The Thai cave rescue saga ended on a high note, with all twelve boys and their coach now freed from the flooded Tham Luang caves in the northern parts of the country. Three days of perilous diving operations and round-the-clock pumping of water ended with the whole football team rescued and the treacherous cave now empty.
Tab Hunter, an icon of his era as a heartthrob on the silver screen, died Sunday night in Santa Barbara in Los Angeles. He was 86 years old when he succumbed to cardiac arrest, according to his long-time partner.
Brazil's Neymar Jr. is still one of the very best when it comes to international-level football, despite a middling performance for this year's FIFA World Cup. Unfortunately for him, people would rather poke fun at his tendency to fall down in pain and roll on the ground, so much that the act has been called doing a "Neymar."
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was hounded by hostile protesters and a group of local Democratic Socialists on his way out of a restaurant on Saturday, July 7. The crowd took him to task for his support for the Trump administration's immigration policies, aside from the occasional insult and alluded threats.
With time nearly running out, the perilous operation to rescue four boys and their coach is now underway to pull them out of a flooded cave in Thailand. Eight of the boys have been extracted so far, with four rescued on Sunday and four again pulled out on the next day, July 9.
The move by the U.S. to relocate its Israel embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem has been hotly debated both before and after the dedication ceremonies, but several countries seem to have seen some merits in doing the same. Guatemala was the first to join the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem earlier this May.
Contingents of the U.S. and Afghan Special Forces have taken the eastern district of Nangarhar, where the main ISIS stronghold in Afghanistan was located. No American or Afghan troops were killed in the offensive despite heavy fighting that resulted in 167 terrorist fighters dead.
Plastic straws, one of the major contributors to plastic waste, is about to become a thing of the past for Starbucks. The coffee shop chain plans to phase out single-use straws from all of its branches worldwide.
The Trump administration has announced on Saturday, July 7, the suspension of billions of dollars' worth payments due to insurers, due to a February court ruling that tossed out the formula for the calculations. Insurance groups now warn of possible insurance market instability that could drive up premiums later this year.
"Ant-Man and the Wasp" may be the tiniest heroes to make it to the big screen, but they emerged as this week's biggest hit with an opening weekend earnings of $76 million in North American sales. Worldwide figures come at an even more impressive $161 million, as well.