Quote of the day by Jill Biden: “Good marriages push us — not to become someone else but to become the best version of ourselves”

Quote of the day by Dr Jill Biden on a good marriage. In 2019, the First Lady Jill Biden published one of her most memorable works — Where the Light Enters — a story of the Biden family. It's a story of love, the tasks of marriage, and how she built the Biden family. The book is replete with interesting anecdotes of how Joe and Jill met and how they started dating and how they got married but this quote on marriage remains the most remarkable as Jill Biden did not paint a rosy picture of getting married to a politician — to eventually become the First Lady. In simple words. she explained what marriage is and what a good marriage is.”Good marriages push us—not to become someone else but to become the best version of ourselves,” Jill Biden wrote.Jill Biden's first marriageJill and Joe's marriage was neither of their first marriage and both of them had their equal share of suffering. Jill married Bill Stevenson, a former college football player, in February 1970. They me..

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Youth suicides in Hong Kong hit 10-year high: court report

AdvertisementHong Kong societyHong KongSocietyYouth suicides in Hong Kong hit 10-year high: court reportPopulation expert warns of ‘virtual alienation’ trend among youth as cases rise for those aged 10 to 19 in 2025
3-MIN READ3-MIN1Emily HungPublished: 9:00am, 12 Jul 2026Youth suicide cases confirmed by Hong Kong Coroner’s Court reached a decade-high last year, despite a 10 per cent overall decline across the population to 1,019.
According to the annual coroners’ report published last month, suicide cases confirmed by the court declined across almost all age groups, except for those aged between 10 and 19.
Last year, 46 adolescents aged 10 to 19 were reported to have taken their own lives, up from 34 cases in the previous year and reaching a decade high. Most of these deaths involved falls from height.
There was also one girl aged below 10 who took her own life.
The age group that had the sharpest decline was the 40-to-49 bracket, which recorded 138 cases, down by 26 per cent from 186 ..

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Kash Patel instructed by the White House to oversee investigation into NYT journalists: report

The White House reportedly instructed FBI Director Kash Patel to investigate a leak to theNew York Times over the newspaper's reporting of President Donald Trump’s Qatari-donated Air Force One alternative.
Patel was planning to fly to Chicago last week to see his girlfriend Alexis Wilkins, a country music singer, and to visit an FBI field office in the city when he abruptly cancelled the trip.
It emerged that Patel was called in to the White House, where he spent “roughly eight hours running the investigation from there rather than FBI headquarters,” on Friday, the newspaper reports. The Times noted the move marked “a major departure from historical practice.”
Two people familiar with the situation told the Times that Patel briefed senior administration officials about the investigation into the paper’s Air Force One report. One person told the newspaper that the FBI director “had his own concerns about the type of information publicly disclosed about the plane.”
On Friday nigh..

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Iran-US war latest: Trump launches fresh strikes on Iran as Hegseth vows ‘now they pay’

Trump says military will ‘completely decimate and destroy’ Iran if he’s assassinatedThe US has launched fresh strikes on Iran less than 24 hours after President Donald Trump threatened to “decimate and destroy” the country in the event of his assassination.
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth posted a message on X Saturday night saying, “Iran made a poor choice. Now they pay.”
Central Command confirmed that its forces attacked Iran in retaliation for the nation’s alleged attack on a civilian-crewed container ship in the Strait of Hormuz. The attack comes just hours after Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei vowed revenge for the death of his father at the start of the war.
“Iran was provided yet another opportunity to demonstrate adherence to the Memorandum of Understanding after being held accountable for earlier attacks on commercial vessels but has again failed,” Central Command said in a statement. “In response, the United States is imposing a heavy cost by continuing to degrade Iran’s ab..

