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Unbiased headline news – Russian officials stated they were repelling Ukrainian cross-border raids in a southwestern province for a second consecutive day, while Kyiv officials remained silent about the operation’s extent. Russian President Vladimir Putin labeled the incursion into the south-western Kursk region as a “large-scale provocation” and mentioned plans to meet with top defense and security officials to address the situation. The regional head urged residents to donate blood due to the intense fighting. — Amid strategic advances by China and North Korea in the Indo-Pacific region, Japan and Italy are bolstering their military cooperation to enhance their defensive capabilities. Japan and Italy are currently in the second day of a three-day joint exercise called Rising Sun 24, aimed at improving defensive capabilities as China and North Korea increase their tactical presence in the area. The exercise features four F-35A fighters from Japan and another four from Italy, along with four Eurofighters. Two KC-767 refueling aircraft are also part of the exercise. — Elon Musk has confirmed that the headquarters of his social media company X is relocating from San Francisco, citing the business environment challenges in the California city. “It is impossible to operate in San Francisco if you’re processing payments,” he stated, without further explanation. This confirmation follows a New York Times report that X will close its San Francisco office over the next few weeks, with employees moving to existing offices in San Jose, California. — The number of women obtaining abortions in the U.S. rose in the first three months of 2024 compared to the period before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, according to a report released Wednesday. A key reason for the increase is that some Democratic-controlled states have enacted laws protecting doctors who use telemedicine to see patients in states with abortion bans, the WeCount report for the Society of Family Planning, which supports abortion access, found. — At least one person was killed and eight others remained trapped Wednesday after a hotel partially collapsed near the Mosel River in western Germany, police reported. Police said they believed 14 people were inside the hotel in the winemaking town of Kroev at the time of the collapse. Five people escaped unharmed, while the other nine were buried beneath the rubble, police said. One person had been confirmed dead but their body had yet to be recovered. — The Environmental Protection Agency issued a ban on a weedkiller, stating it poses a threat to the health of farmworkers, pregnant women, and unborn babies. The pesticide, known as DCPA or Dacthal, is used in farming to control plants, vegetables, and fruits, commonly on staples like broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, and onions. The weedkiller could affect fetal thyroid hormone levels, the agency stated. — A 5-year-old boy with autism was rescued from a Florida pond after he wandered away from his home Tuesday evening, authorities reported. The child, whose name was not released, went missing from his home in Deltona around 7:30 p.m. ET, according to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office. He triggered an alarm after escaping through a second-story door, the sheriff’s office stated. After the rescue, the boy was medically cleared and returned to his family, the sheriff’s office said. — Taylor Swift’s three concerts in Vienna this week were canceled after two suspects were arrested for allegedly plotting a terror attack, authorities announced. “We have no choice but to cancel the three scheduled shows for everyone’s safety,” stated a message from Barracuda Music. “All tickets will be automatically refunded.” The cancellation followed the arrest of a 19-year-old Austrian citizen on Wednesday morning and a second suspect in the afternoon. —

Hamas, the Palestinian militant group, announced Tuesday that Yahya Sinwar, its top official in Gaza and mastermind of the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, has been selected as its new leader. Sinwar’s selection, a secretive figure who leads Hamas’ hardliners and maintains close ties to Iran, marks a defiant move. Sinwar tops Israel’s kill list as it aims to dismantle Hamas and its leadership following the October attack in which militants killed 1,200 people in southern Israel and captured about 250 hostages. — A Pakistani national with alleged ties to Iran has been arrested and charged with plotting a murder-for-hire scheme targeting U.S. government officials and politicians, according to charging documents unsealed Tuesday. The individual, 46-year-old Asif Merchant, is accused of planning to assassinate current and former government officials across the political spectrum, including former President and GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, according to multiple sources familiar with the investigation. — Renewed concerns about the U.S. economy could significantly impact Americans beyond this week’s stock market free fall. Experts state that the recent decline in financial markets, driven by growing evidence of economic slowdown, increases the likelihood that the Federal Reserve will aggressively ease monetary policy starting next month to prevent a severe downturn. Wall Street analysts now predict a series of interest rate cuts beginning in September and continuing into 2025. — The Treasury and State Department announced sanctions on the Paraguayan tobacco company Tabacalera del Este S.A. for providing financial support to former Paraguayan President Horacio Manuel Cartes Jara, who had been previously blacklisted by the United States. Cartes previously owned, directly or indirectly, a 50% interest in the tobacco company, known as Tabesa. U.S. officials reported that the company has made payments and plans to continue paying him “millions of dollars,” despite sanctions against him. — Nine people, including six