the Wall Street Journal. The diary describes the growing popularity of psychedelic drugs among Silicon Valley elites, who hope that drugs will help them gain an advantage over the competition.more

The record-breaking heat that hit the state of Texas in June in the US is becoming the norm there. They kill more people than tornadoes, hurricanes and floods combined.more

The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday rejected an appeal by a North Carolina school that required students to wear only skirts. Thus, previous court decisions, which found that mandatory skirts violate the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, ensuring equality before the law, remain in force.more

Yesterday, it was officially confirmed that the passengers of the submarine Titan, on which they set off on a commercial expedition to the wreck of the Titanic, are dead. They all died in the implosion. The wreckage of the boat was found yesterday.more

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There are several possible scenarios for the fate of the passengers trapped in the missing Titan experimental submarine, but the chances of them surviving seem slim, news.com.au reported.more

Storms, tornadoes, heat waves, and other dangerous weather events threaten more than 50 million Americans. The southern areas of the country are most vulnerable to extreme weather, according to local media.more

Canadian and American services are conducting an extensive search operation to find a tourist submarine that went missing on Sunday in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean. There are five people on board the vessel that was supposed to observe the wreck of the Titanic, including British billionaire and explorer Hamish Harding and a father and son from one of Pakistan's richest families.more

It is very likely that Tesla will do something very important in France, announced billionaire Elon Musk in an interview with the France 2 TV station. He announced that he did not want to run in the US presidential election.more

Spotify has dropped its contract with Duchess Meghan, wife of Britain's Prince Harry, for her to create podcasts after one season. The contract, with an estimated value of $25m, was one of the largest that the princely couple had entered into after leaving the royal family.more

Several US government agencies have been victims of a ransomware cyberattack, the Cyber Intelligence and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) reported yesterday. According to MSNBC television, the perpetrators of the cyber attack, which has previously affected institutions and companies around the world, were the Russian-speaking CLOP gang.more

We have the means to continue sending more military capabilities and replenish equipment losses suffered by Ukraine during its counter-offensive, assured the head of the Pentagon, Lloyd Austin, after the meeting of the Ukraine Defense Support Contact Group at NATO headquarters in Brussels.more

Washing hands, as a basic hygienic activity, occupies an important place in some cultures, and sometimes even has religious significance. Due to the pandemic, this activity has become especially important. Meanwhile, it turns out that almost half of Americans do not use soap when washing their hands.more