🤬 Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is standing by her expletive-laden attack on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas after she yelled "F--- Clarence Thomas’" at a Pride event in the city over the weekend.

🗣 The Democrat took to Twitter Monday evening to defend her use of obscene language after the video of her at the Pride event went viral. Lightfoot tweeted a picture of herself at the event pointing to a person in the audience wearing a T-shirt that read "F--- Clarence Thomas." Lightfoot simply captioned the picture, "I said what I said."

📌 Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the city will continue working to support women from out of state who are seeking legal abortions and took aim at Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for a concurring opinion in which he urged colleagues to overturn various cases, including the landmark ruling establishing same-sex marriage.

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😧 At least 46 people are dead after being left in a tractor trailer on the southwest side of San Antonio, Texas. Sixteen other individuals were transported to hospitals in the area, according to KSAT reporter Dillon Collier.

👮‍♂️ Police say there were around 100 people in the trailer, found in the late afternoon on Monday. The individuals have been described as migrants. One local reporter called it a possible human smuggling case.

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🌎 A study has found the number of hurricanes has decreased in every ocean basin, except for one, over the past century.

🌀 The study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, found that the annual number of global hurricanes, typhoons and tropical storms — or tropical cyclones, more generally, has declined by roughly 13% as the planet has warmed during the 20th century.

👨‍🔬 Scientists found that the number of storms increased only in the North Atlantic Ocean.

📌 The lead researcher said the drop in frequency doesn’t mean storms are becoming less of a threat, saying while there may be fewer tropical cyclones in the future, it is likely they will be more intense.

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❗️After authorities found an 18-wheeler that carried up to 100 individuals abandoned in San Antonio, including at least 46 individuals who were deceased, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott blamed President Joe Biden and his immigration policies.

💬In a tweet, Abbott said Monday evening's discovery rests squarely on Biden. "At Least 42 People Found Dead Inside Truck Carrying Migrants In Texas. These deaths are on Biden," Abbott said, before officials raised the death count to at least 46.

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💉 The demand for monkeypox vaccines is outstripping the supply in New York City and Washington, DC, two of the first cities in the US to offer an inoculation against the virus.

🏥 The DC Department of Health announced that 300 appointments for the monkeypox vaccine would be available on Tuesday and Thursday, but those spots were already booked up by noon on Monday.

🍏 New York City also started offering the Jynneos vaccine at the Chelsea Sexual Health Clinic but all the appointments through Monday were filled.

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🤭 President Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Monday stepped in to interrupt French President Emmanuel Macron to break some bad news to Biden — with journalists only feet away — about attempts to get Arab nations to produce more oil to lower record gas prices.

“Careful. Maybe we should just step inside … because of the cameras,” Sullivan said, motioning to journalists covering the G7 summit in Germany.

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❗️ Fire at mall in Kremenchug occur due to detonation of western ammunition stored nearby: Russian MoD

❗️ Mall that caught fire in Kremenchug was non-functional, Russian MoD says

🧐 Joe Biden called Hunter Biden in late 2018 after reading a New York Times story detailing his son’s shady business dealings with a Chinese firm, CEFC China Energy, according to a voicemail cited by the Daily Mail.

🇨🇳 The Times' article had pointed out that the oil giant’s chairman, Ye Jianming, had been arrested, while Patrick Ho, who ran its nonprofit wing, had been convicted of bribery.

💬 “Hey pal, it’s Dad. It’s 8:15 on Wednesday night. If you get a chance just give me a call. Nothing urgent. I just wanted to talk to you,” said Joe Biden in the voicemail left on Hunter Biden's iPhone XS on 12 December, 2018, according to the report.

The audio had been discovered on a cell phone backup on his notorious ‘laptop from Hell’, discarded at a Delaware computer repair store in April 2019.

The older Biden proceeds to say in the voicemail:

💬 “I thought the article released online, it’s going to be printed tomorrow in the Times, was good… I think you’re clear. And anyway if you get a chance give me a call, I love you.”

🤔 This appears to be in stark contrast to President Biden’s vehement denial that he had any knowledge of his son’s murky business transactions.

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⚡️ The Russian MoD’s latest statements on the Ukraine crisis:

▪️ As a result of the strikes of the Russian Aerospace Forces on the deployment point of the Nazi formation "Azov" in Kharkov and one of the battalions of the 92nd motorized infantry brigade in Kharkov region, more than 100 Ukrainian military personnel, foreign mercenaries and up to 15 units of armored and automotive equipment were destroyed;

▪️ Recruits who arrived to resupply the 97th battalion of the 60th infantry brigade were hit by friendly fire;

▪️ In the 28th mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, foreign mercenaries opened fire on their own reconnaissance group; as a result, four servicemen died on the spot, and three were injured;

▪️ The Russian Aerospace Forces launched a strike with high-precision weapons on hangars with weapons and ammunition received from the United States and European countries in the area of the Kremenchug road vehicle plant.

▪️ As a result, weapons and ammunition of Western production, concentrated in the storage area for further shipment to the Ukrainian troops in the Donbass, were hit.

▪️ The detonation of stored ammunition for Western weapons caused a fire in a non-functioning shopping center located next to the plant.

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⚡️ Russia put Biden's wife and daughter on its "black list" - Russian Foreign Ministry

⚡️ Russia's MFA expands its American black list by another 25 people

📹 Russia's MoD has published footage showing the combat work of Ka-52 Alligators helicopters firing at Ukrainian strongholds and equipment.

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❗️Biden has left the G7 summit in Bavaria earlier than planned. The reason is “foggy conditions, low clouds and a chance of thunderstorms,” the White House announced.

📌 WATCH LIVE: NATO chief, Spanish PM hold presser ahead of Madrid summit

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❗Ukrainian military have been using data provided to NATO by private Western satellite operators, including US space company Maxar Technologies, which closely cooperates with Pentagon, Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin told Sputnik.

No military or other aircraft were reported on the radar