The Walt Disney Corporation and TikTok announce a short-form video deal as Disney sells its 50% A+E Global Media stake for $1.2 billion to Hearst.
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Mass shooting in North Carolina - 3 killed including the suspect and 1 injured.
Nigel Farage's popularity is at its lowest point since 2 years.
Santander has received approval from the Fed to acquire the Webster Financial Corporation over 100 days after it submitted the application.
James Talarico has said that the best political colour for Texas is purple.
Tommy Tuberville holds an 8-point lead over the Democrat Doug Jones in Alabama’s race for governor, according to a poll conducted 8-11 July and commissioned by the Yes, Every Kid Foundation, a school choice organization. Among 601 likely Alabama voters, 49% support Tuberville and 41% Jones.
UK farmers believe vegetables will be smaller and more expensive due to dry and hot weather.
China's Commerce Ministry has launched a wave of sanctions against US firms including a biotech firm, blacklisting 7 American entities.
Republican Senator Flake has endorsed Jon Ossoff for the U.S. Senate, saying character matters.
The U.S. military's GPS jamming exercise at the White Sands Missile Range totally disrupted the navigation systems of a MedEvac plane with a crew of 4, likely causing it to crash into Capitan Mountains in New Mexico on 14 May 2026. The ATC paused the exercise but resumed it shortly before the crash.
More than 100 Mexican firefighters have arrived in British Columbia.
UK inflation remains above the government's 2% target, recorded at 2.6% in the 12 months up to June 2026.
It's estimated Trump's National Guard deployment in D.C. will cost $1.4 billion from Oct 1 to January 2029.
Susan Collins will vote against Todd Blanche's nomination for AG.
The spent SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage, travelling at roughly 5400 mph (7 times the speed of sound), is in space since January 2025 and is projected to hit the Moon early August 5, creating a dust plume. The impact reportedly poses no danger, and will carve out a lunar crater about 90 feet wide.
The largest leveraged buyout in history has been completed - Electronic Arts sold for $55 billion and officially a private company.
On this day the U.S. Revenue-Marine, now the modern Coast Guard, was signed into law by George Washington in 1790. Decades later Barack Obama was born.
In 2025 China's AI sector exceeded 1.2 trillion yuan - a 40% increase.
President Zelenskyy dismissed Ukraine's ambassador to the US Olha Stefanishyna - she clarified she wished to step down due to personal circumstances. Ukraine accused Russia of a war crime as footage emerged of a Russian drone chasing a vegetable seller in Kherson and detonating right next to him.
The University of Kent and the University of Greenwich have merged as LASE, forming the first UK super-university, to be launched in September.
Japan, United Kingdom and Italy are building a fighter jet together.
2 firefighter helicopters collided mid-air over Greece killing 2 crew members (1 Danish, 1 Greek). A British national survived.
Project 17: 100,000 Iraqi soldiers invaded Kuwait on this day in 1990, triggering the Persian Gulf War.