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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.
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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.
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🇺🇸 ⚓️ 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.
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❗️ 🇮🇱 🇺🇸 Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid talked with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken over the phone on Saturday, discussing the attack on the Japanese-owned Mercer Street merchant vessel.

🔎 "They agreed to work with the United Kingdom, Romania, and other international partners to investigate the facts, provide support, and consider the appropriate next steps," US State Department spokesperson Ned Price said.
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#URGENT | Simone Biles pulls from event final for floor exercise at Tokyo Olympics
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#URGENT | Simone Biles pulls from event final for floor exercise at Tokyo Olympics
The US gymnast is yet to decide on her participation in the balance beam competitions later this week.
🏠 While Nancy Pelosi sleeps comfortably in her mansion, millions of Americans will soon to be evicted from their homes.

This prompted San Francisco activists to gather at her Pacific Heights house to deliver an “eviction” notice, as they want the House Speaker reconvene Congress to pass an extension to the expiring eviction moratorium.
#URGENT: Foreign intel chief: US uses Russia as 'scapegoat' external enemy by accusing it of cyberattacks
Check out some news you may have missed:

▪️ The US has registered a new epicentre of COVID-19 in Florida with 21,683 new cases.

▪️ Housing and homeless advocates protested outside of Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco home Saturday demanding the House speaker reconvene Congress to pass an extension to the expiring eviction moratorium.

▪️ Rep. Ilhan Omar has introduced two guaranteed income bills, aimed at sending $1,200 monthly checks to most Americans before the end of the decade.

▪️ The 18-year-old Olympic gymnastics champion Sunisa Lee added a bronze in the uneven bars finals on Sunday. Lee earned a silver in the team competition on Tuesday before grabbing gold in the all-around on Thursday.

▪️ US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told Tunisian President Kais Saied on Saturday that his country needs "honest governance".

▪️ An ex-manager of the Soros' fund, Howard Rubin, has been accused by several women of beating and raping them during BDSM sessions in a sex dungeon.
🤔 Tokyo Olympics = Oscar ceremony?

HBO host Bill Maher has slammed the "woke" culture at this year's Games, asking not to "turn the Olympics into the Oscars".

Or has it already happened?

"You know back in April when the Oscars aired, I commented in this space that the theme of that evening was 'we dare you to be entertained.' Lest your mind waiver for a few hours from thinking about the sad things and bad people in the world", he said during the latest episode of "Real Time with Bill Maher".

He recalled a number of notorious resignations in Japan before the Games began, calling them a "purge".

"This is yet another example of how the woke invert the very thing that used to make liberals liberals. 'Snitches and b*tches'. That's not being liberal", Maher said.
Chris Cabrera, vice president of the US National Border Patrol Council (NBPC), told Fox News on Saturday that NBPC agents have to release COVID-positive migrants into the US on a daily basis.

"Not everyone we encounter we test, only those that exhibit some type of symptoms and not everybody has symptoms that has it. And we're releasing people out of the door day in and day out with actual positive tests for COVID and more keep popping up", Cabrera said
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😮 New Orleans police are investigating a mass shooting on Bourbon Street early Sunday morning.

Five people were injured in the shooting, which broke out around 3 a.m.
😮 Elon Musk has modernised space travel, revolutionised the auto industry and wants to prevent a possible future war with AI, and he also once wanted to do presentations of Iphone, well, kind of. According to a new book, “Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk and the Bet of the Century”, which was reviewed by the Los Angeles Times, the tech maverick wanted to become the CEO of Apple.

Musk voiced his desire during a phone call with Tim Cook, when the latter proposed to buy Tesla, which experienced financial problems, writes author of the book Tim Higgins. Musk agreed, but on one condition.

I’m CEO, CEO of Apple, the tech maverick said, according to the book.

"F**k you", said Cook and purportedly hang up
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BREAKING | US 'confident' Iran is behind Mercer Street tanker attack, vows 'appropriate response'
As the US accuses Iran of conducting an attack against the tanker ship Mercer Street, the first photos depicting the aftermath of the attack have appeared online.
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🇷🇺🇺🇸 Russian Foreign Intelligence chief Sergei Naryshkin speaks out on relations with the West in an interview with Solovyov LIVE YouTube channel:

▪️The Russian intelligence is aware that the West is plotting provocations ahead of the September parliamentary elections in the country;

▪️The US allegations of Russia's meddling in the 2022 midterm elections are meant to justify a possible failure of the Democratic Party;

▪️The Foreign Intelligence Service knows a part of the truth about the alleged poisoning of opposition figure Alexey Navalny;

▪️President Biden's remark about President Putin's alleged problems was likely prepared by White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, not by the US intelligence service;

▪️Cyber allegations against Russia are a part of the US quest for an external enemy.