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PH EARNS 4 OLYMPIC MEDALS! #PHI  boxer Carlo Paalam is now secured of at least a bronze medal in the #Olympics  after winning in men's flyweight quarterfinals against Uzbekistan. #Tokyo2020  PH delegation surpasses previous highest 3 medal haul during the 1932 Summer Olympics.

Covid tests per million population: Kerala tops, Rajasthan at bottom With the recent uptick in Covid cases, the focus is again on whether states are testing enough to detect cases well in time. Read:

@chiproytx 's contacts say Border Patrol agents were told to 'abandon' regular operations due to overwhelming migrant crossing numbers, the Texas Rep. tells @JennPellegrino  and @CortesSteve . "We're not really having any true policing of our border."

The IMF approves the biggest resource injection in its history: $650 billion meant to help nations deal with the Covid-19 pandemic

Here are the top 5 prizes awarded by nations to their winning Olympic athletes 🥇

TO THE RESCUE: NOAA officials say the captain and crew of a nearby vessel used a seawater pump to help save a 13-year-old whale that became stranded near Prince of Wales Island in Alaska.

The China Model: This is what the country’s tech crackdown is really about (via @BW )

Greenland lost enough ice to cover all of Florida in 2 inches of water… in a single day

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is seeking to speed up consideration of the nearly $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package, urging votes on amendments. GOP senators caution that they need time to digest the 2,700-page bill.

Alliant, a digital-only lender with $14 billion in assets, is eliminating both overdraft and non-sufficient fund fees effective Monday. It says it's the largest credit union and second-largest financial institution to say goodbye to the fees.