As the global pandemic has shifted a significant part of our social life into the virtual space, awkward incidents have brought some joy to routine weekdays, but negligence could entail unpleasant consequences.

Soon after Democratic US President Joe Biden was sworn in, the US-Mexico border saw an unprecedented amount of migrants trying to enter the United States in search of a better life, apparently inspired by the Biden administration's softer immigration policy.

Latest figures released by Johns Hopkins University reveal the daily US COVID-19 case count is on the decline, as the nationwide positivity ratio - currently at 3.82% - is also experiencing a downfall. However, reports indicate that states Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Texas and California are still recording spikes in their daily case counts.

The Twitter team behind new "prompts" to users over replies that its artificial intelligence moderator has deemed offensive said they were so effective that it caused a third of users to either edit or delete their posts.

Earlier in the week, a video emerged showing a Los Angeles woman verbally abusing a police office, calling him "murderer" and a "Mexican racist" who "wants to be white." The officer was rebuking her for using her cell phone while driving.

Facebook's independent Oversight Board on Wednesday upheld the social media platform's decision to restrict then-US President Donald Trump's posting privileges on January 7 - one day after the Capitol riot. Facebook has six months to review the suspension and put forward a response consistent with rules applied to other users of the platform.

Earlier, the US multibillionaire entrepreneur and Microsoft founder, Bill Gates, and his wife announced a break up after almost three decades of marriage. The divorce proceedings are expected to become some of the most pricy in the world, as they could split up a fortune of around $145 billion, according to Bloomberg estimates.

Family planning and changing social mores have given American women the option to delay or avoid childbirth if they so desire, resulting in motherhood beginning in later and later years and yielding fewer children. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has helped push that decline to historic lows.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Deportations of illegal immigrants from the United States in the month of April fell by more than 50 percent, to the lowest monthly level ever recorded, enforcement data collected by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) revealed on Wednesday.

On the same day, Trump predicted Cheney's failure to be re-elected for a new term in the House following her decision to vote in favour of impeaching the then US president.

The United States routinely sends warships to the South China Sea and to the Taiwan Strait under the pretext of freedom of navigation missions despite opposition from Beijing, which considers Taiwan a part of its territory.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The Biden administration supports waiving intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines due to the global emergency triggered by the pandemic, US Trade Representative Katherine Tai said Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The Atlanta officer who fatally shot Black man Rayshard Brooks last June got his job back but will remain on administrative leave, the city's police department said on Wednesday.

Earlier, reports surfaced detailing that the ban imposed against former US President Donald Trump by social media giant Facebook would remain in place. The announcement was made by Facebook's oversight board.

The arrangement is seen as a way to cut delays and red tape at EU borders which so far act as a barrier to foreign troops if they want to redeploy to another part of the bloc – for example, closer to Russia's borders.

Earlier in the day, Facebook's Oversight Board decided to uphold a ban on Donald Trump's account on the social media platform that was introduced in January following the Capitol riot.

The new rhetoric in the CIA's recruitment video sparked a spate of ridicule online as netizens started to wonder why the agency would suddenly start appealing to the so-called "progressives" in American society in its ads.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Americans came close to a perfect 50-50 split on whether they support or oppose former President Donald Trump’s permanent removal from Facebook and other social media platforms, a new PEW Research Center poll revealed on Wednesday.

No Republican senator will vote for Joe Biden's $4 trillion infrastructure and climate plan, according to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. What will the Democratic Party do next and how may the stalled landmark proposal backfire upon it in 2022?

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – A test launch of an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile Minuteman III failed and the cause is unknown and being investigated, the US Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC) said on Wednesday.