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South Korea is using sniffing dogs to screen people returning from the Paris Olympics for bed bugs.
Starbucks has reportedly hired Chipotle CEO Brian Niccol to replace CEO Laxman Narasimhan.

Only in America can you get a cotton candy burrito but you probably shouldn’t.
Google had an outage in some parts of the world early Monday but appears to be back up and running.

Meet Apollo, a TikTok star that also happens to be a parrot.
Wednesday saw a stock market comeback that wasn’t. Stocks fell again.

X is suing advertiser groups for antitrust violations.
More than 100 protests will continue in the U.K. to contest the two-tier justice system.
Russia says that Ukraine is attacking civilians in the Kursk Region of Russia.

The Kamala Harris coconut dance is a new TikTok trend.
Wikipedia has updated the entry for Kamala Harris’ father.
At least five U.S. troops were injured in a rocket attack on a U.S. base in Iraq.

Hurricane Debby made landfall as a Category 1 storm in Florida today.
Bulgaria will hold a snap election after three parties failed to gain a majority support.

A new TikTok trend is showing off ones “ugly privilege.”
The Biden administration has proposed rules for flying that would require airlines to sit children next to their parents.

Australia’s inflation is up to 3.8%. It was 3.6% at the beginning of the year.
The U.S. Federal Reserve will announce possible interest rate cuts today.

This photo of Brazilian Olympic surfer Gabriel Medina has won the Internet this week.
There is an outbreak of legionnaires disease in Australia with at least 33 cases.

McDonald’s had its first drop in global sales since 2020 by 1%.
Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro was re-elected but the opposition has not conceded.