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United States Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle testifies before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee during a hearing at the Rayburn House Office Building on July 22, 2024 in Washington, DC. U.S. Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned Tuesday amid widespread outrage over her agency's failure to prevent the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania campaign rally earlier this month.

Cheatle rejected calls at that hearing to resign, saying she was the best-qualified person to head the Secret Service, which is responsible for protecting the president, vice president, their family members and leading presidential candidates.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas appointed Secret Service Deputy Director Ronald Rowe to serve as acting director for the agency until a permanent director is selected by President Joe Biden. »

Sharks off Brazil coast test positive for cocaine.

Sharks off the coast of Brazil have tested positive for cocaine, scientists say.

The research, carried out by the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, is the first to find the presence of cocaine in sharks. »

Various Palestinian factions, including rivals Hamas and Fatah, agreed to end their divisions and form a national unity government during negotiations in China that ended Tuesday, according to Chinese state media.

Senior Hamas official Hussam Badran said the most important point of the Beijing Declaration was to form a Palestinian national unity government to manage the affairs of Palestinians.

The long-feuding Palestinian factions previously failed to heal their political disputes after Hamas fighters expelled Fatah from Gaza in a short war in 2007. »

Developing a vaccine for HIV has long been a top priority in infectious disease research, but it’s proven difficult.

The drive for new and improved HIV treatments aims to help as many people as possible achieve this undetectable status.

“Right now, Gilead, lenacapavir is priced for rich countries – this inequality never served us well in HIV response.”. »