🛩️ A plane crash in Nepal killed at least 18 people and injured the pilot who reportedly survived.
👽 Experts say that they found mummies in Peru that are not human.
💻 Delta is still suffering the consequences of last week's software outage and now the Department of Transportation has opened an investigation into the airlines for failing to get back up and running on a timely manner.
🤦🏻♂️ Federal agents say that they rented hotels for migrants to clear them out and had to braid the hair of the children that remained when Vice President Kamala Harris made her only trip to the southern border.
🇳🇬 Nigeria has fined Meta $220 million fine for "breaching local data protection and privacy laws."
🔥 Scientists say that Monday was the "hottest day on record." Key words: On record. Scientists know of at least two periods of global warming in history, notably the Roman climactic optimum which exceeded an increase of 2 degrees C. It was notably not human caused and scientists don't know if the current warm periods are either.
🏊🏼 Chinese swimmers are drug tested four times more than their U.S. counterparts. Why?
📺 President Biden will address the nation tonight regarding his resignation of his re-election campaign.
⛷️ Salt Lake City was awarded to host the Winter Olympics in 2034.
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Lead: Netanyahu Addresses U.S. Congress… Why Now?
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address a joint session of Congress today and reportedly hedge his bets by meeting with President Biden and former President Trump. He is also reported to be trying to schedule a meeting with Vice President Harris when her campaign schedule allows.
The Vice President will not attend the address today. House Speaker Mike Johnson threatened to arrest Democratic lawmakers if they protest the speech but now Republican Representative Thomas Massie says that he won't come either because he calls the speech "political theater on behalf of the State Department" and he won't be used as a prop.
This speech is fraught, to say the least. On Tuesday night, protestors reportedly disrupted a state dinner to protest Netanyahu and Mossad by scattering "mealworms and maggots on the dining tables and unleashed crickets across several floors. The fire alarms were activated for more than half an hour, resulting in significant disorder and disrupting preparations ahead of Netanyahu's scheduled address to Congress."
Netanyahu is facing Israeli protestors too. The families of hostages in Gaza say that he is sabotaging peace deals that would bring their loved ones home. They traveled to Washington to have their message heard. According to Responsible Statescraft:
“It is time now to end this war, to end our suffering, and along the way, to end the suffering of millions in Gaza,” said Jonathan Dekel-Chen, the father of one of the hostages, who lives in Israel but refused to travel with Netanyahu . “I implore Democrats and Republicans to do all that you can to let our Prime Minister know that the U.S. knows that the time is now.”
We are being warmed up to the idea of a military draft by NATO. The military organization have set a goal of adding 300,000 soldiers in the next month and another half a million in six months.
Why do they need that? For a war with…Russia? Iran? China? NATO repeatedly told us that they are a defensive operation during their Washington D.C. summit this month but they sure to seem hellbent on offensive operations in conflicts they are not a party to.
Most NATO countries do not practice a draft but that is changing. Latvia revived its draft practices, Norway, the UK and Germany have proposed doing the same. How long before this becomes a prerequisite to a NATO membership?
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A New Covid Variant in Greece (yes that's a man wearing a mask on a beach)
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Experts say that there is a new FLiRT Covid variant in Greece.
Greece’s National Public Health Organization, EODY, reported "669 new Covid patients admitted from July 8 to 14- a 44% increase in the weekly average compared to four weeks ago." They say that this has resulted in 26 Covid deaths but we never do know if these are deaths FROM Covid or deaths of people WITH Covid.
Hospitals in Athens reintroduced mask mandates because I guess they don't study the data on masking…
Yellowstone is trending because a hydrothermal explosion damaged part of the national park on Tuesday.
Jimmy Carter is trending because of rumors of his death but his doctor says that the rumors are false and the former president is still alive.
Charlotte Dujardin is trending because she withdrew from the British equestrian Olympic team after video surfaced of her "engaging in conduct contrary to the principles of horse welfare." The video was two years old but she apologized for what she says was an error of judgement.
News By The Numbers
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116. That is how many times the f-word is said in the new "Deadpool & Wolverine" film, released on Friday.
$376 million. That is how much a group of lenders paid to buy the Red Lobster restaurant chains.
Vatican Tells Zelensky To Do 10 Hail Marys And Try Again
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Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky told the Vatican that he wants the war to end by the end of the year but the Vatican says that his peace plan is still insufficient.
The Vatican's Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, said this about Zelensky's so-called "plan":
"It seems to me that we are still far away from the resolution [of the conflict]. We have President Zelensky’s peace proposal, which the Holy See supported immediately, particularly in the sphere of humanitarian issues. It represents an attempt to find peace, although it has gaps in the sense of not involving Russia. This plan can help, but it is not sufficient. I hope other formulae can be found to pave the way for the talks."
This is because Zelensky's plan would require Russia to withdraw from the Donbas regions and Crimea, all of which voted to join Russia because Ukraine had tortured and attacked those regions since 2014. That's not a peace plan. That's a fantasy and Russia continues to say as much.
Russia says that they are not going to participate in another peace summit without more concessions because “nobody trusts [Zelensky].” Nobody should.
This newsletter is written and researched by Natali Morris. Please feel free to reach Natali at [email protected] for any editorial feedback.
