| |  |  | The Reuters Daily Briefing | Thursday, June 10, 2021 by Linda Noakes | Hello Here's what you need to know. The wife of drug kingpin 'El Chapo' prepares to plead guilty, the 'meme stock' roller-coaster ride continues, and Argentina's president triggers a Twitter storm | | | | | Today's biggest stories  President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden arrive at at Cornwall Airport Newquay, Britain, June 9, 2021 U.S. A bipartisan group of 10 senators is trying to craft a plan to revitalize U.S. roads and bridges without tax hikes, lawmakers said, though some of President Joe Biden's fellow Democrats fretted that such an approach on infrastructure legislation would fail.
We take a look at how Biden's ambitions on infrastructure, voting, and guns have hit the Washington buzz saw.
On his first trip abroad since taking office in January, Biden meets British Prime Minister Boris Johnson today in the English seaside resort of Carbis Bay ahead of a Friday-Sunday G7 summit, a NATO summit on Monday, a U.S.-EU summit on Tuesday and a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Geneva the following day.
The wife of Mexican drug lord Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, Emma Coronel Aispuro, is due to plead guilty in Washington, where she has been accused of helping her husband run the Sinaloa cartel of smugglers, court records show.
The reservoir created by Hoover Dam, an engineering marvel that symbolized the American ascendance of the 20th Century, has sunk to its lowest level ever, underscoring the gravity of the extreme drought across the U.S. West.
|  Israeli navy submarine Leviathan in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Haifa, northern Israel, June 9, 2021 WORLD When fighting erupted in Gaza last month and rockets rained on Israel, the men operating its navy submarine Leviathan knew next to nothing. "We are by definition clandestine and, to a degree, isolated at sea. Our performance depends on our focus," a senior navy officer told Reuters aboard Leviathan during a training run, in the first such foreign media access to the vessels.
An Indian state has raised its COVID-19 death toll sharply after the discovery of thousands of unreported cases, lending weight to suspicion that India’s overall death tally is significantly more than the official figure.
Snatched up in cattle carts and by bus, tens of thousands of indigenous children taken to Canadian residential schools run mostly by the Catholic Church lived a “paramilitary” lifestyle, waking early to pray, waiting rigidly in lines and enduring regular beatings, survivors said.
Argentine President Alberto Fernandez triggered a Twitter storm and a regional race debate with comments to visiting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez that sought to play up the South American country's ties with Europe. "The Mexicans came from the Indians, the Brazilians came from the jungle, but we Argentines came from the ships," Fernandez said.
| | | | | | | Video of the day  Salt erosion decaying world's oldest cave painting Experts are racing against time to find ways to preserve the painting dated to nearly 44,000 years ago. | | | Thanks for spending part of your day with us. | | | | | |
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