😜🎆The UK’s Embassy in Washington gently trolled Americans on Independence Day, posting a ‘Fourth of July playlist’ created by faux Spotify user ‘KingGeorge1776’ featuring Player’s 1977 hit ‘Baby Come Back’ playing over and over again. The post also includes the ‘You’ll Be Back’ meme of Hamilton fame.

The viral tweet got over 100,000 likes and more than 13,000 retweets and spawned a host of replies poking equally inoffensive fun at the Embassy, King George, and Brits in general.

The replies quickly turned into a political debate about which country has become more of a “mess” since the heady days of 1776. Some users also reminded Britain about the upcoming Scotland independence referendum, suggesting the country should focus on that before eyeing longingly at its former American colonies.

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Vice President Kamala Harris spoke at the scene of the Highland Park mass shooting.

“We have to take this stuff seriously, as seriously as you are because you have been forced to take this seriously,” she said.

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🔎Texas officials representing Uvalde, Kinney, and Goliad counties gathered Tuesday to make an “important announcement about forthcoming emergency declarations” at a news conference in Brackettville.

They said the issue at the border has been harming families, businesses, and governments across Texas, nearby states, and beyond. "I’m here to let you know that the invasion is real,” Terrell County Judge Dale Lynn Carruthers said. "We are here to protect the sovereignty of our nation, not just the border of Texas,” she added.

Carruthers and several others called on President Joe Biden, as well as Gov. Greg Abbott, to stiffen laws and make changes. Among those who spoke included Uvalde Mayor Don Mclaughlin, Goliad County Judge Mike Bennett, and Kinney County Judge Tully Shahan.

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⚡️Musician Carlos Santana collapsed on stage during performance in Michigan Tuesday evening

⚡️⚡️ OPEC Secretary General Mohammed Barkindo has passed away, Nigerian petroleum boss Mele Kyari said on Twitter

LIVE | Russian FM Lavrov holds press briefing after talks with Vietnamese counterpart

⚡️⚡️ Two more resignations rock Johnson's government ahead of Wednesday PMQs

On Wednesday, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, commenting on calls made by a number of western countries that are taking part in the G20 to exclude Moscow from the summit, noted that he was not aware of any machinations to stop him participating in the forthcoming G20 meetings in Bali.

🗣 The Russian foreign minister added that that if any such attempts had been made, the Indonesian government simply ignored them.

The remarks came after talks between Lavrov and his Vietnamese counterpart Bui Thanh Son, held in Hanoi, Vietnam, from where the Russian foreign policy chief will travel to Bali, Indonesia, to take part in the G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting, which starts on Thursday

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▪️ Will Quince has resigned as a junior education minister in Boris Johnson's government, having previously defended the prime minister in interviews on Monday when he gave “repeated assurances to the media which have now been found to be inaccurate”;

▪️ Directly after Quince resigned, Laura Trott, who was a parliamentary private secretary at the Department of Transport, announced that she was standing down from her junior ministerial position

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⚡️ Robin Walker, MP for Worcester and a junior minister in the UK, is the latest to have resigned from Boris Johnson's government in which he held the post of minister of state for school standards. He said "recent events have made it clear to [him] that [his] great party has become distracted from its core missions by a relentless focus on questions over leadership"

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⚡️ Ankara has sent written demands to Sweden and Finland for members of the Kurdistan workers' party and the Gulen movement - both of which are outlawed in Turkey - to be extradited, Justice Ministry says

🍦 The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has advised Americans not to eat ice cream from the Big Olaf Creamery of Florida after an outbreak of listeria caused one death and 23 illnesses across 10 states.

The CDC has also warned consumers to clean any utensils that might have come into contact with the ice cream

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⚡️ John Glen, Economic Secretary to the Treasury and MP for the UK constituency of Salisbury, "has made the difficult decision to resign from government"

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😳 Tiara Mack, the first openly gay black woman to be elected to the Rhode Island state senate, thought that she might win her voters’ hearts by making a TikTok video noscriptd 'A promised senator thirst trap at Block Island', in which the Democrat could be seen twerking upside down.

It certainly attracted attention, causing something of a brouhaha among netizens - to put it mildly. However, the senator was unfazed by the condemnation which just seemed to spur her on to further heights as she tweeted: "Damn. Twerking upside down really makes the conservative, unhinged internet accounts pop off on a Monday."

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❗WATCH LIVE: BoJo participates in PMQs in House of Commons after high-profile Cabinet resignations

💭Boris Johnson says government should not resign during crisis