At least 22 people have been killed in historic floods that ravaged the central portion of Tennessee on Sunday. In addition to those who lost their lives, dozens of people are still missing and at least 60 people have been injured in what is now the deadliest flood in Middle Tennessee history.
Israeli fighter jets bombed four Hamas weapons sites on Sunday in response to violent protests that erupted along the Gaza border.
The US State Department was the target of a substantial cyberattack in recent weeks according to Fox News reporter Jacqui Heinrich via Twitter thread. The State Department released a statement saying that,
The Department takes seriously its responsibility to safeguard its information and continuously takes steps to ensure information is protected. For security reasons, we are not in a position to discuss the nature or scope of any alleged cybersecurity incidents at this time.
The State Department went on to say that their normal operations or critical involvement with the situation and evacuation in Afghanistan have not been impacted.
In the 6th inning of the Tigers’ Sunday afternoon contest against the Toronto Blue Jays, Cabrera blasted a 1-1 pitch off Blue Jays pitcher Steve Matz over the right-center-center field wall at Rogers Centre in Toronto.
Since taking power in Afghanistan the Taliban have substantially increased their propaganda and international advertising seeking to cement support at home and acknowledgment internationally. To this end one of the Taliban’s elite units known as Badri 313 Battalion recently released a video as well as a number of pictures where they are seen mocking the US. In fact, one of their pictures appears to be a copy of the famous Iwo Jima flag photo from World War II.
Five year old Harvey Sutton has completed hiking the Appalachian Trail with his parents in 209 days. He is the youngest person to complete the trail in a continues hike and the second youngest person to complete the trail at all. The historic and beautiful Appalachian Trail stretches 2,193 miles from Springer Mountain, Georgia to Katadhin, Maine.
Tropical Storm Henri made landfall in Rhode Island at approximately 12:15 p.m. on Sunday. The storm had been traveling up the East Coast over the past several days, though there was much uncertainty of where exactly it would hit until right before the epicenter hit the small New England state.
An Israeli tour guide discovered a mass of 1,700 year old coins while camping near the coastal town of Atlit, Israel.
Greece has finished construction of a wall and other security measures along its border with Turkey in order to prevent the anticipated surge of Afghan migrants and refuges from entering Greece and the rest of Europe. European Union countries are concerned that the events in Afghanistan will result in a similar situation to the 2015 refuge crisis in and throughout Europe. During that time Greece functioned as the gateway to Europe for the flood of refuges and so it is taking preventative steps from letting that happen again.
A treatment is promising if the tumor shrinks or if it lowers metabolic activity against control groups.
