✈️American Airlines is purchasing 20 of Boom's supersonic Overture jets

American Airlines announced that it had recently agreed to buy 20 Overture aircraft from Boom, with the option to purchase an additional 40 planes if all goes well.

At the start of the year, Boom announced it would build a manufacturing facility at North Carolina’s Piedmont Triad International Airport. The company expects to begin production in 2024, though the plant’s first completed jet won’t fly until sometime in 2026.

The company envisions the Mach 1.7 jet completing flights between Newark and London in under four hours and San Francisco to Tokyo in approximately six hours. The company also claims Overture will be a “net-zero carbon” aircraft thanks to its ability to fly on 100 percent sustainable aviation fuels.

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🥊 Ukraine’s Oleksandr Usyk Retains Heavyweight Boxing Titles

Ukrainian boxer Oleksandr Usyk has defeated his British opponent Anthony Joshua, retaining the WBA (World Boxing Association), WBO (World Boxing Organization) and IBF (International Boxing Federation) heavyweight noscripts. Usyk won the rematch with a 12-round split decision on Saturday night, at the Jeddah Superdome arena in Saudi Arabia.

In September of last year, Usyk won a boxing fight against Joshua at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, by unanimous decision.

The 35-year-old Ukrainian has 20 wins (13 by knockout) in the professional ring. Joshua, 32, has won 24 fights (22 by knockout) and suffered three losses.

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🏭 58% of human infectious diseases worsen by climate change

Climate change can exacerbate full infectious diseases that humans come in contact with worldwide, from common waterborne viruses to deadly diseases like plague, new research shows.

Researchers found that 58 percent of known human infectious illnesses, including malaria, hantavirus, cholera, and anthrax, have been worsened by extreme weather such as floods, heat waves, and droughts, according to a new study published by Nature Climate Change.

With climate change influencing more than 1,000 transmission pathways like those and climate hazards increasingly globally, we concluded that expecting societies to adapt to all of them successfully isn’t a realistic option.

The world will need to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that are driving climate change to reduce these risks

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NASA's Nicole Aunapu Mann will be the first Native American woman to visit space

As Indian Country Today reports, the agency recently confirmed that Marine Corps Col. Nicole Aunapu Mann will be the first Native American woman to travel to space.

The Wailacki tribe member will serve as the mission commander for the SpaceX-powered Crew-5 mission heading to the International Space Station as soon as September 29th.

She started her career as a Navy aviator and has flown the F/A-18 Hornet while supporting missions operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. She also earned her master's degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford. 

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◾️Actor Gary Busey faces sex offense charges at Monster Mania Convention

Actor Gary Busey has been charged with sexual offenses at a New Jersey fan convention this month. Cherry Hill Police responded to the hotel for the report of a sex offense.

Busey, 78, was charged Friday with two counts of fourth-degree criminal sexual contact, one count of attempted criminal sexual contact and one count of harassment, Cherry Hill police said Saturday.

The investigation into the incident is ongoing, police said. No further information was provided by police.

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🔹Foot found in Yellowstone hot spring linked to July death

Part of a human foot found in a shoe floating in a hot spring in Yellowstone National Park earlier this week is believed to be linked to the death of a person last month, park officials said Friday.

The shoe was recovered from the park’s Abyss Pool after an employee spotted it, park officials said. Abyss Pool, west of the West Thumb area of Yellowstone Lake, is 53 feet (16 meters) deep and the temperature is about 140 degrees Fahrenheit (60 Celsius).

The nation’s first national park has drawn more than 4 million visitors annually in recent years. At least 22 people are known to have died from hot spring-related injuries in and around the 3,471-square-mile (9,000 square kilometer) national park.

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💪🇺🇦 American actor Kevin David Sorbo who played Hercules in 'The Legendary Journeys' TV series has called for a halt in Western support to Kiev.

"Stop sending money to Ukraine," he tweeted.

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⚡️Russian philosopher Dugin's daughter Daria was killed in a car blast in Moscow region, investigators say.

A criminal case on murder has been opened after the deadly car accident.

🎬Cornish locals are worried that their county might be overrun by fans of 'House of the Dragon' after Cornwall was chosen as the location for the 'Game of Thrones' prequel to be filmed in, the Daily Mail has reported.

Cornwall is replete in tourist traps to which millions of visitors flock each year; among its most popular attractions are Mount's Bay, St Michael's Mount, Kynance Cove and Holywell Bay.

🤯Locals, however, feel that the burden on the infrastructure would be truly insufferable and they feel that tourists should seek out less popular places to protect the area.

'House of the Dragon' is an HBO prequel for hit show 'Game of Thrones'. It premieres today on HBO Max.

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🇬🇧 Senior Tories fear that their party might suffer devastating electoral losses under a Truss premiership — should she win the election race against ex-Chancellor Rishi Sunak and become British PM, reported the Observer.

Concerns have been fueled even more after a recent poll showed that UK Labour party leader Sir Keir Starmer’s initiative on freezing energy bills had boosted his popularly.

📊The latest Opinium poll for the Observer interviewed 2,001 UK adults from August 17–18, revealing that Labour had gained its biggest, eight point lead, over the Conservatives in months.

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🇯🇵 Japan is considering increasing the number of long-range cruise missiles in service to 1,000 amid simmering tensions in the Asian region, the Yomiuri newspaper reported on Sunday, citing military sources.

According to the report, Tokyo plans to deploy the majority of the missiles the Ryukyu Islands (also known as the Nansei Islands) and the island of Kyushu.

▫️The first long-range missiles are expected to be adopted by the Japanese self-defense forces in 2024 — two years earlier than originally planned, the news agency said.

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🇫🇮 Finnish women have started a "solidarity with Sanna" hashtag on Twitter to support the country's Prime Minister Sanna Marin who has landed in hot water after some videos of her partying were leaked online.

Defending a "right to party", women shared their own party footage where they are seen drinking alcohol and dancing.

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⚡️Car crash that killed Daria Dugina was planned, Russian investigators say

⚡️Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida tests positive for coronavirus — media reports

⚡️⚡️If 'Ukrainian trace' is found in Dugina's death, it'll point at Kiev's policy of state terrorism, Russian Foreign Ministry's spokeswoman Maria Zakharova says

⚡️ Japan PM tests positive for Covid-19, symptoms mild, office says

🏆 The Russian team won first place and set a new world record at the Masters of Armored Vehicles international competition in Ostrogozhsk, Voronezh region. Second place was taken by Belarus, and third place was shared between China and Uzbekistan

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

▪️Russian forces destroyed an ammo depot containing missiles for US-made HIMARS multiple-launch rocket systems and Western-made anti-aircraft systems near Mayorskoye, Odessa region, using high-precision, long-range Kalibr missiles;

▪️The Russian Air Force destroyed a Ukrainian fuel depot with more than 100 tons of diesel fuel for military equipment near Gulyai Pole, Zaporozhye region;

▪️Russian forces eliminated a temporary deployment point of the Right Sector nationalist group near Tsukurino, DPR as well as two US M777 howitzers near Knyazevka, Kherson region;

▪️Russian forces destroyed more than 100 Ukrainian servicemen in the Nikolaev and Kherson regions;

▪️Russian air defenses shot down nine Ukrainian drones near Staromlynovka and Gorlovka, DPR

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📹 Residents of Donetsk fear for their lives due to constant Ukrainian shelling

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