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I've just signed the Executive Order extending the Deadline for the TikTok closing for 90 days (September 17, 2025).— President Trump announced the extension of the TikTok closure deadline on Truth Social.

If they win it, they will be idolised. Napoli is a real hotbed of football. In Naples, you just support Napoli.

— Joe Jordan, a Scotland legend who played for AC Milan, said this before the game.

Biden was grossly incompetent, and the 2020 election was a total FRAUD! The evidence is MASSIVE and OVERWHELMING.

— Donald Trump posted on Truth Social calling for a special prosecutor regarding the 2020 election.

I don't really think about competitors. I just think about making the product as perfect as possible.— Elon Musk on his robotaxi venture.

Too many non-working holidays in America. It is costing our Country $BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to keep all of these businesses closed.

— President Donald Trump stated in a Truth Social post on Juneteenth, a newly designated federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States.

I just felt like I needed to do it.

— Nezza, a performer who sang a version of the national anthem in Spanish and explained why she disobeyed the order to sing in English.

This is not just a leak—it’s a blueprint for mass exploitation.— Researchers warned about the consequences of the data breach affecting over 16 billion login credentials.

Hello Bluesky, I was told that this app has become the go-to place for political discussions and analyses with common sense.

— JD Vance stated in his first post on Bluesky.

Social media companies like X are 'cesspools of hate speech' and the law does not violate the First Amendment.— The two New York state lawmakers who sponsored the Stop Hiding Hate Act stated on Tuesday.

We are ready to support any constructive initiatives to advance peace and cooperation.

— President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan emphasized Türkiye's readiness to support constructive initiatives aimed at fostering peace and cooperation.

I don’t think you should ever regret telling the truth. And I don’t.— Terry Moran in a recent interview with The New York Times regarding his social media post that led to his dismissal from ABC News.

This policy makes a censor of every consular officer, and it will inevitably chill legitimate political speech both inside and outside the United States.

— Jameel Jaffer, executive director at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, discussing the new policy from the State Department.

Stay strong and we will win.

— Reza Pahlavi, the son of the last shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, tells Iranians.

The escalation of hostilities between Israel and Iran is putting health facilities and access to health care at risk. The reports on the attacks on health so far are appalling.

— World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus condemned the attacks on health facilities in the conflict between Iran and Israel.

He had more guts and balls than you because he said, I'm not going to send in a uniformed military to do something that I know in my gut isn't right ... You're pooh-poohing this.— Senator Elissa Slotkin during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.