❗️Day Six of rescue operations in Surfside, Florida: 11 people dead and 150 people unaccounted for. Israel will deploy additional personnel to assist rescue efforts at collapsed building.

President Biden has told reporters he will visit the site of the deadly condo building collapse in Surfside “hopefully as early as Thursday”.

❗️Serena Williams retires in Wimbledon first round after injury

🇦🇫 Afghanistan may collapse into civil war after the full US military withdrawal is completed, commanding General Austin Miller said on Tuesday.

🗣“Civil war is certainly a path that can be visualized,” Miller, a four-star general, said at a rare press conference in Kabul at the current US and NATO forces headquarters. “That should be a concern for the world.”

Who is the "strongest candidate to defeat Cuomo"?

New York GOP leaders snubbed Andrew Giuliani, and supported Rep. Lee Zeldin for the upcoming vote to run against Andrew Cuomo.

With 85% of the New York Republican State committee backing the 41-year-old lawmaker, Zeldin is now the "presumptive nominee." A former Westchester County lawmaker received 5% of the committee vote, while Andrew Giuliani received no votes.

Looks like the 'politics in his DNA' didn't help him this time

🤔 Only Democratic first ladies make the cover of Vogue?

The US president's wife, Jill Biden, appeared on a Vogue cover on Tuesday, anointed by the magazine as "A First Lady for All of Us", although a former FLOTUS, Melania Trump, was never on the cover.

Vogue has a long history of featuring first ladies on its covers, as it did with Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, Laura Bush, Nancy Reagan, Jacqueline Kennedy and many others. But Melania Trump seemed to be ignored by the high-profile magazines despite having been a professional model.

❗️Death toll from Florida building collapse rises to 12, mayor reveals

🔍 "It’s totally believable"

Donald Trump backed Tucker Carlson's claim of being spied on by the Biden administration for "political reasons"

The former US president added that when he was still allowed to post on Twitter, his presidential campaign was also “targeted by the deep state”.

❗️NSA says Tucker Carlson's allegations he is agency target 'untrue'

🇪🇹🇪🇷 State Department: the US sees Ethiopia's ceasefire announcement in Tigray as a potential positive development, if it leads to changes on the ground "to end the conflict, stop the atrocities, and allow unhindered humanitarian assistance."

"We are closely monitoring developments. We call on all parties to commit to an immediate, indefinite, negotiated ceasefire, so as to end the violence, restore stability to Tigray, and create a context for an inclusive dialogue that preserves the unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Ethiopian state," State Department spokesperson Price said on Tuesday.

The US also urges Ethiopian authorities to immediately restore telecommunication services in Tigray.

🇲🇽 Donald Trump to join Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott on a Wednesday visit to the US-Mexico border to call attention to the migrant crisis in the region.

🗣 "Securing the border is not just important to Texas - it is vital to America," Abbott said in a statement on Tuesday. "Tomorrow President Trump will join me and law enforcement officials for a border security briefing in Weslaco [Texas]."

Not so "squeaky-clean"?

Bill Gates reportedly loved parties, engaged in sexual affairs with employees and yelled at staffers, apart from allegations that he made "numerous visits" to the house of the late sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein.

"A person like Bill Gates thinks the usual rules of behavior don't apply to him," Maria Klawe, a former Microsoft board member, said.

Are those only rumors and speculation, or does the billionaire Microsoft founder hide a different side?

#BREAKING | 'There is no international conspiracy': Putin condemns COVID-19 pandemic deniers

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#URGENT | US reportedly calls on EU to postpone introduction of digital tax plan

Check out our brief summary of some of the latest news:

▪️The New York City mayoral primary descended into chaos after 135,000 pre-election test ballots had to be counted because they were not properly purged from the system.

▪️The Pentagon is "still assessing the full scope of the damage" after a rocket attack on a US base in Syria, according tom State Department spokesman Kirby.

▪️Rudi Giuliani has become the subject of another DoJ inquiry into whether he lobbied interests in Turkey.

🖥 US Actor William Shatner, who played James Tiberius Kirk in the cult science fiction series Star Trek, has become the new host at RT America.

His show "I Don't Understand" is launching on 12 July 2021, the RT website reported on Wednesday.

The show will look for answers to questions about space and the structure of the Universe: what dark matter is, what happened before the Big Bang, whether there is any need to worry about space debris, and so on.