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Iran declares Strait of Hormuz closed, US launches new strikes

Iran on Sunday said ⁠it closed the Strait of Hormuz after a vessel travelled on an unapproved route and was struck, warning that any retaliation over the incident would be met with a “severe response”.
“A vessel that had jeopardised maritime security by switching off its systems was struck and brought to a halt,” the Navy of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said in a statement, without giving any details about the ship.
⁠The ⁠US ⁠military said shortly after that it had launched a new…

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Candace Owens erupts at Andrew Kolvet’s Erika Kirk defense, calls biblical comparison ‘blasphemous’ and ‘sick’

Candace Owens erupts at Andrew Kolvet’s Erika Kirk defense, calls biblical comparison ‘blasphemous’ and ‘sick’ (Image via Getty) The bitter public fight between Candace Owens and leaders at Turning Point USA has taken another sharp turn. On July 10, Owens hit back at TPUSA spokesman Andrew Kolvet after he posted a sarcastic message on X that compared conspiracy theories to claims that Jesus’ resurrection involved a body double and that Mary was part of a murder plot. Owens called the comparison “positively blasphemous” and accused Kolvet of misusing Christian beliefs to defend Erika Kirk, the widow of late TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk. The latest clash comes as court proceedings continue for Tyler Robinson, the man charged with killing Charlie Kirk during a September 2025 TPUSA event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. Prosecutors have presented video evidence, DNA findings and statements allegedly linked to Robinson, while his defense team has challenged parts of the forensic case…

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“He’s just been completely crazy”: Connor Murphy’s friend reveals what happened when the cameras stopped rolling

Connor Murphy's close friend Austin Wayne says the late fitness influencer's controversial looksmaxxing persona was largely an act created for content. Remembering Murphy as calm, kind and genuine, Wayne urged people to stop chasing clout from his death and instead prioritize mental health, saying, “That's much more important than looksmaxxing.” The death of fitness influencer Connor Murphy has sparked an outpouring of tributes, but it has also reignited conversations about the public image he built online. As speculation continues to spread across social media, one of Murphy's closest friends is urging people to separate the viral persona from the man he knew in real life. Speaking after Murphy's reported drowning in Thailand, Austin Wayne painted a very different picture of the influencer, describing a calm, thoughtful friend rather than the unpredictable figure many viewers believed they were watching.Connor Murphy's friend says the viral looksmaxxing p..

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UAE investor who bought half of Trump crypto firm gets green light to buy US AI chips as critics slam ‘corrupt deal’

Critics are attacking the Trump administration for a deal to let the United Arab Emirates access cutting-edge U.S. technology, accusing the White House of offering the country preferential treatment because a U.A.E. royal invested millions in a Trump family cryptocurrency company last year.
The Commerce Department announced on Friday that it will allow the U.S. ally license-free access to crucial technology such as AI chips. That status will extend to U.A.E. companies such as G42, which is chaired by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the UAE’s national security adviser.
Four days before President Trump’s inauguration, another Tahnoon-backed company reportedly spent $500 million to buy what was initially a secret 49 percent stake in World Liberty Financial, the Trump family’s fledgling crypto firm. The deal reportedly sent an immediate $187 million to Trump entities and helped fuel the family’s crypto empire.
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren called the change in Commerce Department e..

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As Typhoon Bavi nears, Chinese bloggers warned amateur AI forecasts may be illegal

AdvertisementScienceChinaScienceAs Typhoon Bavi nears, Chinese bloggers warned amateur AI forecasts may be illegalOnline ‘weather enthusiasts’ in China are posting typhoon predictions, prompting criticism from state media
2-MIN READ2-MIN ListenDannie Pengin BeijingPublished: 8:00am, 11 Jul 2026As residents of eastern China brace for Typhoon Bavi to make landfall, bloggers have turned to AI weather models to post forecasts on social media, prompting criticism from state media, which warned that the amateur predictions could fall foul of the law.State broadcaster China Media Group reported on Thursday that some bloggers claiming to be “weather enthusiasts” were issuing forecasts using data from various open-source artificial intelligence weather models.Some have even begun offering predictions for specific locations for a fee, according to the broadcaster, also known as Voice of China.
On Thursday evening, a blogger from Shandong province posted predictions about Typhoon Bavi on social m..

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