🤔 Pentagon Chief dodges question on reports the US has asked to access Russian bases in the Central Asia to monitor Afghanistan

"I can assure you that we are not seeking Russia's permission to do anything. We are not seeking approval from Russia about anything," Secretary of Defense Austin says of reported conversations with Russia about using military bases in Central Asia for over the horizon operations.

⚡ Senate majority leader Schumer tees up vote to increase debt limit without GOP support

❗ Russian fighter Su-27 escorted US Air Force reconnaissance aircraft RC-135 over Black Sea - Defense ministry

🥴 How about this, Elon?

SpaceX Founder's ex-lover, Canadian singer Grimes, said that she would be “colonising Europа [one of Jupiter’s moons] separately from Elon for the lesbian space commune.”

🇺🇸 🇦🇫 US would have gone to war with Taliban if troops were to stay in Afghanistan past 31 August deadline, Milley says

⚡️ Generals Mark Milley, Kenneth McKenzie dispute Biden's claim al-Qaeda is gone from Afghanistan

Milley believes US 'absolutely missed' swift collapse of Afghan government and military

⚡️ Hundreds of Twitter users worldwide report problems accessing the social media platform

Donald Trump's former press secretary Stephanie Grisham said in her recent book that some of Trump's aides believed Russian President Vladimir Putin had deliberately picked a dark-haired beauty as his interpreter for a meeting with Trump in 2019 to act as a distraction.

When asked if this was true, the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said the Russian Foreign Ministry was responsible for the choice of interpreters.

"Putin has nothing to do with this," the spokesman told Sputnik.

⚡️ BREAKING | Taliban warns of consequences if US drones do not stop violating Afghanistan's airspace

Chants of "F*ck Joe Biden" were recently heard across stadiums at several college football games as approval ratings for the US president plummet amid the country's weak economic recovery and the Afghanistan debacle.

Social media is awash with videos of people chanting the slogan.

Pandemic clips wings.

📉 Lockheed Martin has announced that it will deliver fewer F-35 fifth-gen fighter jets in 2022 than previously planned, and has blamed Covid for the delays.

⚡️ White House says Joe Biden did not think leaving troops on the ground in Afghanistan was in interest of American people

It's common knowledge that smoking kills.

But in this particular case, the bad habit actually saved someone's life.

Check out the video to see how!

⚡️ Republicans in US Senate block vote sought by Democrats to suspend federal debt ceiling

UPDATE | The measure would have allowed Democrats to increase the debt limit on their own, bypassing the chamber's usual 60-vote margin

That's how they rewrite history.

💬 The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has rephrased a famous quote from the late women's rights activist, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, replacing the use of the words “woman,” “she” and “her” with "person" and "their".

😒 Incidentally, Ginsburg was defending women's rights in her quote, and the ACLU, by changing the quote, thereby infringes upon the civil rights and freedom of women

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☄️ At least five fireballs were reported over the United States last week.

The NASA Meteor Watch notes, however, that “there is more than the usual amount of uncertainty in the trajectory solution due to all the observers being located to the west of the fireball”

Check the video

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🗣 "Did the president mislead the American public about the advice of his military advisors?"

With such a sharp question to Jen Psaki, the White House press conference began.

🗣 She, meanwhile, tried to clarify: “What should everybody take from that? There was a range of viewpoints… presented by his national security team, as he asked for… It was also clear - clear to him that that would not be a long-standing recommendation, that there would need to be an escalation, an increase in troop numbers."

😳 The White House spokesperson thus apparently confirmed that Biden did in fact receive that recommendation but decided to ignore it and withdraw anyway

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🇺🇸✈️ United Airlines is terminating nearly 600 employees for failing to get vaccinated, CNN reported citing a company letter.