💸 Amazon faces a record-breaking fine: $887 million.

If you failed to process personal data the way the EU wants it, you'll have to pay for it. This is exactly what the Luxembourg National Commission for Data Protection decided.

Amazon disagrees with the decision: “There has been no data breach, and no customer data has been exposed to any third party,” a representative of the online store told the press.

#URGENT | US DoJ files lawsuit to block Texas order restricting undocumented immigrant travel in state

While the "mask wars" in the US Capitol continue, Nancy Pelosi disregards the rules that she considers so important.

Just take a look: here is a video from a ceremonial swearing-in for Congressman-elect Jake Ellzey.

Rules are for thee, not for me.

The White House is experiencing its own Olympic atmosphere: a steeplechase was on the schedule today. Who won in the competition between some unknown man in a pink shirt and the Secret Service?🥇

🇺🇸🇷🇺President Joe Biden told reporters he is "hopeful" about the recent arms control negotiations between Washington and Moscow.

"We are in process and I am hopeful," Biden said when asked if he was satisfied with the US-Russian strategic stability talks that took place in Geneva on Wednesday.

☢️ After analysing satellite images, US National Public Radio is "just guessing" that China is digging a new tunnel at Lop Nur, where the country once tested nuclear weapons.

Not at the level of "highly likely" yet, but hovering between "probably" and "possibly": https://sptnkne.ws/GU8Q

❗️Four-time Olympic champion, US artistic gymnast Simone Biles withdraws from uneven bars and vault finals at Tokyo Olympics. Earlier she spoke about a feeling of being 'lost in the air'.

Never enough oil? A New York Federal Court has ordered the confiscation of a tanker that was illegally supplying North Korea with oil.

▪️The alleged owner of the tanker, Singaporean national Kwek Kee Seng, is expected to be charged for "conspiracy to evade economic sanctions on the DPRK and money laundering conspiracy."

▪️The tanker was said to have been purchased “through front companies” and between August and December of 2019 did not provide the necessary data regarding its location.

▪️During this period the tanker was said to have transferred over $1.5 million worth of oil for North Korea.

#URGENT | Ex-USSR leader Gorbachev: Russia and US need to agree on lower nuclear weapons level

Check out some news you may have missed:

▪️ Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, has expressed hope that neither Russia nor the US will drag out their stability dialogue, noting that the two nations should agree on reducing their nuclear arms.

▪️ Four-time Olympic champion, US artistic gymnast Simone Biles has withdrawn from event finals for the vault and uneven bars.

▪️ New Mexico House Majority Leader Sheryl Williams Stapleton has resigned amid a criminal investigation involving alleged racketeering and money laundering.

▪️ Vice President Kamala Harris will travel across the Pacific, to Vietnam and Singapore, amid US tensions with China.

😷 After the latest federal mask mandate issued by the CDC, Joe Biden is now hinting at new COVID-19 restrictions.

The US president said “in all probability” additional measures might be on the way, but didn't provide any details.

Authorities in Minnesota are investigating the killing of a woman who was found beheaded in the town of Shakopee earlier this week.

Police officers said they had discovered the decapitated body of 55-year-old America Mafalda Thayer on the sidewalk with several stab wounds.

The news network Fox 9 reported that the woman's head was lying next to her body and that police also found what appeared to be a sheath for a large knife in a nearby alley.

Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Vietnam and Singapore in August to "strengthen relationships and expand economic support", as the White House puts it.

Harris will be the first American VP to visit Vietnam, which has a territorial dispute with China over the South China Sea.

READ MORE: https://sptnkne.ws/GUS4

Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser was spotted maskless while celebrating her birthday on Friday, hours before a new mask mandate – announced by Bowser herself – went into effect in the city.

Did she impose the mandate on Saturday so she could properly celebrate on Friday? 🤔

Meanwhile, her Twitter account has urged followers to mask up and “stay in this together”.

Face masks nowadays can have any kind of designs on them. But swastikas?

A Shell gas station in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, appeared to think it's a good idea to sell black face masks emblazoned with a white Nazi eagle insignia and swastikas.

What kind of fashionista is expected to buy that kind of mask?

🇦🇫 'Procrastination' that costs lives?

US lawmakers slammed White House efforts to evacuate Afghans who helped NATO and applied for American visas to escape Taliban retaliation as a 'complete disaster'

🗣 "It’s my view that the evacuations should have started right after the announcement of our withdrawal. That evacuation started too late", Democrat House member Jason Crow said. "We’re out of time. People are dying now. The situation is getting worse."

As the ongoing evacuation was launched in late July, many are risking their lives as the Taliban tightens its grip around the capital city.

The Biden administration keeps setting a "good" example?

Biden spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre held the presser maskless and walked away from the podium without a mask, for the second day in a row.

🇺🇸 ⚓️ The US Navy christened one of its newest Virginia-class attack submarines, the future USS Hyman G. Rickover (SSN 795), on Saturday. The ceremony did not go smoothly: the 🍾 sacrificial bottle of champagne was only broken on the third hit. 😬

Anthony Barajas, a 19-year-old TikTok star who was shot along with his friend, Rylee Goodrich, at a California movie theater on Monday, died on Saturday, according to police.