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🗳 Californians will vote on whether to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom. This is the second gubernatorial recall election in California — the other one was in 2003, and Arnold Schwarzenegger came out on top.

🇺🇸 Speaking of the recall election, Biden made a trip to the West Coast to stump for Newsom.

🦠 More than 243,000 kids in the US were diagnosed with COVID-19 in the past week, the second-highest week for child cases since the start of the pandemic, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) reported. 

💉 Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida said he'd slap a $5,000 fine on any city or county governments requiring all employees to be vaccinated.

🇯🇵 Takemitsu Takizaki, the founder of the sensor-making manufacturer Keyence, is now Japan's richest person.

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