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President Biden took a moment to honor comedian Jon Stewart's advocacy of veterans ahead of signing the PACT Act, which will expand health care for veterans exposed to toxic burn pits.

Landmarks in Australia—including the Sydney Opera House and the Regent Theatre—were lit up with pink lights to honor Olivia Newton-John, who died on Monday. MORE AT LINK IN BIO.

✍️"Twenty years ago this week, a new campaign organisation made its presence felt with a prediction that rocked the political establishment. ⁠ ⁠ "Migration Watch UK said that Britain could expect more than two million immigrants every 10 years for the foreseeable future unless curbs were introduced."⁠ ⁠ 🔗Read more at the link in the bio

Dozens of wildfires are burning through southwestern France, amid Europe's successive heatwaves and drought.⁠ ⁠ The fires have destroyed homes and forced thousands of residents to evacuate. MORE AT LINK IN BIO.

TRUE SPORTSMANSHIP: Little League batter's touching gesture goes viral as he embraces and consoles pitcher who was distraught after his wayward throw had hit the opposition player in the head. #sports #baseball #littleleague #sportsmanship #heartwarming #kindness #sport

A pitcher for the Texas East Little League team hung his head, clearly upset after his last pitch hit a 12-year-old Oklahoma batter in the head, knocking off his helmet and leaving him lying in the dirt at home plate.⁠ ⁠ But Isaiah Jarvis, the batter who had been hit, soon recovered. He was OK.⁠ ⁠ Isaiah then stepped off first base, walked to the mound and wrapped his arms around the pitcher, letting him know he was all right.⁠ ⁠ “I wanted to go over there and spread God’s love and make sure that he’s OK, and make sure that he knows that I’m OK and that I’ll be OK,” Isaiah told CNN.⁠ ⁠ Link in bio.⁠ ⁠ 📷️: Little League Baseball and Softball

Have you ever been anywhere so humid that your sweat won't evaporate? Record-breaking temperatures are being experienced across the world this year, with Portugal reaching 47C and a new high of 49C in Delhi, India. These heatwaves have reignited the debate about how we can protect people from extreme heat – and what is the highest temperatures we can withstand? It's not only the dry temperatures we see on weather forecasts that matter. Enter the wet bulb temperature, as Jocelyn Timperley explains. #wetbulb #wetbulbtemperature #humidity #temperature #weather #heat #climatecrisis #globalwarming #extremeweather #heatwave #sweat #sweating #keepingcool

Space: It’s not for amateurs. At least not in the International Space Station. If you want to visit the orbiting laboratory, NASA now says you must be escorted by a former NASA astronaut, someone who can guide you through the dizzying, disorienting wonders of weightlessness and make sure your presence at the station isn’t a burden. The move comes as a number of private citizens are flying to space, changing the definition of what an astronaut is and who gets to be one. Private companies like Blue Origin and SpaceX have sent crews comprised entirely of private citizens to space. (Blue Origin is owned by Jeff Bezos, who also owns The Washington Post.) And NASA has sought to capitalize on the growth of the commercial space sector, announcing in 2019 that it would finally allow private citizens to visit, something Russia had been doing for years. Read more through the link in our bio.

🗣️ tomdaley has blamed “colonialism” for homophobic laws in place across the Commonwealth.⁠ ⁠ The Olympic diving champion stars in a new BBC documentary in which he visits “the most homophobic countries in the Commonwealth”, examining the claim that the British Empire left a legacy of anti-LGBT legal codes in post-colonial nations.⁠ ⁠ Daley has stated that one interview in the documentary, which will air on BBC One on Tuesday, opened his eyes to “where that homophobia stemmed from in the first place, and it is a legacy of colonialism”.⁠ ⁠ The BBC’s own description of the new documentary, Tom Daley: Illegal To Be Me, said that he “discovers the colonial legacy that first criminalised homosexuality and the toxic influence of slavery on attitudes towards LGBT+ people”.⁠ ⁠ Read more at the link in bio 👆️⁠ ⁠ #tomdaley #commonwealth #news

HE'S BEHIND YOU: #Drone footage captures a large #shark #swimming close to several blissfully unaware beachgoers in #Florida. #animals #aerial #beach #ocean #sea #daytonabeach

🔺 War in Ukraine: latest in pictures ⁠ ⁠ 1️⃣ A child swings on a swing set amid the remains of buildings in the town of Borodyanka, near the capital⁠ 📸 Sergei Chuzavkov/ AFP/ Getty Images⁠ ⁠ 2️⃣ Emergency workers pick up a shrapnel wounded woman after shelling in Bakhmut, Ukraine⁠ 📸 Diego Herrera Carcedo/ Anadolu Agency⁠ ⁠ 3️⃣ A girl stands at the symbolic cemetery of cars shot by Russian troops , some painted by local artists, in Irpin⁠ 📸 Sergei Supinsky/ AFP⁠ ⁠ 4️⃣ Volunteers evacuate civilians from Bakhmut and Mykolaivka⁠ 📸 Wolfgang Schwan/ Anadolu Agency⁠ ⁠ 5️⃣ Ukrainian servicemen carry a coffin with the body of their brother-in-arms Vitalii Petiushko, who was recently killed in a fight with Russian troops⁠ 📸 Reuters/ Serhii Hudak⁠ ⁠ 🔗 Click the link in our bio to read more

🐋A beluga whale stranded in the Seine river for more than a week died on Wednesday, despite the initial success of an “unprecedented” six-hour rescue operation to free the starving animal from waters 44 miles from Paris.⁠ ⁠ The rescue of the 1,800lb whale, a protected species that lives in cold Arctic waters, involved 25 divers, cranes, a net, numerous volunteers, a dozen veterinarians and a refrigerated truck in the early hours of the morning.⁠ ⁠ 🔗Read more at the link in the bio

SERIOUS SINKHOLE: Authorities in Chile are set to sanction a mining firm after a massive sinkhole appeared near a mine in the country. #sinkhole

JUST IN: Newly released inflation data reveals that price increases slowed in July, easing the strain on household budgets as the Federal Reserve fights inflation with a series of borrowing cost hikes. Tap link in bio for more. #news #inflation #cpi #economy

JUST IN: Department of Justice charges Iranian national and a member of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps in alleged murder plot of John Bolton "likely in retaliation" for a general's death when Donald Trump was president, prosecutors say. MORE AT LINK IN BIO.