‼️ 'Soul' wins best animated feature at Oscars

UPDATE | 'Colette' wins best documentary short subject at Oscars

UPDATE | 'My Octopus Teacher' wins best documentary feature at Oscars

UPDATE | 'Tenet' wins best visual effects at Oscars

UPDATE | Yuh-Jung Youn wins best supporting actress Oscar for 'Minari'

UPDATE | Award for best production design, cinematography go to 'Mank'

UPDATE | Award for best film editing goes to 'Sound of Metal'

UPDATE |Award for best music for original song goes to 'Fight For You' from 'Judas and the Black Messiah'

‼️ #BREAKING | 'Nomadland' wins best picture at Oscars

‼️ Frances McDormand wins best actress Oscar for 'Nomadland'

UPDATE | Anthony Hopkins wins best actor Oscar for 'The Father'

Check out some news you may have missed:

▪️ Beijing: China will boost cooperation with Russia as Washington slaps further sanctions on Moscow

▪️James O'Keefe, founder of Project Veritas, has promised to file a defamation lawsuit against CNN

▪️Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov has informed the US about the next steps Russia is taking in order to address the hostile actions by America

▪️In the wake of Biden recognising the Armenian genocide, the US Embassy and Consulates in Turkey announced that they would be closed on Monday and Tuesday as a "precautionary measure" due to possible protests

❗️Officials in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, have declared a state of emergency ahead of the possible release of bodycam footage of the fatal shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. (pictured).

The man was killed during a drug-related warrant executed by sheriff’s deputies last week.

The body camera video will be shown to Brown’s family and attorneys in private at 11:30 a.m. ET today. They will hold a news conference immediately after that.

🤔 Gun lobby vs weapons carry ban: who will win?

A group associated with the National Rifle Association (NRA) has won the right to appeal against the state of New York’s denial of applications for citizens to carry concealed handguns in public.

Earlier, a New York court ruled against two gun owners and the NRA-affiliated New York Rifle group when they tried to legally challenge the legitimacy of the restrictions on carrying concealed handguns in public places.

The plaintiffs claimed that the state of New York’s restrictions violated the Second Amendment of the US Constitution on the right to own and carry guns.

US Vice President Kamala Harris has confirmed she played the key role in convincing Biden to pull troops out of Afghanistan.

During an interview with CNN, Harris said she was the “last person in the room” before the president made up his mind.

Are you surprised though?

🏛 The state distribution of the US House has changed due to population shifts:

▪️ California is losing a seat in the House of Representatives for the first time in its history;
▪️ Texas will gain two seats;
▪️ Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Carolina, and Oregon will each gain one seat;
▪️ California, Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia will each lose one seat

🔫 Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, gun sellers across the US have reported a major spike in firearm and ammunition purchases. Rising uncertainty among US citizens, who have endured periodic lockdown measures, has led to increased fears of food shortages, government shutdowns, and other potential crises.

According to a report from the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), there was a nearly 60% increase in gun sales among Black Americans in 2020, including more than 8 million people who were first time buyers as well as a rise in the number of female gun-purchasers

‼️ #BREAKING | Biden administration preparing to send Secretary of State Blinken to Ukraine next month, report says

🙅‍♂️ US Congressman Doug Collins, a Republican from the state of Georgia, announced that he will not run for re-election in the next election cycle

✈️ F-35's still increasing in price.

Matthew Bromberg, chief of the military engines division for Pratt & Whitney explained that the spike in pricing happened due to the expulsion of Turkey from the programme – a move initiated by Washington itself in 2019. As it turned out, Turkish companies had been producing 188 parts for the jet's engines and did so at a much cheaper price than the firms that replaced them.

The US is yet to qualify the suppliers for the remaining 25% of the details currently manufactured by the Turkish companies. The Pentagon hoped to finish the process by 2020, but, in fact, it will be relying on Turkish suppliers for two more years until their contracts end

🙅‍♂️ US Senators Rick Scott and Dan Sullivan have called on US Special envoy for Climate John Kerry to resign over allegedly sharing with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif what is, according to them, supposed to be classified military intelligence.

Cloudy with a chance of uranium