U.S. President Joe Biden ended his reelection campaign on Sunday after fellow Democrats lost faith in his mental acuity and ability to beat Donald Trump, but did not immediately endorse Vice President Kamal Harris to replace him as candidate. | Biden, 81, in a post on X, said he will remain in his role as president and commander-in-chief until his term ends in January 2025 and will address the nation this week. ● "It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President. And while it has been my intention to seek reelection, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely on fulfilling my duties as President for the remainder of my term," Biden wrote. ● His move could clear the way for Harris to run at the top of the ticket, the first Black woman to do so in the country's history. But Biden did not mention her in his announcement. ● It was unclear whether other senior Democrats would challenge Harris for the party's nomination, who was widely seen as the pick for many party officials - or whether the party itself would choose to open the field for nominations. ● Biden's announcement follows a wave of public and private pressure from Democratic lawmakers and party officials to quit the race after his shockingly poor performance in a June 27 televised debate last month against Republican rival Trump, 78.

■ My Fellow Americans (Joe Biden)(Twitter)
■ Biden ends his presidential re-election campaign (UPI)
■ BREAKING: Joe Biden Drops Out of 2024 Race (Townhall)

Record level data on doses, dates and deaths in relation to ten million people from the Czech Rrepublic has now been released by @stkirsch. It shows that the Moderna vaccine is 50% more deadly than the Pfizer.
Steve's full analysis here: https://t.co/DWLwMWeMGY pic.twitter.com/tssOHNN5zp

— Andrew Bridgen (@ABridgen) July 17, 2024

Patrick Delaney | A number of pro-freedom health experts, including former Pfizer VP Dr. Michael Yeadon, are now questioning not only the existence of COVID-19, but of viruses entirely. | In a June 20 interview with Tucker Carlson, Scottish television presenter and author Neil Oliver mentioned that he was “not persuaded” there was any such thing as a COVID-19 virus circulating in the population since 2019 and 2020, explaining that in his judgment, based on hospital bed and death statistics, there was “no pandemic,” but rather “a pandemic of propaganda, a pandemic of lies and a pandemic of [false PCR] testing.” ■ Yet he and others may be surprised to learn that many scientists have asserted they have proof he is correct that no such SARS-CoV-2 virus even exists, and further, they argue, with compelling confidence and detailed demonstrations, that there is actually no proof viruses exist at all and that virology itself is a “pseudoscience.”

👉 Former Pfizer VP: Why evidence is lacking for the existence of COVID-19 ‘virus’ or any other (Life Site News)

Authorities found drone, related equipment in Crooks' vehicle, according to senior law enforcement source | The man who shot former US President Donald Trump in the ear during a rally in Pennsylvania flew a drone over the rally site just hours before Trump appeared on stage, according to NBC news. The drone, reportedly a DJI model, provided the 20-year-old gunman, Thomas Crooks, an aerial perspective that may have aided in planning the attack. [...] Initial reports on the use of the drone were first made public by The Wall Street Journal.

■ US Secret Service Says Rejected Requests to Strengthen Trump's Security (Sputnik News)
■ RUMOR: Secret Service Boss to RESIGN Monday (Hal Turner Show)

The Saudi Ministry of Defense has reacted to the reports released by Israeli media sources regarding the country's alleged involvement in the Zionist regime's attack on Yemen last night. | Reacting to the claims, Defense Ministry spokesman Brigadier General Turki al-Maliki said on Sunday that his country did not participate in the Israeli raids targeting the Yemeni city of Hodeidah on Saturday. He further stressed that Saudi Arabia would not allow any party to violate its airspace. ● Israeli war jets launched a series of airstrikes on Saturday targeting Yemen's province of Hodeidah on the Red Sea coast. The aggression targeted an oil refinery, leading to a massive fire that can be seen kilometers away. ● After the Israeli attack on Yemeni soil, the spokesperson of the Arab country's Army Yahya Saree said that Yemeni armed forces would not hesitate to retaliate the Israeli strikes on Hudaydah Port.

■ UN warns of escalation risk after Israeli attacks on Yemen (TRT World)
■ Cairo Says Concerned About Israeli Airstrikes on Yemen’s Hudaydah (Sputnik News)
■ Israeli attack against Yemen signals ‘dangerous’ new phase: Hezbollah (Anadolu)
■ Yemen successfully hits occupied Eilat, US ship in Red Sea (Mehr News Agency) | Local sources reported a massive explosion in the Israeli-occupied Eilat early on Sunday. Zionist media sources reported that alarm sirens sounded after a loud explosion was heard in Eilat. The incident occurred just hours after the Israeli regime attacked Yemen's Al-Hudaydah Port.

Washington and London have launched dozens of airstrikes inside Yemen without congressional or parliamentary approval | The commander of US Central Command (CENTCOM), General Michael Erik Kurilla, has urged authorities in Washington to take a more forceful approach against Yemen, saying current efforts to deter the nation’s pro-Palestine operations are “failing.” ● In a private letter addressed to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Kurilla calls for a “stepped-up ‘whole of government’ effort against the Houthis, employing economic, diplomatic, and potentially military pressure to discourage attacks on ships in the Red Sea,” according to officials who spoke with the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).

The antivirus platform has acknowledged that a bug in an update was to blame for Friday’s global Windows 10 outage | SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk has revealed that his companies have stopped using web/cloud-based antivirus platform CrowdStrike, following Friday’s global Windows 10 outage. ● The controversial cyber-security firm has admitted that the massive failures were caused by a recent update it instigated that conflicted with Microsoft systems. ● The IT meltdown affected Windows 10 users around the world, including airports, banks, and broadcasters. According to aviation analytics firm Cirium, at least 4,295 flights were grounded globally due to the outage. The worldwide glitch also hit a number of media outlets, including the UK-based Sky News – which went off the air for a while – as well as the Australian-based ABC, SBS, Channel 7, Channel 9, and News Corp Australia. ● Responding to a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Friday, Musk wrote: “We just deleted Crowdstrike from all our systems.”

■ Microsoft IT outage latest: Security firm Crowdstrike finds cause of global IT 'disaster' - as cyber attack ruled out (07/19/24)

The head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways (RAI) Seyed Miad Salehi announced that Russia's coal was exported to India through Iran's railway for the first time. | The head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Railways (RAI) wrote on his social media account on Saturday that 7 freight wagons containing 9,500 tons of Russia's coal were exported to India through Iran's railway track in the last 40 days for the first time in the history of the railway. He also expressed hope that according to the president-elect Masoud Pezeshkian's recent note and according to his emphasis on cooperation with neighbors, China, and Russia, the country's transit would increase continuously. ● Russia has for the first time sent two trains laden with coal to India via the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC), which connects Russia to India via Iran, according to a statement by Russia’s national railway company. A multimodal route that includes a railway, roadway network, and seaports, the INSTC spans 7,200km (4,500 miles) from St. Petersburg to the port of Mumbai in India.

■ US warns India against deepening Russia ties (RT.com) []