UPDATE | No tsunami warning issued after earthquake of magnitude 6.8 strikes east of Chignik, Alaska - U.S. tsunami warning system

⚡️ Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland has arrived in Moscow, a Sputnik correspondent says

🛫❌ Southwest Airlines continues cancelling flights after a weekend of major disruptions.

The carrier cancelled 348 flights on Monday, while another 303 were delayed, according to Flightaware.

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Check out some news you may have missed:

▪️The 2021 Nobel Prize in economic sciences was awarded to three US-based scientists, David Card, Joshua D. Angrist, and Guido W. Imbens.

▪️The US will provide humanitarian aid for Afghanistan but not recognise the Taliban as its new leaders, the group said.

▪️A US submarine engineer and his wife have been charged with attempting to sell secret info in peanut butter sandwiches.

▪️More than 80 runners have been rescued after a blizzard hit an Ultramarathon race in the Utah mountains.

▪️A passenger in the LaGuardia airport "bomb scare", who was pinned to the ground as a terrorist, was just adjusting his vintage camera.

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📹: Parents of Brian Laundrie bringing in mail and removing laundry baskets left by protesters from their front lawn – all of it in the middle of the night.

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❗️🇪🇺🇺🇸Despite differences in the policies of US President Joe Biden and his predecessor Donald Trump, Washington still does not take into account the opinion of the European Union, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell told Spanish newspaper El Pais.

⚡️ Afghan foreign minister says the Doha agreement can tackle all problems between Afghanistan and the US

😳 A teenage girl in Wyoming was arrested at school after she refused to put on a mask, her family said.

Grace Smith, 16, says she was arrested for trespassing after being suspended for not wearing a mask and refused to leave the school.

"When asked if they’re arresting her for [not wearing] her mask, they’ll say, ‘No, we're arresting her for her violation of failure to comply in accordance with their trespassing ordinance'", the girl’s father, Andy Smith, says.

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⚡️ Plane crashes into neighborhood near San Diego, California, police say

An enterprising married couple committed a very reckless act when they decided to try to earn extra money on the side. Jonathan Toebbe, who worked as a nuclear engineer in the naval department, and his wife allegedly decided to approach a foreign government with an exclusive offer - to get their hands on information considered "restricted" under US law.

After receiving money for the first two SD cards with data, which were sent via peanut butter sandwiches and even bubble gum wrappers, the couple proceeded to transmit information for the third time. Imagine their surprise when they realized that the person to whom they passed the information turned out to be an undercover FBI agent

Failed miserably

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⚡️ A devastating tornado rips through Rights, Illinois, sweeping away a farmhouse in its path

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It seems that the career of New York Mayor Bill de Blasio will soon go for a burton. First it was discovered that he had spent more than $ 300,000 in taxpayer money on his personal protection and transportation of himself and his family members.

🇮🇹 Now he was booed by Italian Americans when he made his return to the yearly Italian American celebration.

Though he is of Italian ancestry through his mother’s side, de Blasio has not often enjoyed a warm relationship with the Big Apple’s Italian American community.

Last year, de Blasio sparked outrage among his Italian-born compatriots when the city's public school system dropped Columbus Day, replacing it with Indigenous Peoples’ Day

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UPDATE | A firefighter confirmed that at least two people were killed in the plane crash

💸 More than $ 100 mln of taxpayer-paid border wall materials have been thrown away and will be wasted in Texas after President Biden stopped building the barrier.

Well, yes, why not throw massive amounts of taxpayer money down the drain, just to annoy @real_DonaldJTrump?

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⚡️ Texas Gov. @Greg_Abbott has banned all vaccine mandates in the state by any entity

Dr. Dorian Abbott, an assistant professor of geophysical sciences, was scheduled to deliver a lecture, which had over 1,000 people signed up, but MIT withdrew its invitation. And no, it was not cancelled because it didn't meet the norms and not at all because of the content of the lecture.

It turned out that MIT activists and academics disagreed with Abbott's earlier comments that academic assessment should be based on merit, not race or ethnicity.

🧐 What's next, segregated grading scales?

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Environmentalists went a little crazy on Monday.

Dozens of climate protesters took to the streets in Washington DC as Americans celebrate Columbus Day, or what is increasingly being called Indigenous Peoples' Day.

However, something went wrong and protesters spray-painted a statue of former US President Andrew Jackson near the White House and demanded urgent action from Biden on climate change.

🙂 So long as it's in the name of protecting the environment, right?

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