children, died after a vehicle overturned in a Florida canal, authorities reported. The incident occurred Monday evening in Palm Beach County. At approximately 7:30 p.m., authorities received calls about a car in a canal near Belle Glade. First responders found a vehicle upside down with only the wheels visible, according to Palm Beach County Fire Rescue Capt. Tom Reyes. — A man held responsible for his 5-year-old grandson’s death has pleaded no contest to violating Michigan’s new gun storage law, one of the first significant convictions since the law was implemented earlier this year. Prosecutors charged former Waupun Correctional Institute Warden Randall Hepp with felony misconduct in office in June, related to the deaths of an inmate from a stroke in October and another inmate from malnutrition and dehydration in February. Hepp pleaded not guilty during an arraignment in Dodge County Circuit Court. — The former warden of a maximum-security Wisconsin prison, where multiple inmates have died over the past year, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a misconduct charge. Five inmates have died at Waupun Correctional Institution since June 2023. The latest, Christopher McDonald, was found dead at the facility Monday morning, according to the Dodge County Sheriff’s Office. Investigators believe McDonald killed himself. Online court records show a judge sentenced him to two 999-year sentences in 1993 for being a party to homicide. — Elon Musk’s social media platform X has sued a group of advertisers, claiming that a “massive advertiser boycott” deprived the company of billions of dollars in revenue and violated antitrust laws. The company, formerly known as Twitter, filed the lawsuit Tuesday in a federal court in Texas against the World Federation of Advertisers and member companies Unilever, Mars, CVS Health, and Orsted. It accused the advertising group’s brand safety initiative of helping to coordinate a pause in advertising after Musk acquired Twitter.

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Unbiased headline news – Secretary of State Antony Blinken, calling it a “critical moment,” urged parties in the Middle East to work towards easing tensions. Concerns of a broader regional conflict are rising after last week’s killings of a senior Hezbollah commander in Lebanon and Hamas’ top political leader in Iran. “We are engaged in intense diplomacy, pretty much round-the-clock. Escalation is not in anyone’s interests,” Blinken said at a signing ceremony with his Australian counterpart. — The U.N. announced it has dismissed nine staff members from its agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, after an internal probe suggested they may have been involved in the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack against Israel. The U.N. secretary-general’s office disclosed the decision in a brief statement to journalists on Monday. It did not detail the UNRWA staffers’ alleged roles in the attack. The nine included seven employees previously terminated over the allegations. — Gunmen in Mexico shot and killed a crime reporter in the central state of Guanajuato. Alejandro Martínez Noguez died in Celaya after being attacked while in his car. He survived a similar attack in 2022, the BBC reported. At the time of his death, he was under police protection, and the officers ineffectively returned fire at the attackers. Martinez was known by the nickname “El Hijo del Llanero Solitito,” which translates to “The Son of the Lone Ranger” in English. — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas did not disclose travel aboard a private jet provided by Republican megadonor Harlan Crow in 2010, the Democratic chairman of the Senate Finance Committee revealed in a letter on Monday. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon cited international flight records from U.S. Customs and Border Protection showing that Thomas and his wife Ginni flew from Hawaii to New Zealand on Crow’s private jet in November 2010 and returned a week later. — Google violated U.S. antitrust laws in maintaining a monopoly over the online search business, a federal judge ruled. D.C. District judge Amit Mehta declared Google violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act, finding the company illegally secured its dominance in the search market by paying billions of dollars to smartphone carriers like Apple to make Google the default search engine on their phones — effectively preventing any rival businesses from competing. — Hurricane Debby brought more than powerful winds and storm surge to Florida; packages of cocaine worth over $1 million also made landfall, officials said, marking the latest in a string of recent drug discoveries along Florida shores. Debby, which hit the state as a Category 1 hurricane but has since been downgraded to a tropical storm, washed the drugs ashore in the Florida Keys, U.S. Border Patrol acting chief patrol Agent Samuel Briggs II wrote on social media. Hurricane Debby blew 25 packages of cocaine (70 lbs.) onto a beach in the Florida Keys. — Recreational marijuana sales began across Ohio on Tuesday as the state issued its first operating certificates. Nearly 100 medical marijuana dispensaries began sales immediately, though it’s unclear how many were ready to open, the Division of Cannabis Control said. Some were ready right away, while others faced potential delays due to staffing or inventory issues. The first round of operating certificates went to 98 locations, according to the Division of Cannabis Control. — Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson’s Los Angeles home was recently burglarized, law enforcement officials reported. The incident, which occurred a few weeks ago but only came to light Monday, was the latest in a series of home burglaries in Southern California. The burglars targeted the celebrity couple’s guest house but did not enter the main house. No one was home at the time, and it is not believed they were specifically targeted, according to officials.

