Bolts of lightning shoot UPWARDS into the night sky in stunning slow-motion footage captured by US storm chaser ⚡️

California police officer is hailed a hero after saving a choking nine-month-old baby girl in dramatic bodycam footage 👮🏻‍♂️

In a statement on Monday President Donald Trump announced that the United States is designating Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a foreign "terrorist organization", marking the first time Washington has formally labeled another country's military a "terrorist group".

Trump said that the designation "recognizes the reality that Iran is not only a State Sponsor of Terrorism, but that the IRGC actively participates in, finances, and promotes terrorism as a tool of statecraft".

https://usareally.com/2955-iran-designates-us-as-world-leader-of-terrorism?utm_source=telegram

Furious Theresa May says Britain would already be out of the EU if not for her MPs failing to back Brexit as she faces humiliation at the hands EU leaders who are set to force a year-long delay tonight

The effort is essentially working to capture a silhouette of a black hole, also commonly referred to as the black hole’s shadow. This would be ‘its dark shape on a bright background of light coming from the surrounding matter, deformed by a strong spacetime curvature,’ the ETH team explains. #science

This motorcycle can transform into a flying vehicle. #future

80-year-old New York man arrested on charges he killed 2 young women in Virginia Beach in 1973

An 80-year-old #NY man has been arrested on charges that he killed two young women in a beach cottage nearly half a century ago in Virginia, police said Tuesday. Ernest Broadnax was arrested in #NYC on Monday and faces two counts of second-degree murder and one count of rape in #VirginiaBeach. The slayings occurred in the summer of 1973.

Virginia Beach police did not say how they linked Broadnax to the killings. They said their cold-case unit began to pursue a “strong lead” last year and sought out “advanced forensic technology.” Broadnax, who lives in #Queens borough, is waiting to go through extradition in New York, police said. It’s unclear if he has an attorney. For decades, the case haunted the coastal city in Virginia and the officers who launched the investigation.

U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) wipes tears from her eye as she speaks about Trump administration policies towards Muslim immigrants at a news conference by members of Congress "to announce legislation to repeal President Trump's existing executive order blocking travel from majority Muslim countries" outside the Capitol in Washington.

Kids row on a styrofoam block through a flooded street during heavy rains in the Guaratiba neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo testifies, as protesters raise signs behind him, before a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Manchester City's Riyad Mahrez in action against Tottenham Hotspur in London.

Police officers use water cannon to disperse people protesting after parliament appointed upper house chairman Abdelkader Bensalah as interim president following the resignation of Abdelaziz Bouteflika in Algiers, Algeria.

A U.S. Border Patrol agent apprehends undocumented migrants after they illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border in Mission, Texas.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio speaks during a news conference declaring a public health emergency in parts of Brooklyn in response to a measles outbreak, requiring unvaccinated people living in the affected areas to get the vaccine or face fines, in the Orthodox Jewish community of the Williamsburg neighborhood, in Brooklyn.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr testifies on the Justice Department s budget proposal before a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Theresa and Angela share a blue joke: Leaders guffaw 'at iPad comparison of their similar outfits' – but body language expert claims May was 'laughing like you laugh at your boss's dog photos' to win over Merkel 😂 #facepalm

The Lion King first look: Simba is confronted in the elephant graveyard as Scar makes menacing first appearance in haunting full trailer for live action epic

The haunting new trailer for the live action version of The Lion King has dropped. Fans of the Disney classic were treated to a dramatic 1 minute 50 second look at the film, due to be released on July 19.