🇷🇺 Russian President Vladimir Putin at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) explains the reasons for the current global economic crisis, stressing that it is linked to poor Western policies rather than Russia's special operation in Ukraine.

🎥 The All-Russia People's Front delivered humanitarian aid to residents of Svetlodarsk and Mironovsky.

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🇺🇦🎤Ukraine disagrees with the decision of the Eurovision organizers not to stage the contest in the country this year and demands additional negotiations on the matter, Ukrainian Culture Minister Oleksandr Tkachenko says.

🇬🇧 In the meantime, a spokesperson for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says that the UK would be ready to hold the song contest if chosen to be the host country, pledging to reflect the Ukrainian culture as much as possible, Sky News reports.

🎥 A Mariupol resident reveals how Azov Batallion neo-Nazis treated them.

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⚡️An RT correspondent has released a video featuring Alexander Drueke, one of the American mercenaries who are believed to have been captured near Kharkov.

🎥 "Only a miracle saved us": A family from Mariupol recalls Ukrainian shelling.

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❗️ US lifts sanctions on former high-ranking official at Venezuela's PDVSA, Carlos Erik Malpica-Flores - Treasury

🫣"Putin’s Price Hike" no more? Nancy Pelosi, as lucid as always, is now blaming skyrocketing prices on COVID and the “war in Iraq”.

😔Three people were killed, and a woman was injured during a shooting at an Alabama church Thursday evening, police report.

Police said at a news conference Friday that the suspect, a 71-year-old man who occasionally attended services, acted alone and is now in custody. Police Capt. Shane Ware did not identify the man by name.

The Vestavia Hills Police Department said the man walked in alone to a small gathering at St. Stephens Episcopal Church in the Birmingham suburb of Vestavia Hills, Alabama. The church was hosting a "Boomers Potluck" from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. EDT. Police were dispatched around 6:22 p.m. to an active shooter call at the church building.

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🔻😷The Illinois Department of Public Health reported 27,112 new confirmed and probable cases of COVID-19 in the state, including 68 deaths, since last Friday.

The CDC says 25 Illinois counties are rated at a "high community level" for COVID-19. Thirty-nine counties are now rated at "medium community level." Cook, DuPage, Kane, and Lake counties are among those to drop to "medium community level."

IDPH is reporting a total of 3,380,095 cases, including 33,994 deaths, in 102 counties since the beginning of the pandemic.

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🏆🏀The Golden State Warriors are the 2022 NBA champions, Stephen Curry has his long-awaited Finals MVP award, and the Warriors' big three of Curry, Klay Thompson, and Draymond Green tallied noscript No. 4.

This latest noscript comes after a two-year interregnum during which the Warriors scarcely resembled the juggernaut that ran through the league from 2015 through 2019.

The championship is the Warriors' fourth in the past eight seasons and solidifies their status as an NBA dynasty. They were led by their core trio of Stephen Curry, Draymond Green, and Klay Thompson. The three have lost one playoff series when fully healthy since 2015, a loss in the 2016 NBA Finals to LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers.

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🌊🌨 Montana's Republican governor, Greg Gianforte, is under fire for vacationing while punishing floods hit Yellowstone National Park and communities on its fringes this week.

Gianforte was not only not in Montana, he wasn't in the U.S. at all. He was in Italy, but his office didn't tell his constituents for days. It wasn't until Wednesday, 48 hours after the flooding occurred that his office publicly stated that he was out of the country. They said they couldn't release where he was exactly due to unspecified security concerns.

Now Gianforte is back in Montana and facing scrutiny for not hurrying home more quickly and for keeping the public in the dark as to his whereabouts.

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🎙🔎The British government on Friday ordered the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to face spying charges, a milestone — but not the end — of a decade-long legal saga sparked by his website’s publication of classified U.S. documents.

WikiLeaks said it would challenge the order, and Assange’s lawyers have 14 days to lodge an appeal. “We’re not at the end of the road here,” said Assange’s wife, Stella Assange. “We’re going to fight this.”

Julian Assange has battled in British courts for years to avoid being sent to the U.S., where he faces 17 charges of espionage and one charge of computer misuse. American prosecutors say the Australian citizen helped U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning steal classified diplomatic cables and military files that WikiLeaks later published, putting lives at risk.

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🧐The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday cleared the way for lawmakers to severely limit or ban abortion in the state, reversing a decision by the court just four years ago that guaranteed the right to abortion under the Iowa Constitution.

Friday’s ruling comes amid expectations that the U.S. Supreme Court will overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide. If that happens, Iowa lawmakers could ban abortion without completing the lengthy process of amending the state constitution.

The Iowa decision stemmed from a lawsuit filed by abortion providers who challenged a 2020 law that required a 24-hour waiting period before a woman could get an abortion. A judge struck down the law citing the state high court’s 2018 ruling. The judge also concluded that the law violated rules prohibiting the passage of bills with more than one subject.

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📲📡The Federal Aviation Administration says it expects AT&T and Verizon to be able to more or less fully roll out their 5G C-band networks by July 2023, after multiple delays due to concerns about the radio waves affecting vital safety equipment on planes.

The plan, which the FAA says is the result of collaboration between regulators, carriers, and the aviation industry, will allow carriers to turn on their equipment in “carefully considered phases” as airlines work to retrofit their planes with equipment that will mitigate any potential interference from cellular signals.

There are still a few questions up in the air: the FAA’s statement doesn’t make it clear who’s paying for equipment to be retrofitted onto the planes or which areas will be the first (and last) to get the C-band rollout.

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