🗣 "I have never liked the word retirement. It doesn’t feel like a modern word to me. I’ve been thinking of this as a transition, but I want to be sensitive about how I use that word, which means something very specific and important to a community of people. Maybe the best word to describe what I’m up to is evolution. I’m here to tell you that I’m evolving away from tennis, toward other things that are important to me", Williams told Vogue.

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⚡️⚡️ Several rounds of ammunition detonate at Crimea airfield, Russian Defense Ministry says

⚡️ Report indicates no fire impact at bunded ammunition storage area at Saki airfield in Crimea, where explosion happened - Russian Defense Ministry

🇷🇺 The Russian Foreign Ministry's Twitter account in English has been blocked since August 5, Maria Zakharova, the ministry's spokeswoman said

🗣 "On the night of August 5, the administration of the Twitter platform blocked the official account of the Foreign Ministry in English for 7 days. The reason is the publication of statements from the briefing of Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, the head of the radiation, chemical and biological defense of the Russian Armed Forces, about military biological activities of the United States," Zakharova wrote on her Telegram channel.

❗️ Five injured, including one child, were taken to hospital after explosions in Crimea - Ministry of Health.

❗️🇺🇸🇨🇳 Joe Biden signs bill bolstering US semiconductor industry, science amid competition with China

❗️📹 "People burnt to death on their beds": A Ukrainian prisoner of war speaks about the shelling of the pre-trial detention center in Yelenovka, saying it was carried out by Kiev.

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🇺🇸🗣 US House Republicans have demanded an immediate briefing by FBI Director Christopher A. Wray concerning the raid on former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence, calling the action “unprecedented” in the history of the country.

In a letter to the FBI, the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, Michael R. Turner, said that he was "unaware of any actual or alleged national security threat" posed by any information, data, or documents in the possession of Trump.

📍 International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples: Check out Sputnik's infographic to learn about the chronology of Africa's decolonization.

🔻 The US House Ways and Means Committee is legally able to receive information from Donald Trump’s tax returns as part of the congressional panel's probe into the former president’s finances.

The Ways and Means Committee requested information for several years of Trump’s personal and business tax returns in order to better understand the Presidential Audit Program run by the Internal Revenue Service. Trump unsuccessfully challenged the release of the returns by the Treasury Department, arguing that it violates the First Amendment of the US Constitution and the constitutional principle of separation of powers.

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❗️📹 "They shoot at everything and everyone": A resident of Severodonetsk reveals how her little son was wounded by Ukrainian neo-Nazi shelling.

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Joe Biden vs his clothes: POTUS failed to put his jacket on until his wife Jill helped him. After the jacket issue was solved, there came another one: he dropped his glasses.

👀 What would happen if he tried putting on his jacket while going up the stairs?

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❗️Twitter users around the world report problem with the platform - Downdetector

❗️ Twitter services restored following brief outage - Downdetector

💾 Biden signs $280 billon act to boost US tech

President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed a $280 billion bipartisan bill to boost domestic high-tech manufacturing, part of his administration’s push to boost US competitiveness over China. The bill has been more than a year in the making, will incentivize investments in the American semiconductor industry in an effort to ease US reliance on overseas supply chains for critical, cutting-edge goods.

The White House sought Tuesday to begin selling the immediate impacts of the semiconductor measure, noting that Micron, a leading US chip manufacturer, will announce a $40 billion plan to boost domestic production of memory chips, while Qualcomm and GlobalFoundries will unveil a $4.2 billion expansion of an upstate New York chip plant.

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🚨 Albuquerque police detain suspect in shootings of 4 Muslim Men

After a weekslong search that left the city’s Muslim community living in fear, Police Chief Harold Medina made the announcement on Tuesday that authorities had tracked down a vehicle believed to be involved in one of the slayings in New Mexico’s largest city.

Police initially said the same vehicle was suspected of being used in all four homicides — a dark gray or silver four-door Volkswagen that appeared to be a Jetta or Passat with dark tinted windows. Authorities released photos hoping people could help identify the car and offered a $20,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.

Albuquerque authorities say they cannot determine if the slayings were hate crimes until they have identified a suspect and a motive. Few anti-Muslim hate crimes have been recorded in Albuquerque over the last five years, according to FBI.

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