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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a single booster dose of Pfizer and BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine in children 5-11 years of age. The decision has yet to be approved by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).more

The US Congress began public hearings about UFOs for the first time in more than half a century. There were opinions among congressmen that this is a real matter, and one of the hypotheses discussed indicates the possibility of Russia or China using modern technologies in the American airspace.more

A chemical engineer has been sentenced to 14 years in prison over what prosecutors say was a scheme to steal trade secrets about materials used in cans for soda and other drinks to benefit the Chinese government and a Chinese company.more

UK and US defence ministers Ben Wallace and Lloyd Austin discussed further steps to support Ukraine struggling with Russian aggression, including the transfer of military aid to the country, the UK defence ministry said yesterday.more

Elon Musk has halted his purchase of Twitter, while announcing that he is waiting for details to confirm calculations that spam, or fake accounts, actually account for less than 5 per cent of the service's users.more

The US Ministry of Defense is in talks about the purchase of 10 new types of anti-tank drones - the kamikaze Switchblade 600, which may be handed over to Ukraine as part of a $ 300 million weapons package, Bloomberg reported.more

The US daily Washington Post announced on its website yesterday that it would open a new bureau in Kiev to provide more accurate coverage of the ongoing war with Russia in Ukraine.more

In 2020, 79 per cent of homicides and 53 per cent of suicides in the US were committed with firearms, while the number of homicides involving such weapons was the highest since 1994. - according to Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data released yesterday.more

The tech giant on May 10 announced that the fashionable - and for some even iconic - mobile device that debuted 21 years ago is disappearing from the market. The iPod will only be available while supplies last.more

The Jersey City Spatial Planning Council approved a project yesterday that restricts patriotic participants' access to the Katyn Memorial. The Polish community abroad announces actions that will not allow any difficulties.more

Microsoft co-founder, billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates announced on Twitter yesterday that he was infected with a coronavirus.more

Neither the Russians nor the Ukrainians are winning, said General Scott Berrier, the head of the US Military Intelligence Agency (DIA) in the US Senate. He added that although the war is at an impasse, Ukraine has greater opportunities to generate combat force, and the Russians are unable to make a breakthrough without announcing mobilization.more

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has launched the largest international tourism campaign the city has ever seen to attract global visitors back to London. more

In his Victory Day speech, Vladimir Putin presented a revisionist version of history and disinformation, and his accusations blaming the US for aggression against Ukraine are absurd, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.more

The Polish American Congress in the state of New Jersey calls for opposition to plans to fence off the Katyn Memorial with an earth embankment from the large square in Jersey City on which the monument stands. According to the representatives of the Polish community, the project will make it difficult to organize mass celebrations there and is intended to annoy Poles.more

Elon Musk's SpaceX company's Crew Dragon capsule returned today after a six-month mission in space, launching in the Gulf of Mexico. Three American astronauts from NASA were on board the capsule, while the European Space Agency (ESA) was represented by an astronaut from Germany.more

A court administrator in Cook County, in the US state of Illinois, Margaret Ptaszynska Kulujian received the prestigious Liberty Bell award from the Chicago Bar Association yesterday. This is an award given by lawyers for outstanding public service to non-lawyers.more

32,000 people, including Poles, participated in America's largest bicycle rally, which passed through all five boroughs of New York City yesterday. There were touches of the war in Ukraine.more

The FBI searched emails, texts and other electronic communications of as many as 3.4 million U.S. residents without a warrant over a year, the nation’s top spy chief said in a report.more

US President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser, Dr Anthony Fauci, has been optimistic about the battle against Covid-19, even stating in an interview that the US has already emerged from the pandemic.more

We are accelerating our efforts to support Ukraine. Washington can transfer weapons to Kiev within 72 hours of such a request, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken declared yesterday during an appearance before the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee.more

Employees of the US diplomatic mission in Ukraine, who moved to Poland because of Russia's invasion, went to Lviv yesterday, the US State Department reported. It stressed that this is the beginning of the return of US diplomats to Ukraine. At the same time, the support of the American public for armed assistance to Ukraine is growing.more

"From a counterintelligence point of view, China is the greatest threat to the US," said FBI director Christopher Wray. He stressed that Chinese cyber spies have stolen more data from the US than hackers from other countries combined.more

A first-instance court in China has sentenced US citizen Shadeed Abdulmateen to death for the murder of his former partner, a 21-year-old Chinese woman named Chen, state-run Chinese media reported today.more

Representatives of Canada, the US, the UK, Ukraine and the European Union demonstratively left the meeting room at yesterday's G20 meeting in Washington during a speech by the Russians.more