The coalition urged the Biden administration to ease entry restrictions imposed last year during the pandemic by July 15, and to lift entry restrictions on UK travelers.

Angels pitcher Shohei Ohtani is performing in a league of his own as an incredibly dominate dual threat who is putting up ridiculous numbers both defensively and offensively. In fact, Ohtani is performing so well that baseball analysts and fans are comparing him to one of the greatest baseball players of all time – Babe Ruth.

Last week, the American Christian college ministry InterVarsity released a poll on the social issues that are most important to its members.  The ministry is one of the largest of its kind in the United States. According to its own claims, InterVarsity has over 1,100 campus groups on over 700 college campuses.  316 InterVarsity members from roughly 127 various institutions were polled during the months of May and June of 2021.

The private space race between billionaires Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos will come to and end this month as Branson has announced that he will be the first of the two men to reach suborbital space. Bezos is scheduled to be a passenger on his Blue Origin New Shepard ship into suborbital space on July 20, but Branson announced on Twitter that he will be taking his Virgin Galactic VSS Unity ship into suborbital space on July 11.

Zaila Avant-garde, 14, won the 90-year-old Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday by correctly spelling ‘Murraya,’ a genus of plants, staying cool after a near miss with a botanical word in a previous round.

The Delta variant is more easily transmitted than earlier versions of the coronavirus and can impact the ability of antibodies to bind to the virus, but there is little data on its potential to cause severe disease.

California Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a regional state of emergency for parts of California experiencing historically high temperatures and extreme drought. Newsom is also asking Californians to reduce their water usage by 15%, as fears of severe water shortages mount throughout the state.