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What's going on today:
- Mama and me. President Biden said Queen Elizabeth reminded him of his mom during a private tea session he held with the queen. The Queen embodied his mother "in terms of the look of her and just the generosity," Biden said, speaking to a pool of reporters before boarding Air Force One for Brussels. The pair discussed Putin and Xi Jinping.
- Makes drinking away your stress look easy. The Great Lake Jumper' dove into icy Lake Michigan every day for a year to clear his mind from the stress of the pandemic"It felt like somewhere where I could go and wipe the day clean and start a new," Dan O'Conor told Insider about his daily plunges.
- Cruises (and cocaine) are back, baby! More than 69 pounds of cocaine bricks worth over $5 million were seized from a Florida cruise liner's cargo. The ship's security team found the cocaine haul in a cargo area, and turned it over to Customs and Border Protection officers at Port Everglades.
- Crisis, oui or non? A French company warned the US of a "imminent radiological threat" at a Chinese nuclear facility. Though Biden's administration said the facility is not at "crisis level," the National Security Council held multiple meetings on the issue, CNN reported.
- Absolutely - and I can't stress this enough - not. NBC halted production of 'Ultimate Slip 'n Slide' after crew members experienced 'explosive diarrhea' on the set. According to The Wrap, at least one person tested positive for giardia, a parasite that can cause diarrheal disease.
That's all for now. See you tomorrow.