President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden celebrated Independence Day on Tuesday by hosting military families with a Fourth of July barbecue at the White House that was followed by an extravagant display fireworks. A 16-year-old girl was killed and four were injured in a shooting at a block party in Indianapolis. A federal judge ruled Tuesday to restrict some federal agencies from communicating with social media firms about certain content. A 69-year-old woman is dead following an alligator attack Tuesday morning in Hilton Head, S.C. The Taliban ordered Tuesday all beauty parlors in Afghanistan to close by July 25 in another new restriction aimed at women's rights. At least one person is dead following a fireworks explosion in Western Michigan that also injured nine others Monday night. London police said Tuesday they are conducting a pair of investigations into alleged violations of strict COVID-19 lockdown rules in place during 2020, including a gathering hosted by a London mayoral candidate. Competitive eating phenom Joey Chestnut continued his winning tradition on Tuesday, celebrating the Fourth of July by winning the Nathan's hot dog eating contest in Coney Island for the 16th time. A white, powdery substance that was found in the West Wing of the White House, prompting a brief evacuation late Sunday, is non-hazardous, the Secret Service said. The U.S.-based fundraising site GoFundMe is refusing calls to take down a donation page set up by a conservative figure to support the family of the French police officer involved in the shooting of a 17-year-old boy. Violence, disasters, climate change and human rights abuses have left more than 71 million displaced from their homes within their own countries, the United Nations Human Rights Council reported Tuesday. A climate-heating El Nino weather pattern has officially begun, the World Meteorological Organization announced Tuesday, predicting it will trigger extreme weather events around the globe. Three people were killed and eight others wounded during a mass shooting incident in Fort Worth, Texas, during a neighborhood July 4 gathering, authorities said, adding to a wave of U,S. holiday shootings. The Chinese government says it will start limiting exports of two rare raw metals used in computer chip production in retaliation for earlier U.S. semiconductor export restrictions against Beijing. At least eight Israelis were wounded in a car-ramming attack in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, which Palestinian militants claimed was in response to an ongoing large-scale Israeli military operation in the West Bank. Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked his allies Tuesday during a virtual summit in his first public meeting with world leaders since the short-lived Wagner Group uprising last month. NATO announced Tuesday it has extended the mandate Jens Stoltenberg as the alliance's secretary general for another year. Police in Philadelphia said five men were killed and two boys were injured in a shooting Monday night that spanned multiple blocks in the city's Kingsessing area. Russia blamed Ukraine for a drone attack in Moscow on Tuesday, claiming that all the drones were either "destroyed or neutralized." After a two-year safety review, the International Atomic Energy Agency on Tuesday approved Japan's plan to release radioactive wastewater from the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea. China is imposing export restrictions on two metals used in the manufacturing of semiconductors, deepening a trade conflict between Beijing and democratic nations over the all-important chips. In a strong rebuke of legislative efforts to constrain voting in Florida, a federal judge has blocked provisions of the state's sweeping new election law from going into effect, ruling that they are unconstitutional. Actor Melissa Barrera turns 33 and actor Eva Marie Saint turns 99, among the famous birthdays for July 4. |
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