⚡️Depeche Mode founding member and keyboard player, Andy Fletcher, has died at the age of 60

🚗⛽️Memorial Day travel is expected to be up this year as millions of people take to the roads, rails, and the sky.

"People are already traveling. They are starting a couple of weeks ahead of schedule. We are going to see more people this year in comparison to last year and we are almost at pre-pandemic levels," said the American Automobile Association (AAA), Central Penn Public Relations Managers Doni Lee Spiegel.


The average gas price in the U.S. on Thursday was $4.60 per gallon, according to AAA figures. In California, it has topped $6. The soaring price of gasoline largely stems from a shortage of crude oil due to sanctions placed on Russian energy and oil-producing nations' inability to increase production.

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⚡️🇷🇺🇨🇳 China and Russia on Thursday vetoed the US-sponsored UNSC resolution to impose additional restrictive measures on North Korea

🕺🕺The famous Asian K-pop group RM will meet with President Biden to discuss Anti-Asian hate crimes. Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V, and Jung Kook comprise the Grammy-nominated group. They are known for their upbeat songs and dances and have built a loyal global fan base, winning the IFPI Global Recording Artist of the Year crown in February for the second straight year.

The meeting comes as the month of May, Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander (AANHPI) month, comes to a close and amid a sharp upswing in hate crimes against Asian Americans in the past year.

"President Biden previously spoke about his commitment to combating the surge of anti-Asian hate crimes and signed into law the Covid-19 Hate Crimes Act in May 2021 to provide law enforcement with resources to identify, investigate, and report hate crimes and ensure that hate crimes information is more accessible to AA and NHPI communities," the White House, the official.

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⚡️🇺🇸🇺🇦The US as soon as next week may announce a new security aid package for Ukraine that will include advanced, long-range rocket systems - CNN citing officials

‼️PRESS SEC. JEAN-PIERRE: "America has more guns than people in this country. If more guns were indeed the solution, we would be the safest country in the world—but we are not. And so, the President has been very clear. He wants action."

🗽🌆Officials said that New York City will bid to host the Democratic National Convention at Madison Square Garden in 2024.

“This is a team New York moment,” Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, said at a briefing in midtown Manhattan. “This is not about Democrat or Republican; it’s about how do we bring resources to our city.”

City Hall said that the bid to host the summer 2024 affair was being formally submitted Thursday ahead of the Friday deadline.

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⚡️Washington and Taipei are planning to announce talks to strengthen economic ties

✈️✈️Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines will be cutting about 100 flights daily around its network starting in July and extending into the beginning of August. Delta did not explicitly say if the cut flights were previously scheduled flights, which people may have already purchased tickets for

A release posted on Delta's website said "if upcoming bookings for later this summer happen to change, our teams will provide customers with the next-best itinerary that gets them where they need to go with the shortest delay possible."

It's not clear how many of these flights would have been scheduled to depart Atlanta.
The company claimed that the reduced service "will build additional resilience in our system and improve operational reliability for our customers and employees."

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🥺🥺Just two days after his wife was killed in the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Joe Garcia, the husband of teacher Irma Garcia, died, Garcia’s relatives said Thursday.

On Tuesday, Irma Garcia, 46, was among the 21 people killed during the attack, about 85 miles west of San Antonio. Of these victims, 19 were students around the age of 10.

Joe Garcia’s death was first reported by the nephew of Irma Garcia, who tweeted Thursday:

“EXTREMELY heartbreaking and come with deep sorrow to say that my Tia Irma’s husband Joe Garcia has passed away due to grief. I truly am at a loss for words for how we are all feeling. PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR FAMILY. God have mercy on us. This isn’t easy.”

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🚫 Deaths caused by gun violence have increased sharply in recent years, eclipsing those caused by car accidents in 2020 among American children, according to researchers at the University of Michigan.

According to data released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 45,222 people were killed by people wielding guns in the United States in 2020 - a 13.5% increase over the previous year.

That trend was driven by a 33.4% increase in firearm homicides, as well as a 1.1% increase in suicide by firearm; the former, they note, disproportionately affect younger people.

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🇺🇸👶 This is what abortion looks like now in the US, after Oklahoma adopted the nation’s strictest abortion law

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⚡️ Woman injured in shelling of Russian village by Ukrainian troops dies, governor says

📹 Russian engineering troops from the Western Military District continue to clear the territory belonging to the liberated settlements of the Kharkov region from unexploded Ukrainian ordnance

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📹 Russia's Ministry of Defence has published footage showing the combat work of the 2S7M "Malka" 203mm self-propelled gun

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⚡️ Moscow declares five Croatian diplomats personae non gratae

📌 Russian MoD’s latest update on the special operation in Ukraine:

▪️ Russian aerospace forces have destroyed the Buk-M1-2 air defense missile launcher and the Ukrainian S-300 anti-aircraft missile system;

▪️ Russian high-precision air-based missiles destroyed the Ukrainian air defence guidance and target designation radar near Gusarovka;

▪️ Russian air defences shot down one Ukrainian MiG-29 aircraft in the Odessa region;

▪️ Russian aviation destroyed two ammunition depots, disabled nine tanks and five Ukrainian Grad multiple rocket launchers;

▪️ Russian air defences intercepted a Ukrainian Tochka-U missile in the LPR;

▪️ In total, 180 Ukrainian airplanes and 127 helicopters, 1,027 drones, 324 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,281 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 438 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,693 field artillery and mortars, as well as 3,218 units of special military vehicles have thus far been destroyed during the operation

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📹 Ukrainian captives express their wish to help burying their former colleagues and to help Ukrainian families find their relations

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⚡️ Kremlin on Zelensky's statement about readiness to resume talks: 'This contradicts with fact that negotiations were frozen by Kiev'

Russia's Ministry of Defence has opened a humanitarian corridor for foreign vessels leaving Mariupol port. The corridor has been opened since 25 May and is accessible every day. During daylight hours, vessels quitting the port will be accompanied by tugs to the assembly point

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