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No opening statements, 45 seconds for closing statement, one minute to answer a question and 30 seconds for follow-ups: these the announced rules for Republican primary elections debates starting this week

The deadliest fire in over 100 years in the US, with at least 110 victims, has devastated the town of Lahaina on Maui island; Hawaii, the US state at highest risk of natural disasters from eruptions to floods to fires, has seen an increase in accidents

Donald Trump leads among the likely Republican primary electorate, with 54% of the vote, according to a poll conducted by The New York Times and Siena College from July 23 to 27, 2023

Elon Musk has begun replacing Twitter’s iconic logo with the letter X; he made the surprise announcement tweeting “adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds” after disclosing earlier this month Twitter's negative cash flow and -50% in adv

The last of the country’s declared chemical weapons stockpile has been destroyed, President Joe Biden said, thus ending a decades-long effort to eliminate the deadly weapons first used on a large scale in WWI

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that a web designer who designs wedding websites can refuse to work for same-sex couples; one of the court’s liberal justices wrote in a dissent, affirming the decision would bring along other discrimination

Maryland followed Maine and Vermont to become the first three states to have eliminated all time limits on lawsuits for crimes of child sexual abuse; advocates say momentum is growing for completely removing the statute of limitations for such crimes

Donald Trump has been indicted on charges of mishandling classified documents at his Florida estate, a development that makes him the first former president in U.S. history to face criminal charges by the federal government that he once oversaw

The Pentagon has overestimated the value of weapons sent to Ukraine by at least $3 billion; this accounting error could allow the Defense Department to send more weapons without asking Congress for more budget

1.500 active-duty troops will be sent to the USA-Mexico border from next week, in view of an expected migrant surge following the end of pandemic-era restrictions

15 million people could lose Medicaid coverage; one moth after Covid safety net was dropped on March 31st, states are starting to disenroll people from Medicaid program if they no longer meet pre-pandemic eligibility requirements, mostly based on income