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| Welcome to Friday, Daily Briefing readers. The unrelenting Tropical Storm Elsa is spurring tornado warnings and the threat of flooding, after leaving a trail of chaos in its wake. In Haiti, two Americans are among the 17 people detained in connection with the shocking assassination of the Caribbean country's president. |
| Congrats to Zaila Avant-garde, 14, who claimed the Scripps National Spelling Bee title, becoming the first African-American winner in the competition's 93-year history. Would you have gotten the winning word right? Test yourself here. 🐝 |
| It's Jane, with Friday's news. |
| 🔴 The death toll rose to 64 and 76 remain people remain unaccounted for, two weeks after a massive condominium building crashed to the ground in Surfside, Florida. |
| 🌧The La Niña climate pattern is forecast to return this fall and last through the winter, federal forecasters reported. So what does this mean for our weather? |
| 🏊♂️U.S. swimmer Michael Andrew became the biggest Olympic name yet to reveal that he has not been vaccinated against the coronavirus. |
| 🏀The Phoenix Suns defeated the Milwaukee Bucks, carried by Giannis Antetokounmpo, 118-108, taking a 2-0 series lead in the NBA Finals. |
| ✍️ How well have you been paying attention to the news this week? Test your knowledge and take our quiz! |
| 🎧 Should you get a vaccine booster shot yet? On today's 5 Things podcast, we explore what companies and health officials are saying. You can listen to the podcast every day on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or on your smart speaker. |
| Here's what's happening today: |
Tropical Storm Elsa slams East Coast, spurs tornado warnings |
| Severe weather from Tropical Storm Elsa spurred tornado warnings in Delaware and New Jersey early Friday as the system moved over the mid-Atlantic states and into the northeastern United States. The unrelenting storm has claimed one life in Florida, injured several people in Georgia and flooded parts of New York City. A tropical storm warning Friday morning stretched along parts of the East Coast from New Jersey to Massachusetts. The tropical storm was expected to cross over the Northeast by the afternoon and move over Atlantic Canada by the night and Saturday. No significant change in strength was expected during the day, and Elsa is forecast to become a post-tropical cyclone by Friday night. |
Two Americans among the detained after Haiti president's assassination |
| Interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph proclaimed a "state of siege" in Haiti , after President Jovenel Moïse was shot to death and his wife wounded during a raid at his home on Wednesday. Joseph made the declaration, which is similar to martial law, as he assumed control of the government despite questions to his claim to power. Authorities said they've taken two Haitian Americans into custody in connection with the assassination. Police sources in the country said 28 mercenaries were involved, according to former Haitian Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe. Seventeen people have been detained, authorities said. Léon Charles, head of Haiti's National Police, said 15 of the detainees were from Colombia and that eight suspects were still on the run. |
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| 🔵"Knew me for all the wrong reasons": 77-year-old icon Danny Trejo opens up about his life in a new memoir, "Trejo: My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood." |
| 🌏Did you feel it? A magnitude 5.9 earthquake shook the California-Nevada border Thursday, with people reporting feeling a jolt hundreds of miles away. |
| 🚐"We've been nomads for almost a year," writes USA TODAY'S Ashley Shaffer. Here's what she's learned about taking an extended road trip. |
| 📺"Nearly impossible to replicate successfully": HBO Max's "Gossip Girl" reboot just premiered and our TV critic Kelly Lawler thinks it should have stayed dead. Ouch. Still want to watch it? Reviewed explains how. |
 | | "Gossip Girl" is not giving what it was supposed to give, according to our TV critic. | | USA TODAY | |
'Permission to Dance': BTS releases new single co-written with Ed Sheeran |
| BTS fans no longer need to wait for "Permission to Dance," the South Korean boy band's latest single released Friday. This is their third song written entirely in English, following 2020's "Dynamite" and "Butter," which dropped earlier this year. Ed Sheeran, Steve Mac, Jenna Andrews and Snow Patrol's Johnny McDaid co-wrote the song. The band will also be dropping a CD which includes four tracks: "Butter," "Permission to Dance," "Butter (Instrumental) and "Permission to Dance (Instrumental)." |
Dodgers star remains on leave amid assault investigation |
| Major League Baseball extended Trevor Bauer's administrative leave for one more week effective Friday as an investigation continues into a woman's allegation that he sexually assaulted her. The league initially placed the 30-year-old Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher on leave for seven days on July 2. The accuser, a San Diego woman, said Bauer punched multiple parts of her body and choked her with her hair to the point that she lost consciousness during the alleged attack. Bauer, through his co-agent Jon Fetterolf, has claimed that the two sexual encounters between him and the woman were consensual. |
ICYMI: Some of our top stories yesterday |
| 🔵'America's Got Talent': Simon Cowell broke the show's rules so a 9-year-old opera singer could make history. |
| 🔵Princess Latifa of Dubai's escape plan was dashed in 2018, but how her father found her was a mystery. USA TODAY found out the FBI helped. |
| 🔵The NABJ expressed "outrage" over a recent New York Times report that uncovered "a toxic ESPN culture that appears to promote bias." |
| 🔵 A booster shot of the COVID-19 vaccine made by Pfizer and BioNTech strongly extends protection, a study from the companies shows, and they're developing a vaccine targeted directly at the Delta variant. |
Marvel's 'Black Widow' premieres in theaters, on Disney+ Premier Access |
| "Black Widow" premieres Friday morning on Disney+ Premier Access and in theaters. It's the first Marvel film released since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. USA TODAY critic Brian Truitt describes the solo superhero effort as "both timely and also way too late," finally doing justice to Johansson's secret Avenger."Black Widow" will be available on Premier Access for about three months until it becomes available for all Disney Plus subscribers on Oct. 6. |
📸 Spellers vie for the top prize at the Scripps National Spelling Bee Finals 📸 |
 | | Zaila Avant-garde, 14, from Harvey, Louisiana celebrates with the championship trophy after winning the finals of the 2021 Scripps National Spelling Bee at Disney World Thursday, July 8, 2021, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. | | John Raoux, AP | |
| Who's the best speller of them all? That would be Zaila Avant-garde, 14, from Harvey, Louisiana, who prevailed in the final round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee by correctly spelling the word "Murraya." If you don't know what that is, it's a genus of tropical Asiatic and Australian trees having pinnate leaves and flowers. Check out our gallery of photos from the event. |
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| Contributing: The Associated Press |
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