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Ms Harris hopes to shore up her campaign’s standing across the upper Midwest, a critical region in presidential politics.

The RFU has not "sold out" by renaming Twickenham the Allianz Stadium in a sponsorship deal worth more than a £100m, says the organisation's chief executive Bill Sweeney.

Russia is using online disinformation to spread false information about the 2024 Olympics and portraying Paris as a crime-ridden cesspool

Belarusian activist Andrey Stryzhak said on August 6 that noted physician Uladzimer Martau, who is wanted in Minsk on extremism charges, has fled to Lithuania.

Though Bill O'Reilly acknowledges Trump's recent actions are hurting his campaign, he still prefers him to Kamala Harris.

The regional bloc has shifted its focus to serve as a geopolitical counterweight to Western institutions led by the U.S., while becoming ambivalent to the SCO’s own core principles.

Marathon Petroleum (NYSE: MPC) booked higher-than-expected earnings for the second quarter amid higher processing volumes that partly offset weak refining margins. The U.S. refining giant reported on Tuesday an adjusted net income of $1.4 billion, or $4.12 per diluted share, for the second quarter. This beat by a wide margin the $3.09 EPS consensus analyst estimate compiled by The Wall Street Journal. Marathon Petroleum’s net income slumped to $1.5 billion for the second quarter, down from $2.2 billion for the second quarter of 2023. Читать дальше...

Vijay Varma apologises after obituary for Darlings Hamza worries fans

The battle for third place in the WBSC/KONAMI Women's Baseball World Ranking is tight, with only 14 points separating four teams from third to sixth.

Kamala Harris has chosen her running mate, and it’s Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.

Bangladesh’s president dissolved parliament on Tuesday, paving the way for the formation of an interim government, a day after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the country following a violent crackdown on a student-led uprising.

NASA announced the first detection of possible biosignatures in a rock on the surface of Mars

West Ham United have already completed the signing of Germany international striker Niclas Fullkrug. The Hammers needed a new striker and they have found the right player in Fullkrug, who scored 15 goals for Borussia Dortmund last season in the Bundesliga and the Champions League combined. The attacker was picked in the Germany squad for […]

Air India announced it will begin operating evening flights on the Delhi-Dhaka-Delhi route starting August 6, 2024. Due to the current situation in Dhaka, the airline is offering a one-time waiver for rescheduling to passengers with bookings on flights to and from Dhaka between August 4 and 7, 2024.

Who could have watched the Olympics over the past two weeks and not looked within oneself and found oneself wanting?

Pollution in Limassol’s waters is rampant, a team of winter swimmers from the city claimed on Tuesday, calling on the government to enter a public dialogue on the matter. The letter signed by the Winter Swimmers and Friends ‘Akti Olymbion’ accused “major business interests of taking advantage of the state’s failure to act.” Chairwoman Erma […]

1. Elon Musk to completely shut down X’s San Francisco headquarters  The Independent
2. X to Close Flagship San Francisco Office  The New York Times
3. 'No choice' but to shut X San Francisco office - Musk  BBC
4. Elon Musk says ‘no choice’ but for X to shut San Francisco HQ  The Guardian
5. X officially kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate workers to South Bay  The San Francisco Standard

Controversial billionaire has already moved SpaceX and Tesla headquarters to Texas

1. Government creates new prison places for rioters  BBC.com
2. No end to UK protests as government expands jail capacity  Reuters UK
3. ‘Prison place waiting’ for far-right rioters, says justice minister  The Guardian
4. Can our prisons take these thugs?  The Spectator
5. Mass imprisonment of rioters will ‘destabilise’ England’s jail system, warns prison governors’ group  Financial Times

Secretaries of state from five states called on Elon Musk to alter the artificial intelligence chatbot on X, Grok, after it gave out false election information to users around the country.

1. Lawyers urge Starmer to ensure safety of advice centres over far-right threat  The Guardian
2. UK riots latest: 30 new rallies on police radar and lawyers' offices threatened, sources say  Sky News
3. Dozens of far-right rallies set to target immigration centres, lawyers’ offices and charities across country  The Independent
4. Far right use arson manual to plot attacks on lawyers  The Times
5. Extremists planning riots denied the Holocaust and praised Hitler  The Jewish... Читать дальше...

Sabrina Carpenter is one of the undisputed biggest stars of the summer with the back-to-back hits of “Espresso” and “Please Please Please” ahead of her August 23 album Short N’ Sweet. But Sabrina Summer could have looked very different if she hadn’t fought for her own vision. “I was completely alone in wanting to release ‘Espresso.’ Not so much from my immediate team. But when it came to ‘the powers above,’”—she air-quotes in a new profile for Variety—“there was a lot of questioning behind whether it made sense. Читать дальше...

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