⚡️🇺🇸Gov. Abbott expects new laws hat will address gun violence and mental health in light of the Uvalde shooting

"Do we expect laws to come out of this devastating crime? The answer is absolutely, yes," Abbott said on Friday. "And there will be laws in multiple different subject areas."

🇺🇸Former US President Donald Trump said the Uvalde school shooting was "a savage and barbaric atrocity that shocks the conscience of every single American."

He also slammed President Joe Biden for blaming the incident on the gun industry, calling such rhetoric divisive, dangerous, with no place in US politics.

"If the United States has $40 billion to send to Ukraine we should be able to do whatever it takes to keep our children safe at home," Trump said on Friday.

The United States spent trillions of dollars in Iraq and Afghanistan for nothing in return, Trump said. The United States should invest in boosting security at US schools before it considers nation building around the world, he added.

📈Stocks finished abruptly higher again on Friday, riding a tech rebound to Wall Street's first winning week in nearly two months. The gains added to a rebound staged over the past several days.

The S&P 500 rose 2.5% and finished 6.6% higher for the week, its best weekly gain since November 2020. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.8%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq gained 3.3%.

The strong finish for the week came as investors received potentially encouraging news about inflation. The Commerce Department said that inflation rose 6.3% in April from a year earlier, the first slowdown since November 2020 and a sign that high prices may finally be moderating, at least for now.

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📸🎥Stranger Things's hotly-anticipated fourth season premiered on May 27 on Netflix with a second volume coming in July.

Captivating audiences since its 2016 debut, the sci-fi TV drama is set in the 1980s in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana, and stars an ensemble cast of talented actors.

Now in its fourth season, the Netflix hit has already made its young stars like Noah Schnapp, Finn Wolfhard, Joe Keery and Gaten Matarazzo into millionaires

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🔻President Joe Biden is preparing to announce his plan to forgive up to $10,000 of student loan debt for those who qualify based on their income, The Washington Post reported, citing three sources.

The policy is expected to come with strings attached, applying to only those making under $150,000 in income, according to the Post. CNN reports the income cap might be even lower at $125,000.

“No decisions have been made yet,” Vedant Patel, a White House spokesman, said in a statement to the newspaper Thursday.

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📲Samsung is reportedly scaling back the number of phones it’s planning on producing in 2022, from 310 million to 280 million, according to SamMobile, which cites a report from Korean outlet Maeil Business News.

The lowered production targets will affect phones across its lineup, from low-end models to flagships.

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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🚹🚺⚧ Oklahoma has passed three bills targeting transgender people so far this year, following several similar moves made a year prior. It is part of a nationwide rollback of LGBTQ rights that centers upon characterizing transgender women as a threat to cisgender women.

On Thursday, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed into law the third “bathroom bill” to be passed in the US, although similar bills have been proposed in more than a dozen states.

Senate Bill 615 requires people using "Multiple occupancy restrooms or changing area" in Oklahoma to use the one that corresponds to the sex that appears on their birth certificate. Public schools that refuse to comply with this policy could lose 5% of state funding for their budget.

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😵 On Thursday, a Rutherford County Schools board meeting voted to sack Helen Campbell, the principal of Walter Hill Elementary school, who was on unpaid suspension, after being accused of child abuse, according to Fox News.

▪️ The board voted 4-2 for Campbell to be fired.

▪️ According to video evidence presented to the board, in November 2019, when an special education pupil didn't comply with a request from Campbell, she and Bonnie Marlar, a teacher, grabbed the pupil by the ankles and dragged him through the school's hallway.

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▪️ The 46th POTUS faced graduates at an outdoor ceremony at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis on Friday, giving a signature blunder-infused speech where he slammed President Vladimir Putin and Russia’s ongoing military operation to demilitarize and de-Nazify Ukraine.

☺️ President Biden revived his frequently ridiculed stage whisper, stooping over his microphone to remind them that “I’m your commander in chief”.

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US president was true to himself and offered up another spectacular gaffe...

🥴 At one point during his address Biden said that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (more commonly known as North Korea) had sided with the US against Russia after the Ukraine crisis had worsened. This came as a surprise to those in his audience who thought it is South Korea that is America's ally.

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📹 The Russian MoD has published footage showing conduct of combat by a unit of the Airborne Forces during the special military operation.

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⚡️ City of Krasny Liman completely liberated from Ukrainian nationalists – Russian MoD

⚡️ 📹 Russia's MoD has revealed footage showing the launch of a Zircon missile from the frigate "Admiral Gorshkov".

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⚡️ Russia's MoD issues its latest update on the special operation in Ukraine:

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces and People's Militia of the DPR completely liberated Krasny Liman from Ukrainian nationalists;

▪️ The Russian Aerospace Forces have destroyed the forward command post of the 30th mechanised brigade of the AFU in Bakhmut and command post of the territorial defence brigade in Soledar using high-precision air-based missiles;

▪️ Operational-tactical and army aviation have hit six command posts, one communication centre, four ammunition depots, two Grad MLRS batteries, as well as 50 areas of concentrated manpower and Ukrainian military equipment;

▪️ Russian air defence units have shot down a Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter near Orekhovo, Zaporozhye Region;

▪️ Missile troops and artillery have hit 57 command posts, 618 areas of manpower and military equipment concentration, 42 Ukrainian artillery and mortar units at firing positions and two batteries of Grad multiple-launch rocket systems;

▪️ Since the beginning of the operation, 182 Ukrainian aircraft and 128 helicopters, 1,045 unmanned aerial vehicles, 324 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,297 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 444 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,714 field artillery and mortars, and 3,245 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed.

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📹 A resident of Svetlodarsk describes how Ukrainian nationalists, before leaving, tried to blow up the dam of the Uglegorskaya thermal power plant, which was built in Soviet times.

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📹🐴 This year's first ceremony of the changing of foot and horse guards of the Presidential Regiment has been held at the Kremlin.

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