Rise Up 4 Abortion Rights group pro-choice protesters have gathered outside Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s home, dressed in pants appearing to be soaked with blood and holding baby doll toys. According to the activists, the dolls represent forced births and they "aren’t protesting to change the minds of women-hating fascists", but calling on "the pro-choice majority to get in the streets".

Protests of pro-choice and pro-life activists have intensified in the US since the beginning of May, when media reported on the leak of a draft opinion distributed by Supreme Court justices in favour of ending the federal constitutional right to abortion

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⚡Oscar-winning Canadian director Paul Haggis arrested in southern Italy for alleged 'sexual assault'

🏊A separate 'open category' competitions for transgender swimmers to be opened, the international federation sports federation for swimming (FINA) has announced

FINA said that from now on transgender women can only compete in women's races if they have completed their transition by the age of 12.

This means that Lia Thomas, the transgender swimmer who broke several US women's national records this year, will be banned from competing against women.

At the moment, there are no restrictions for the participation of transgender athletes in men's competitions.

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🚤 Boats collide in Florida, 2 dead, 10 rescued

Two people were killed and 10 others had to be rescued when their boats collided at night near Key Biscayne in South Florida, the US Coast Guard and local authorities say. The Coast Guard said a person involved in the collision notified the agency of the crash around 10:30 pm Friday night.

Two bodies were recovered in the ensuing rescue operation, one by the Coast Guard Station Miami Beach and another by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue. Nine other survivors were sent to another hospital for treatment, authorities said. The collision is under investigation by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

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🏎 Verstappen’s first Canadian GP win

Max Verstappen cruised to his sixth Formula One win of the season after holding off a late challenge from Carlos Sainz Jr. and pulling away in a fairly easy Sunday drive in the Canadian Grand Prix. Verstappen started from pole position at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve and the Dutchman had no trouble clearing Fernando Alonso, who earned his first front-row start in a decade then joked he’d attack Verstappen in the first turn to steal the victory.

Mercedes had a tremendous rebound from its season-long struggles, which included a terrible Friday practice, as seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton scored his first podium since the season-opening race in March. Verstappen, has now won six of the first nine races in his noscript defense season.

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🍎 Maryland Apple store’s union vote marks latest in labor drives

Apple store employees in a Baltimore suburb voted to unionize by a nearly 2-to-1 margin Saturday, a union said, joining a growing push across US retail, service and tech industries to organize for greater workplace protections.

The Apple retail workers in Towson, Maryland, voted 65-33 to seek entry into the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, the union’s announcement said. The vote could not immediately be confirmed with the National Labor Relations Board, which would have to certify the outcome.

Many unionization efforts have been led by young workers in their 20s and even in their teens. Organizers have worked to establish unions at companies including Amazon, Starbucks, Google parent company Alphabet and outdoors retailer REI.

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Drake Surprise Releases a New Album, ‘Honestly, Nevermind’

Drake surprised fans with news of his seventh studio album noscriptd “Honestly, Nevermind,” which marks the 35-year-old rapper’s first substantial push into a new genre: house music. Across social media, the album quickly ignited discourse over the genre, with many people expressing astonishment that a rapper would gamble on a genre not typically associated with hip-hop or Black audiences.  

According to a press release, the record became the biggest dance album in Apple Music history, breaking the record for first-day streams worldwide. Drake held the record for the biggest album in Apple Music history by first-day streams worldwide with 2021’s "Certified Lover Boy."

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📱 Telegram’s Premium subnoscription is here and it costs $4.99 / month

Some of its bigger draws including faster downloads and a larger maximum file upload size of 4GB (rather than the standard 2GB). Premium subscribers will also get double the limits imposed on standard users. Instead of joining up to 500 channels, subscribers are capped at 1,000 channels. The same goes for other features on Telegram — subscribers can create 20 chat folders with 200 chats each, save up to 10 stickers, pin up to 10 chats, and add a total of four accounts to Telegram instead of three. Premium users also get to have longer bios with a link.

Durov also promised that Telegram won’t stop developing features for free users either, which the platform appears to be following through on so far.

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‼️ Police: 'multiple'
people shot in Washington, DC,
officer among injured

🏌️ Matt Fitzpatrick wins US Open

Matt Fitzpatrick conquered The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts, this weekend to win the US Open, the first major victory of his career. The 27-year-old Englishman had won seven times on the European Tour, but had yet to win a professional event held on US soil.

Fitzpatrick hit 17 greens in regulation. He is the second player from England over the past 50 years to win the US Open. While it was Fitzpatrick's first win as a professional on US soil, it wasn't actually his first win at The Country Club. Back in 2013, Fitzpatrick won the US Amateur on the very same course. On Sunday, he was able to do it again, this time taking home a $3.15 million check in the process.

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💲 NAACP says it's Biden's 'turn now' after Pharrell Williams surprised 5 HBCU students, recent grads by paying off their student loan debt Williams made the announcement during an NAACP panel held in Washington, DC, on the topic of the Black student debt crisis. This panel was part of William's Something in the Waters Festival, held in the nation's capital in celebration of Juneteenth.  Black students are not only more likely to need to take on debt for school, but Black college graduates are also nearly five times as likely to default on their loans than their white peers. NAACP President Derrick Johnson called on President Joe Biden to address student loan debt for all Americans. A final decision on a forgiveness plan is expected to be announced in July or August, which is when the pause on student-loan payment is set to expire after August 31.

