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ReutersFour American college instructors were injured in a stabbing attack in a park in China on Monday, officials say.The educators from Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, were hurt in the northeast Jilin province as they participated in a partnership program with the local Beihua University, according to the college. China’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday described the incident as a random attack, according to Reuters.“We have been in contact with all four instructors and are assisting them during this time,” Cornell College President Jonathan Brand said in a statement to CNN. He said no students from the small liberal arts school were taking part in the program.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Adam Gray/AFP via GettyA senior investment banker has been accused of being the man in a viral video appearing to punch a woman in front of shocked onlookers in Brooklyn over the weekend.The clip on X, viewed more than 10 million times as of Monday morning, shows the woman falling to the ground after being struck in the face. The man, who walks off after the apparent assault, is wearing a jacket that appears to have some kind of wet substance down its back.Text on the video reads: “This guy punched me in the face today and broke my nose and busted up my friends arm can anyone find him?”Read more at The Daily Beast.

KATU News/YouTubeAt least three people were injured Saturday night when a rodeo bull jumped over the arena fence and charged at terrified attendees before it was caught by wranglers.The dramatic incident was caught on spectators’ cellphone videos at the 84th Sisters Rodeo in the city of Sisters, Oregon. The crowd was singing along to Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the U.S.A.” when the bull hopped the fence, prompting screams from the stands as attendees fled for their lives.One clip shared on social media shows the bull rampaging through a concession area and into a parking lot, violently colliding with a woman along the way. The victim is brutally tossed into the air and repeatedly hit by the bull’s horns before crashing to the ground, with horrified witnesses quickly rushing to her aid.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Brandon Bell/GettyDonald Trump on Sunday called for President Joe Biden to take down an attack ad featuring a series of quotes attributed to the Republican in which he mocks dead soldiers.The former president’s demand came on the same day that Biden honored fallen troops in a visit to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in France, the burial ground that Trump chose not to visit in 2018 and was later reported to have done so while describing the site as “filled with losers.” Trump has denied making the remark—and another in which he allegedly called more than 1,800 Marines “suckers” for being killed—ever since The Atlantic first published his purported words in 2020.Those denials continued Sunday, first at a rally in Las Vegas. “He said I stood over graves of soldiers and I said: ‘These people are suckers and losers, the dead soldiers from World War I,’’ Trump said, referring to Biden. He went on to claim the whole episode was “made up” and, despite the Biden campaign knowing it’s “phony,” they still “took an ad using it—these are sick people.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Andrew MAtthews/AFP via Getty ImagesBritish Prime Minister Rishi Suank apologized Friday after he decided to skip an international event commemorating the 80th anniversary of D-Day in France so he could record a television interview instead.The rightwing leader did attend a ceremony honoring fallen British troops in Normandy but then missed a larger gathering of heads of state at Omaha beach on Thursday afternoon. ITV News’ U.K. Editor Paul Brand confirmed in the evening that Sunak had returned to Britain early in order to film an interview with him, adding that the network hadn’t asked Sunak to do so and they “don’t know why” that was when the prime minister chose to make time available for the recording.The revelation sparked uproar, in turn prompting Sunak to release a groveling apology statement early Friday.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Gil Cohen-Magen/ReutersIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to address a joint meeting of Congress on July 24 during a visit to Washington, D.C., Republican leaders announced Thursday.House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a statement that the address would allow Netanyahu to “share the Israeli government’s vision for defending their democracy, combatting terror, and establishing just and lasting peace in the region.” In accepting the invitation, Netanyahu said he was “very moved” and would “present the truth about our just war against those who seek to destroy us to the representatives of the American people and the entire world.”The address will undoubtedly prove controversial amid mounting international criticism of the manner in which Netanyahu is prosecuting his war with Hamas in Gaza. His arrival in the U.S. also comes after tensions with President Joe Biden, who has largely supported Israel’s war but has recently criticized Netanyahu’s strategy and halted shipments of certain munitions.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Jordan Pettitt/AFP via Getty ImagesPrince William filled in for his father King Charles III Thursday at a large international ceremony commemorating the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings amid the sovereign’s ongoing cancer battle.As The Daily Beast previously reported, royal sources said a decision had been made for Charles to skip the large event in Normandy attended by other heads of state—including President Joe Biden—in order to “protect” his “continued recovery.” William instead deputized for the king for the event at Omaha Beach.Despite missing the international event, Charles did attend a ceremony earlier in the day honoring the British troops killed during the Battle of Normandy. At the British Normandy Memorial, which overlooks beaches where British soldiers landed during World War II, Charles wore full military uniform as he spoke about the importance of remembering their sacrifice.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Tayfun Cokun/Anadolu via GettyPro-Palestinian protesters occupied the office of Stanford University’s president on Wednesday morning, saying they wouldn’t leave until certain demands are met relating to what they say is the school’s complicity in genocide in Gaza.A group made up of Stanford students and alumni released a statement saying they had entered Stanford president Richard Saller’s office at around 6 a.m. and barricaded themselves inside. They said the action came as a “direct consequence” of school administrators “refusing to engage” with peaceful protesters’ demands.“We refuse to leave until Stanford Administration and the Stanford Board of Trustees meet our demands and take action to address their role in enabling and profiting from the ongoing genocide in Gaza,” the group, Liberate Stanford, wrote in an Instagram post.Read more at The Daily Beast.

Gary Todd/Wikimedia CommonsAt over 1,000 feet tall, Yuntai Falls is revered as the highest waterfall in China. It turns out that, at the moment, it’s really more of a water feature.Video recorded by a hiker in the Yuntai Mountain scenic area in Henan province showed water gushing out of pipes at the top of the falls, artificially creating the flow cascading over the precipice. As social media users flooded in with questions about the apparent deception, park officials released a statement Tuesday to clear things up.“Depending on the season, I cannot guarantee that I am in my best condition whenever my friends come to see me,” the statement, written from the waterfall’s perspective, said, according to a translation from The Washington Post. “To make your experience of the journey more complete and to make you feel that it’s a worthwhile trip, I underwent a small enhancement so that I could meet my friends in better shape in the dry season.”Read more at The Daily Beast.

Barry Williams/New York Daily News via Getty ImagesThe website for the Columbia Law Review was taken down Monday by its board of directors after editors published a lengthy article by a Palestinian human rights lawyer accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza.The journal’s student editors say the board—which consists of faculty and alumni from Columbia University’s law school—had pressured them to delay publication of the piece. When the editors decided to publish anyway, the site was shut down.As of early Wednesday, the homepage for the site only displays a message saying: “Website is under maintenance.”Read more at The Daily Beast.