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King Charles, who turned 75 Tuesday, announced he wanted to use his birthday to shine the spotlight on a good cause, to officially launch the Coronation Food Project to address waste and food poverty. Dw.Com...

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) says the House could pursue an impeachment inquiry into Pres. Joe Biden when it reconvenes in September if Biden withholds documents related to his family’s international business dealings and allegations that he accepted foreign bribes as vice president. Huffington Post...

China's top-ranking military official Gen. Zhang Youxia announced that Beijing aims to renew military ties with the US at the three-day Xiangshan security forum on Monday, amid recent efforts to restore military-to-military lines of communication ahead of possible Biden-Xi summit. Kyodo News+...

Ukrainian Pres. Volodymyr Zelenskyy reportedly "bombed" his first meeting with US Pres. Joe Biden at the White House, according to a new book that will be released next week. Guardian (LR: 2 CP: 5)...

The male-determining Y chromosome has been decoded, as researchers recently revealed the first complete sequence of the threadlike structure that carries genetic information from cell to cell. Reuters (LR: 3 CP: 5)...

According to a report published by The Intercept — which sites an Aug. 22 press release from the US office of the Director of National Intelligence’s Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), the agency's research and development arm — the federal government is investing $22M in clothing that "can record...

Assistant Sec. for Health and Human Services (HHS) Rachel Levine on Tuesday asked the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to reclassify marijuana as a lower-risk drug, calling for it to be shifted from a Schedule I to a Schedule III drug. Colorado Springs Gazette...

In an interview with CBS News, General Mark Milley, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who’s scheduled to retire Oct. 1, said he has taken "safety precautions" to protect himself and his family since former Pres. Donald Trump last week made a social media post that could’ve been construed as a threat toward Milley....

On Thursday, the Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) announced that it will join picket lines with the Writers Guild of America in their first double strike since 1960. Washington Post (LR: 2 CP: 5)...

On Thursday, Donald Trump's legal team asked a federal judge in Washington to schedule the former president's trial — concerning the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 Capitol riots — to April 2026. Reuters (LR: 3 CP: 5)...

Claims have emerged that Sam Bankman-Fried — founder of the bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange — wanted to pay former US Pres. Donald Trump $5B not to run for office in 2024. Forbes (LR: 3 CP: 5)...

On Tuesday, five former Memphis police officers involved in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols were charged in federal court for violating Nichols' civil rights. Al Jazeera (LR: 2 CP: 1)...

In a ceremony that was boycotted by most Western dignitaries, Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin was re-sworn in as Russian leader for a fifth term in Moscow on Tuesday. Al Jazeera (LR: 2 CP: 1)...

The US is considering sanctioning additional Israel Defense Forces (IDF) units over alleged human rights violations against Palestinians. Pres. Joe Biden is reportedly expected to sanction police forces as well as the Netzah Yehuda Battalion this week. timesofisrael.com...

According to FBI filings unsealed on Monday, unnamed National Archives officials urged ex-Pres. Donald Trump, in November 2021, to return classified documents held at Mar-A-Lago, but his response was reportedly “weird." New York Times (LR: 2 CP: 5)...

Pres. Joe Biden’s re-election campaign says it will continue posting on TikTok despite the president signing a bill Wednesday that could ban the popular short-video app. US News & World Report...

By a vote of 68-28 Tuesday, a bill that will allow some trained teachers and school staff to carry handguns was passed by the Republican-majority Tennessee House while dozens of protesters voiced their displeasure and had to be cleared from the chamber's galleries. The Tennessean...

The National published a report on Wednesday alleging that Israel had used spies and informants to locate and kill leading Hamas figures in Lebanon, particularly Saleh al-Arouri in January and Mohammad Srour in April. The National...

Oleksandr Syrskyi, the commander-in-chief of Ukraine's Armed Forces, said that in the face of multiple Russian attacks over the weekend, the frontline situation has worsened for Ukraine and that its troops withdrew from multiple positions in the eastern Donetsk region. BBC News...

A report in the Wall Street Journal, citing anonymous officials, says US intelligence agencies believe Russian leader Vladimir Putin likely didn't order the death of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny in February. WSJ.com...

A new Pew Research Center poll shows 55% of US Catholics say they would vote for former US Pres. Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, compared to 43% for incumbent Pres. Joe Biden. Biden won the demographic 50-49% in 2020. FOX News (LR: 4 CP: 4)...

At a Washington fundraiser on Wednesday, Pres. Joe Biden called key US allies India and Japan "xenophobic," alongside adversaries Russia and China, arguing New Delhi and Tokyo have been struggling economically because "they don't want immigrants." NBC (LR: 2 CP: 4)...

Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca on Tuesday announced that it's withdrawing its COVID vaccine globally, citing low demand and a "surplus of available updated vaccines." Guardian (LR: 2 CP: 5)...

During a speech in Pittsburgh on Wednesday, Pres. Joe Biden said his Uncle Ambrose J. Finnegan, who died in World War II, was "shot down in New Guinea, and they never found the body because there used to be... a lot of cannibals, for real, in that part of New Guinea." MSNBC (LR: 1 CP: 5)...

The Telegraph has reported that the US in late 2020 shared significant evidence with the UK suggesting the COVID pandemic likely originated from a lab leak in China, but leaders from the “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance allegedly ignored the reports. The Telegraph...