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📹 In a dramatic surveillance video, the owner of a local smoke shop in Las Vegas appears to defend himself with a knife against two would-be thieves – identified only as juveniles – after one of them jumped over the counter.

👮‍♂️ Police have arrested the suspects, who are seen apparently trying to rob the store. The stabbed person was taken to hospital.

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👮‍♂️ Everett police are asking the public for help to identify a man accused of using a counterfeit $100 bill at a child’s lemonade stand, and walking away with $85 and lemonade.

▪️ According to the Everett Police Department, 11-year-old Jeremy spent his allowance to set up a lemonade stand on Beverly Boulevard.

💸 Police say a man approached Jeremy and offered him $100 for a drink, and he asked for exact change.
Jeremy used his allowance money to give the man $85 in change.

😐 When the man left, Jeremy went to a local gas station where he learned the $100 bill was fake and he was out all of his allowance money.

❤️ However, this sad story has a happy ending.

😌 When a neighbor of the family found out what had happened to Jeremy, she helped organize a GoFundMe account for him that has so far raised more than $1,800.

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⚡️ Beijing appreciates Russia's statement of support for the One China principle and opposition to actions violating China's sovereignty - foreign minister

😬 U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is being accused of hypocrisy after she condemned Russia for WNBA player Brittney Griner’s prison sentence. The Phoenix Mercury player was sentenced to nine years in prison for admitting to having accidentally packed vape cartridges, allegedly used for pain management, in her luggage. Griner was also ordered to pay a one million ruble ($16,600) fine.

▪️ While U.S. President Joe Biden—along with several U.S. diplomats and government officials—called the ruling “unacceptable” and demanded Russia release Griner, Harris also condemned the conviction via Twitter, labeling the imprisonment of Griner as “wrongful.”

▪️ Social media users were quick to jump on the V.P. for her hypocrisy regarding the sentencing of Griner. During her tenure as both San Francisco’s district attorney and California’s attorney general, Harris oversaw more than 1,900 marijuana convictions, and prosecutors under her supervision convicted people on charges related to the substance at a higher rate than her predecessor.

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📊 How Americans feel about the prospect of a third major political party in the U.S.

▪️ A recent Economist/YouGov poll reveals that Americans generally have positive views of the value a third major party would add to the US political system. Nearly half of Americans say they'd be willing to vote for a third party or independent candidate, although only around one-third report having done so in the past.

▪️ When asked how they feel about a third political party in the US, more Americans say a third party is necessary (39%) than say the Democratic and Republican Parties are enough to represent Americans (30%). The rest (31%) are unsure.

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😏 Donald Trump’s lawyers have argued the statute of limitations shouldn’t apply to the lawsuit he filed against political rival Hillary Clinton because the “immense and unrelenting demands” of the job prevented him from doing so sooner.

▪️ The former president was simply too busy during his single term in office to discover the details of the alleged plot, which he claims involved a vast effort to falsely accuse him and his 2016 campaign of colluding with Russia and swamp him with costly investigations, his lawyers wrote in a filing Thursday night in a federal court in Florida.

▪️ Trump “was preoccupied with carrying out his eminently important presidential duties and was therefore impeded from effectively asserting his rights,” his lawyers said.

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📹 Russian servicemen have delivered another batch of humanitarian aid and medicines to civilians in liberated settlements in the Kharkov region.

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🇯🇵 Bells have tolled in Hiroshima, Japan as the city marked the 77th anniversary of the world's first atomic bombing.

🌎 United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres joined the thousands of people packed into Peace Park in the center of the city to mark the anniversary of the bombing, which killed some 140,000. This is only the second time a UN secretary-general has taken part in the annual ceremony.

🗯 "Nuclear weapons are nonsense. They guarantee no safety - only death and destruction," Mr. Guterres said.

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🥴 A French scientist has apologized for a joke he posted on Twitter, in which he claimed a photo of a chorizo was that of a star.

▪️ Etienne Klein, who is the research director of the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, posted a photo last week that he claimed was of Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the sun, taken by the James Webb Space Telescope.

▪️ The telescope sent back its first full-color image showing the deepest view of the universe ever seen last month, after reaching its destination almost one million miles from Earth earlier this year.

▪️ Klein pointed to the level of detail in the image he posted and said that a “new world” was being uncovered.

▪️ But he commented on his post about an hour later to reveal the joke, saying that modern cosmology states that no object from “Spanish charcuterie” exists outside of Earth.

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🇺🇸 🇮🇳 The United States is set to take part in a joint military exercise with India less than 100 kilometers (62 miles) from the South Asian country's disputed border with China.

▪️ The military drills will be held in mid-October at an altitude of 10,000 feet in Auli in the Indian state of Uttarakhand and will focus on high-altitude warfare training, according to a senior Indian Army officer with knowledge of the matter.

▪️ Auli is about 95 kilometers from the Line of Actual Control (LAC), an inhospitable piece of land where the disputed border between India and China is roughly demarcated.

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❗️ Israeli defense minister has ordered to continue operation against Islamic Jihad

🇦🇫 Afghan authorities have not found a body at the site of a US missile attack on al-Qaeda leader

Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul - Taliban official
Earlier, the Taliban said they had no information about the whereabouts of Ayman al-Zawahiri.

* The Taliban is an organization sanctioned by the United Nations for terrorist activities.
* Al-Qaeda is a terrorist organization banned in Russia.

❗️🎥 Gaza-based militants have attacked the city of Netivot, in the Southern District of Israel, located between Beersheba and Gaza

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❗️ Erdogan said that he offered Putin to hold his meeting with Zelensky in Turkey

👀🇺🇸"I didn't know I could do that!”: ABC7 meteorologist Greg Dutra was hilariously surprised when he found out he could move the weather map behind him

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❗️🎥 The IDF has attacked several Palestinian Islamic Jihad targets in the Gaza Strip in the past hours

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