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Unbiased headline news – Ukraine has destroyed a Russian submarine and struck a Russian airfield, amid a wave of long-range attacks on Russian targets, officials reported. Russia claimed that Ukrainian drones also targeted an apartment building, resulting in one fatality. The increase in attacks since July coincides with Ukraine’s push for allies to permit the use of long-range missiles against Russia. Western allies, especially the U.S., have so far been hesitant, concerned about potential escalation from Moscow. — Western nations including Italy, Britain, France, and the United States have urged their citizens in Lebanon to depart due to rising tensions. Israel has been conducting strikes on Lebanon for months to target Hezbollah, an armed political group formed to resist Israeli occupation in the 1980s. Thousands of Lebanese civilians near the border have been displaced. After enduring a civil war in Lebanon, Hezbollah continues to oppose Israeli actions in the region. — The assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh, who played a central role in Gaza ceasefire efforts, has “ignited the fire of resistance,” according to a statement from the Palestinian militia, potentially dimming hopes for an end to Israel’s conflict. Hamas leaders held urgent meetings following Haniyeh’s assassination and agreed on several points, including that his death was a significant loss for the Palestinian people and “free people worldwide.” — With support from Democrats, increased engagement from younger and Black voters, and women believing she’d better represent their interests, Vice President Kamala Harris has shifted the 2024 presidential race. She now has a 1-point lead nationally, a position President Biden never held (he was down by 5 points when he exited the race). Harris and former President Donald Trump are tied in key battleground states. Looking ahead, voters emphasize the importance of the coming weeks. — A 5-year-old boy died and another child was injured when a bounce house they were playing in was lifted 15 to 20 feet by the wind during a baseball game Friday night, officials in Maryland stated. The bounce house was situated in the right field stands of Regency Furniture Stadium in Waldorf, Maryland, during a game between the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs and the York Revolution of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. A second child sustained non-life-threatening injuries and was airlifted to a hospital, officials reported. — A teenage girl, nine months pregnant, and an 18-year-old man were hospitalized Friday night after their tent was struck by lightning in Indiana, officials said. The unidentified victims were inside their tent at their residence in Country Squire Lakes, Indiana, when the lightning strike occurred, according to the Jennings County Sheriff’s Office on Saturday. First responders transported the pair to a hospital where they were listed in serious but stable condition. — U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer strongly condemned an attack Sunday on a hotel housing asylum seekers, which resulted in injuries to at least 10 police officers. The Prime Minister denounced the attack as “far-right thuggery,” as additional violence erupted across the country following a stabbing rampage at a dance class that left three girls dead and many others injured. In a statement from 10 Downing Street, the prime minister vowed that authorities would “do whatever it takes to bring these thugs to justice” and assured that justice would be swift. — Billionaire investor Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has reduced its stake in Apple by nearly 50%, according to financial documents filed Saturday after technology stocks suffered a downturn. The value of Berkshire Hathaway’s Apple holdings fell from $174 billion in December 2023 to $84 billion in June, as indicated in Berkshire’s second-quarter earnings report. The number of shares held by the Omaha-based conglomerate decreased from 790 million to 400 million.