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🚘 Tesla faces losing world's biggest electric car maker crown

Tesla faces losing its crown as the world's biggest electric car maker to Volkswagen by 2024. A study by Bloomberg Intelligence expects the German giant to double production to more than 2 million battery-powered vehicles in 2024, overtaking Tesla. 

Volkswagen's production and sales are focused on Europe, and expects the company to expand further in China rather than America. US sales accounted for less than 10% of VW's total last year, according to its annual report. Volkswagen is also considering of its sports car maker Porsche, which also has an electric model.  

In an interview on the Tesla Owners Silicon Valley YouTube channel released on Tuesday, Musk said competitors Rivian and Lucid faced bankruptcy if they didn't cut costs.

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The masses sing a rendition of “Bella Ciao” in celebration of Gustavo Petro's victory, outside the Movistar Arena in Bogotá.

Country first ever leftist candidate in Colombia's presidential Gustavo Petro leads the second round of the election with 50.5% of the vote in pre-processed data from about 98% of polling stations, the media reported. ➡️ MORE VIDEOS

‼️ Joy and celebrations inside Gustavo Petro's campaign bunker with indigenous music and dances. ➡️ MORE VIDEOS

📉 A record-breaking 50% of Americans say that the U.S. has poor moral values, while only 1% of Americans rate the country's values as excellent.

🗯 "Americans' views of the state of moral values in the U.S. are dismal, and their expectations for the future are grim," reads the summary of a Gallup poll that was released last week. "This has generally been the case over the course of the 20-year trend, but negative ratings of the current state of moral values are the worst they have ever been."

▪️ Asked the overall state of moral values in the U.S. today, half of the poll's respondents indicated that they believe the country has "poor" values, an all-time high since Gallup began asking the question two decades ago. Only one percent of those polled thought that the U.S. has "excellent" moral values, while 12% rated the country's moral values as "good."

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🤭 A decree from the Diocese of Worcester states that the Nativity School of Worcester will no longer be able to describe itself as a Roman Catholic school, and it has left at least one alumnus with questions.

▪️ Bishop Robert McManus said his issues lie with a Pride flag and Black Lives Matter flag that've been on display outside the school since early last year.

▪️ Back in March, the bishop put the Nativity School on notice over his belief that the flags are inconsistent with Roman Catholic teachings.

🗯 "The flying of these flags in front of a Catholic school sends a mixed, confusing and scandalous message to the public about the Church's stance on these important moral and social issues," Bishop McManus wrote in a decree published on Thursday.

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🤔 Counting the pennies? 

Amber Heard was spotted shopping at discount department store TJ Maxx in the Hamptons on Thursday.

▪️ The 36-year-old actress and her sister, Whitney Henriquez, indulged in an evening of bargain shopping at the Bridgehampton retail store in New York State.

▪️ It comes in the wake of a public admission by the Hollywood star that she can't afford the $8.3 million damages awarded to Depp on 1 June.

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😳 Transgender rights activists forced feminists to barricade themselves inside a Bristol pub on Sunday after denouncing them as “fascists”.

🥴 Campaigners from Standing For Women claim they were followed to the Slug and Lettuce by counter-protesters from the trans rights activists group. 

😣 Standing For Women has been labelled "transphobic" by a group called Bristol Against Hate, which organised a counter-protest today - both groups met at College Green. Activists from Standing For Women have taken to Twitter to describe the scene, with some claiming they are "being silenced".

🧐 Many will see the clash between these two groups as a clear example of how the left-liberal agenda is eating itself from the inside.

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🙂 Iron Mike returns to the friendly skies!

📹 A TMZ video spotted Mike Tyson, who punched Melvin Townsend III on a flight in April after he threw a water bottle at the former heavyweight champion, walking into LAX airport, reportedly for another commercial flight. 

💭 Tyson said he was “high and pissed off” when the incident took place.

👌 The overzealous fan lawyered up after the debacle, but the California DA eventually dropped the charges.

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❗️ The Russian MoD’s latest statements on the Ukraine crisis:

▪️ The Russian Armed Forces have struck Artsiz airfield in Odessa region using an Oniks high-precision missile. The attack has resulted in the destruction of a control station for Bayraktar-TB2 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and two such UAVs on the ground.

▪️ Operational-tactical and army aviation has neutralized 47 areas where manpower and equipment were concentrated.

▪️ Missile troops and artillery have neutralized 148 areas where AFU manpower and equipment were concentrated, 25 command posts, as well as 59 artillery units at their firing positions.

▪️ Russian air defense systems have shot down a Ukrainian Air Force MiG-29 in Dnepropetrovsk region.

▪️ Some 208 airplanes and 132 helicopters, 1,260 unmanned aerial vehicles, 345 anti-aircraft missile systems, 3,696 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 576 combat vehicles equipped with multiple rocket-launching systems, 2,055 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 3,731 special military equipment units have been destroyed since the beginning of the special military operation.

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