A police officer in Springfield, Illinois, killed a black woman who called 911 to report that an unknown person might have broken into her home. Video from the killer's colleague's body camera was published by CNN. The murder of 36-year-old Sonia Massey occurred on July 6, the weekend of the American Independence Day. The woman called the police early in the morning, while it was still dark.

The security forces became interested in the actions of the participants of the reality show "The Last Hero" after they were shown on TV killing and eating an otter. The corresponding message appeared on the website of the prosecutor's office of the Altai Republic.

Half a million users set war on the territory, canceling each other The developer of games from New York created the One Million Checkboxes website-this is a large board, which consists of a million core boxes. Users could put a checkmark in any cage, and other visitors to the site who could put their checkmarks - and shoot strangers immediately saw it. In the first days, 500 thousand people visited the site. Users arranged a real war over the territory and even used bots.

The fishing vessel Argos Georgia sank in the South Atlantic Ocean with 27 crew members on board, including Russian citizens, The Guardian reports , citing local authorities. Ten crew members, including the captain, are reportedly Spanish citizens. In addition to the Russians, there were also citizens of Indonesia, Uruguay and Peru on board. The publication reports that at least eight people were killed and seven more are missing. The St Helena-flagged vessel left port on July 21.

US Vice President Kamala Harris has for the first time overtaken her main rival in the presidential election, Donald Trump, in a national opinion poll, Reuters reported . The potential Democratic candidate received 44% of the votes, while the Republican candidate received 42%, according to the results of a survey conducted on July 22-23 by Ipsos on behalf of Reuters.

There are no families left in Russia that “don’t have enough money even for food,” according to data published by the Federal State Statistics Service. The corresponding column for 2023 shows the numbers “0.0.” For all 20 years that Rosstat has published similar data, the column has shown decreasing but non-zero values ​​— for example, 0.1% for 2022. For comparison, in 2004, Rosstat found 4.4% of families in Russia that did not have enough money for food.

A thousand Americans from poor families in Illinois and Texas received $1,000 a month for three years as part of a social experiment. The OpenResearch company conducted what the organizers called the largest study in history of the impact of a guaranteed basic income on a person's life. OpenResearch received a $24 million grant from OpenAI and its creator Sam Altman.

In Magnitogorsk, the body of a young woman was found in the Ural River, wrapped in a bag. The police detained her father on charges of murder, who confessed, writes the publication 74.ru. According to investigators, the 64-year-old man strangled his daughter, 31-year-old Alexandra Brovkina, in late May this year. He then reportedly brought her body to the garage, where he hit her on the head at least twice with a hammer, packed her in a weighted bag, and wrapped it with tape.

Three-time Olympic dressage champion, British rider Charlotte Dujardin, has been banned from the Paris Olympics over a video of her beating a horse with a whip, the British newspaper The Telegraph reported , citing the press service of the International Equestrian Federation (FEI). The footage, which reportedly shows Dujardin beating his horse "like a circus elephant," hitting it 24 times in one minute, was provided to the FEI by an unnamed witness.

The Investigative Committee has proposed to the State Duma to introduce amendments to legislation that could complicate life for foreigners in Russia. The document signed by the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, includes a requirement to oblige all those arriving in the country to give fingerprints and undergo “genomic registration” right at the checkpoint.

On the eve of the Olympics in Paris, French counterintelligence officers detained a Russian citizen, AFP reported , citing its own source. The man, born in 1984, was accused of "organizing events that could lead to destabilization during the Olympic Games," Le Parisien specified . The French authorities did not name the detainee.

Kremlin bots are spreading a fake English-language video of the Little Big group dedicated to the Olympic Games in Paris. The video has already been viewed more than seven million times, writes Agency, citing the Bot Blocker project . The two-minute video mocks the Olympics, which will open on July 26 in Paris, as well as the French authorities and the leadership of the International Olympic Committee.

Sunday, July 21, was the hottest day on record since 1940. The average temperature worldwide on that day reached 17.09 degrees Celsius, according to data from Europe's leading climate monitoring centre, Copernicus. Previously, the average temperature on the same day, July 21, from 1991 to 2020 did not exceed plus 16.25 degrees. In 2023, from July 3 to 6, that is, four days in a row, temperature records were recorded , but the average global temperature still did not exceed 17.08 degrees.

An entire city district has been discovered at the bottom of a dried-up Spanish reservoir in Catalonia. Among the relatively preserved buildings are, for example, a small church and the Royal Foundry, dating back to the 17th and 18th centuries, the BBC reports .

The State Duma has adopted a bill according to which military personnel can be arrested for up to 10 days for carrying personal gadgets in a combat zone. This has outraged Z-bloggers and even some parliamentarians. 24 deputies voted against the amendments, 328 voted for them. "There is absolutely no need for empty talk, because, colleagues, those who support and vote for this law, they vote for order, for discipline. The commanders will bow to you at the waist for the fact that we will pass it.