🇺🇲 President Biden changes position, now says life doesn't begin at conception...

😳 On Friday Biden appeared to change the position he had just six years ago on whether life begins at conception.

🗣"I’m prepared to accept that at the moment of conception there’s human life," he previously stated.

⚖ His comments came during a press conference where he discussed Texas' recently enacted abortion law. 🤰

💥🚚🇦🇫 Wow... by the looks of it, the Taliban seems thrilled with all the "left behind" US military equipment, courtesy of President Joe Biden. 🙃🇺🇸

🤱❗ After the Supreme Court declined to overturn the pro-life legislation in Texas, Florida's Republican Governor Ron DeSantis said he will "look more significantly" at a fetal heartbeat abortion ban as well. ♥️👶

❗💉😷 Former US President Donald Trump, who received his COVID-19 vaccine shortly before leaving the White House in January, has indicated he is unlikely to get the booster shot expected to be approved by the FDA in the coming months, although he stressed he is "not against it." 💉

❗😳💣 In August, a mere 30 percent of registered voters approved of President Joe Biden's handling of Afghanistan, while 61 percent disapproved, a POLITICO poll has shown. 🇺🇸🇦🇫

🕵️‍♀️ A former FBI agent claims that the United States helped Israel in preventing a major Al-Qaeda attack.

The information about the plot was obtained by operatives during interrogations of a Palestinian man apprehended in Afghanistan, an ex-FBI agent, Ali Soufan, who with other agents had followed al-Qaeda for the FBI both before and after the 9/11 attacks in September 2001.

Al-Qaeda reportedly expected that roughly 200 people would have been killed in the attacks, which were to take place at numerous clubs at the same time. ✈🔥

🗣President Biden’s top scientific adviser, Eric Lander, has claimed that the ongoing coronavirus health crisis has laid bare “fundamental issues” with US public health system that “go far beyond pandemic preparedness".

“The issues include the need to increase overall public health funding, strengthen the public health workforce, eliminate barriers to access, improve data systems, address disparities, improve communications, and improve coordination across federal, state, local, and Tribal authorities,” Dr Lander said, adding that the US government should start preparing as any future pandemic will likely be worse than COVID-19.

#URGENT | US Navy declares five sailors dead after helicopter crash in Pacific

🚔An argument between a father and two homeless people on a beach in Malibu turned violent, ending with the father losing an eye.

Last Sunday the two homeless people confronted the man, accompanied with two other adults and two children, saying they were not allowed in the area. This provoked an argument. One of the suspects, later identified as Richard Franck, whipped out a machete and slashed the father several times.

The two suspects were arrested after briefly barricading themselves in a public lavatory near the parking lot. The injured man was reportedly taken to hospital in a stable condition.

Donald Trump may soon be able to sell his Trump International Hotel in Washington DC, Axios reports, citing sources.

If the deal goes through, Trump's name could end up removed from the historic building in the center of the city.

🤨Some Artificial Intelligence software has landed Facebook in trouble after it generated “keep seeing” prompts for videos in which black men had been filmed and were identified as "primates".

The issue came to light when some users were watching the video from a British tabloid the Daily Mail featuring black men. The users soon received an automated prompt from Facebook asking if they would like to "keep seeing videos about Primates".

The video dated 27 June 2020, contained clips of two separate incidents, which appear to take place in the US. One shows a group of black men arguing with a white individual on a road in Connecticut, and the other shows several black men arguing with white police officers in Indiana before being detained.

"We apologise to anyone who may have seen these offensive recommendations," Facebook said adding that the tool is disabled now.

🍕🚀Space Pizza Party!

French astronaut Thomas Pesquet recently posted an Instagram video of him enjoying pizza with fellow astronauts on board the International Space Station.

“Floating pizza night with friends, it almost feels like a Saturday on Earth. They say a good chef never reveals their secrets, but I made a video so you can be the judge Everything but pineapple, that would be a serious offence in Italy,” captioned Pesquet while sharing a clip.

❗🌀At least 46 people in five states have died from Hurricane Ida related flooding, as flash floods engulfed homes and automobiles. The death toll was highest in New Jersey, with 23 people dead. The majority died in their cars. Floodwaters and a falling tree also took lives in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and New York. In New York City, 11 people died when they were unable to escape rising water in basement apartments. 🌊❗

❗️🇺🇸🔥Afghan victims of a U.S. drone strike on Thursday have called for an apology after people from their family were killed.

The family says the strike killed 10 relatives, including six children.

🎥✈️🥺🔫 Footage has circulated on social media showing US troops and Afghan security personnel standing behind barbed wire fencing at an entrance to Kabul airport while firing and throwing smoke grenades, indiscriminately shooting what look like blanks or rubber bullets into a crowd of Afghan civilians.

🍽🍛 A Florida diner that posted a sign telling Biden supporters to take their business "elsewhere" was forced to temporarily close after not having enough food to meet a surge in demand.

❗🇦🇫🔫 At least 17 people are dead and 41 more injured in Kabul in the wake of Friday night’s celebratory gunfire by Taliban fighters, a source in the Afghan capital’s emergency hospital has told Sputnik.❗

⚠️ 🇺🇸 About one in three Americans live in a county that was hit by a weather disaster in the past three months, The Washington Post reports. More than 60% of Americans live in places that experienced a heatwave this summer.

Starting from June this year, at least 388 people died in the US because of hurricanes, flooding, heat and wildfires.

photo credit: Miami Herald

🇺🇸 🌉 US Vice President Kamala Harris will start her trip to California, which had been postponed because of the Kabul airport suicide bombing, next week on Wednesday, her spokesperson Symone Sanders confirmed.

⚡️💥 🇺🇸 At least three people were killed and three others were injured in a shooting in Washington D.C. on Saturday night. According to police, the suspects exited a vehicle and fired shots into a crowd of people.

🚤US coast guard has reported that clean-up crews were responding to a large oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico following Hurricane Ida.

According to the Louisiana Oil Spill Coordinator’s Office, the slick is estimated to be 14 miles long, consisting of a 4-mile black sheen and a 10-mile rainbow sheen. The growing crude spill appears to be coming from an underwater source at an offshore drilling lease, approximately two miles south of Port Fourchon.