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New Zealand weightlifter Laurel Hubbard is set to become the first transgender athlete to compete in the Olympic Games after she was selected for the national team on Monday. She will compete in the women’s 87-kilogram category, according to the New Zealand Olympic Committee. Hubbard, 43, qualified for the rescheduled Tokyo Games in May after a rule change, which effectively guaranteed her a spot in the super heavyweight category, Reuters reported at the time. Tap the link in our bio to learn more. ⁠ ⁠ (📸: Alex Pantling/Getty Images AsiaPac/Getty Images)

Vice President Kamala Harris boards Air Force Two en route to an event in Pittsburgh, PA. #kamalaharris

REPORTER: 'Does the president believe that a 15-week-old unborn baby is a human being?' JEN PSAKI: 'Are you asking me if the president supports a woman's right to choose? He does.' https://t.co/pBdd6vpDaZ

Breaking News: Carl Nassib, a Raiders defensive lineman, became the first active NFL player to announce he’s gay, writing that he “agonized over this moment” for years. https://t.co/AmsZ3xy33R

⛰️ Two brothers from San Francisco are believed to have set a record for the longest highline ever walked across mountains in Yosemite National Park⁠ ⁠ Moises and Daniel Monterrubio and a group of friends spent nearly a week stringing a single, 2,800-foot-long line from Taft Point west across a series of gulleys that plunge 1,600 feet.⁠ ⁠ The longest line walked in Yosemite had been a 954-footer extending from Taft Point to an anchor east. ⁠ ⁠ The new line was almost three times that length.⁠ ⁠ The brothers, who are training to be rope-access technicians, had been thinking about crossing that void for a year.⁠ ⁠ "Every time we'd go out there, we'd think about that line," said Moises⁠ ⁠ 📌 Read the full story at the link in our bio 📌⁠ ⁠ #yosemite #highline #yosemitenationalpark #california #nature #travel #adventure #explore #mountains #outdoors

A Utah school district apologized after receiving backlash over a yearbook photo that didn’t include a member of its cheerleading team: Morgyn Arnold, who has Down syndrome. The 14-year-old was the manager for the Shoreline Junior High School cheer squad and attended games to boost school spirit, said her father Jeffrey Arnold. But when the Utah teen got her yearbook on the last day of eighth grade, she realized a photo that didn't include her was used, her dad said. "She walked in and she shows it to me, she says 'I'm not here, but these are my friends and I love them,'" Jeffrey Arnold told CNN. Tap the link in our bio to learn more. ⁠ ⁠ (📸: Shoreline Junior High School/KSL)

Carl Nassib of the Las Vegas Raiders announces he's gay. He's the first active NFL player to do so. https://t.co/vsyvgA48NR

Connecticut is 1st state to make all prison phone calls free

Collapse in St Petersburg, less than 15% vaccinated + delta type wave

Airlines, unions ask AG to crack down on passenger violence

Sudan to allow drinking alcohol for non-Muslims, ban FGM

Since 9/11, military suicides dwarf the number of soldiers killed in combat

Opinion | @FrankFigliuzzi1: Members of Congress may have become aware that the FBI is pursuing the root cause of the Jan. 6 riot — and that root may reach to Capitol Hill or those in fmr. President Trump’s orbit. - @MSNBCDaily https://t.co/hPbTUbheUf

Sesame Street has introduced a family with two gay dads for the first time https://t.co/QzOTtV7Yur https://t.co/AbDPCd1eYn

🔴 EXCLUSIVE: Treasury officials are drawing up plans for a pensions tax raid in the autumn to help pay for heightened public spending during the Covid pandemic⁠ ⁠ 💰 Three different reforms to the way in which pension contributions are taxed are being considered amid pressure on the public finances⁠ ⁠ 1️⃣ One of the ideas being examined is reducing the pensions lifetime allowance from a little above £1 million to £800,000 or £900,000, lowering the point above which extra tax charges kick in. ⁠ ⁠ 2️⃣ Another would see individuals contributing to pensions getting the same rate of tax relief, meaning higher-rate taxpayers lose out, while a third is new taxation on employer contributions.⁠ ⁠ 💸 Find out how the pensions tax raid would affect you at the link in our bio 💸⁠ ⁠ ⁠ #money #wealth #business #investment #pension #covid #coronavirus #covid19