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At least four people were killed, including the attacker, in a shooting in the town of Farmington, New Mexico, on Wednesday, local police said. Many people were injured.more

Elon Musk has announced on Twitter that he will be stepping down as head of this social media platform. The billionaire may be succeeded by Linda Yaccarino, who is in charge of the advertising division at media company NBCUniversal, the US Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday night.more

A 23-year-old UK citizen accused of hacking Twitter accounts and other cyber crimes faces 77 years in prison; he hacked into the accounts of US presidents and other celebrities, high-tech website The Record reported yesterday.more

President Biden's administration intends to change the immigration law from that in place during the Covid-19 pandemic to one referring to the earlier one. This is to curb undocumented border crossings and encourage legal efforts to come to the US.more

A jury in New York yesterday found Donald Trump guilty of sexually abusing and defaming the now 79-year-old American writer E. Jean Carroll in a civil trial. It awarded her damages of $5 million.more

Ahead of the 2024 election and after formally announcing his reelection bid, President Joe Biden is facing low approval ratings and skepticism about his mental and physical fitness to serve in the White House, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll released Sunday.more

"The coronation of Charles III was a stunning spectacle." - confessed US First Lady Jill Biden in an interview with the Associated Press yesterday. She is the first spouse of a sitting US president to attend such an event.more

Yesterday, a bandit got out of a silver sedan and began shooting at people in a shopping mall in the Dallas suburb of Allen, Texas, killing at least nine people and forcing hundreds of shoppers to flee in panic, AP reported.more

No American president in history has attended the coronation of a British monarch, and the current US leader Joe Biden, who values his Irish blood, did not intend to break this rule and sent the first lady Jill Biden to the coronation ceremony of King Charles III, reported the portal of the American weekly "Time" .more

The system developed at the University of Texas at Austin (USA) - an artificial intelligence connected to an MRI scanner - read the thoughts of volunteers. For now, it still makes mistakes, but in the future, similar devices could help people who are unable to communicate normally.more

U.S. doctors say that the number of people allergic to pollen is increasing every year. Allergologists are being approached by adult patients who have never had allergies, but now have hay fever during the pollen season. According to experts, this may be due to an increase in pollen concentrations in the atmosphere, which in turn is a result of climate change.more

Florida, USA, yesterday saw the execution of 56-year-old Darryl B. Barwick, who was convicted of murdering 24-year-old Rebecca Wendt at her home in Panama City in 1986. The sentence was carried out by administering a lethal injection.more

Public schools in the city of Flint, in the US state of Michigan, have banned students from coming in with backpacks for safety reasons. The ban went into effect Monday and includes fully transparent backpacks, the NBC station's website reported.more

IBM, one of the world's oldest and largest information technology companies, plans to halt recruitment. Artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to replace 7,800 jobs in the coming years.more

Barack Obama performed last night in Amsterdam. Tickets at the capital's largest hall, the Ziggo Dome, cost as much as 2,700 euros. The media estimate that the former U.S. president could have earned as much as one million euros.more

On May 11, Covid-19 vaccination requirements for foreign travelers, federal employees and health care workers will cease, the White House announced yesterday. On the same day, the pandemic state of emergency will expire.more

Newark Airport, New Jersey, USA, overtook New York's John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK) in terms of the number of passenger connections to Europe. Only Spain (5) and Italy (4) have more destinations from Newark than Poland (three).more

Ukrainian intelligence had planned attacks on targets in Russia, including Moscow on February 24, the anniversary of the start of full-scale aggression by the Russian army, but postponed them at the request of the US, the Washington Post reported, citing secret US documents that recently leaked online.more

‘Letters to Trump’ also includes private correspondence with former presidents including Barack Obama, George W Bush and Richard Nixon.more

According to the latest NBC News poll, most Americans do not want Donald Trump and Joe Biden to run in the 2024 presidential election. In the case of the Republican, criminal charges are an important argument, and the Democrat's age.more

France and the Netherlands today launched operations to evacuate their citizens and diplomatic personnel from Sudan, where fighting has been ongoing for days, the foreign ministries in Paris and The Hague said. Staff at the U.S. embassy in the Sudanese capital Khartoum were evacuated last night.more

Yesterday's launch of Starship was a "good first step", even though the rocket exploded in the air, NASA chief Bill Nelson told CNN. He estimated that the fiasco would not delay the agency's plans to land on the moon with a SpaceX ship. The head of the company Elon Musk announced another attempt in a few months.more

President Joe Biden and his team prepare to announce the re-election campaign for the 2024 presidential election. They may officially announce it next week.more

'We have not found any extraterrestrial activity or technology so far in the course of our investigations,' Dr Sean Kirkpatrick, head of the Pentagon-appointed team to investigate unexplained aerial phenomena (UAP), declared in the Senate yesterday. 650 such phenomena have been recorded so far, he said, of which several per cent betray advanced technical capabilities and may originate from abroad.more

US President Joe Biden's policy is supported by 39 percent. Americans, Reuters reports today, presenting a survey conducted by Ipsos. In March, this indicator was 42 percent, in mid-2022 - 36 percent. and it was the lowest support for Biden during his presidency.more