North Korea warned that the United States would face a “very serious situation” because President Biden “made a big mistake” in his recent speech, calling the DPRK a security threat and disclosing his intention to pursue a hostile policy towards it

❗️ US may reportedly un-freeze $7 billion worth of Iranian assets

Catch up on our latest updates:

▪️ Eleven people have been hospitalised, two of them in critical condition, after a deck collapsed at a restaurant in Tennessee.

▪️ American actress Olympia Dukakis has passed away at the age of 89 in New York City.

▪️ Wisconsin police fatally shot a gunman who opened fire at the Oneida Casino overnight, killing two and injuring another.

▪️ Senator Mitt Romney was booed by an audience at the Utah GOP convention on Saturday.

▪️ Portland authorities declared a riot on Saturday night following protests in the downtown area.

😡 Senator Mitt Romney was booed and called a “traitor” during a Utah Republican Party convention in West Valley City.

“Aren't you embarrassed?”, the Utah senator said in response, describing himself as a man “who says what he means”.

The booing only stopped after outgoing party chair Derek Brown called on delegates to “show respect” for the senator, who in turn urged party members to “come together in strength and unity”.

❗️UPDATE: U.S. State Department denies reports of prisoner swap with Iran

🚨 The US Border Patrol has detained a number of gang members who attempted to enter the country via a southern border checkpoint in Texas as part of the migrant flows.

Laredo Sector Chief Patrol Agent Matthew Hudak tweeted earlier this week about nabbing “5 gang members in 7 days”, including those from the international gang MS-13 and the 18th Street criminal group.

🤔 In McCarthy’s footsteps?

Ahead of Saturday's worldwide International Workers' Day celebrations, Biden called on citizens to mark 1 May as… Loyalty Day.

"This Loyalty Day, I call upon the people of the United States to join in this national observance, display the United States flag and pledge allegiance to the Republic for which it stands", the statement reads.

Anti-communist Loyalty Day was first established in 1921 as “Americanisation Day” during the first “Red Scare” over Bolshevism. It was re-founded by Congress in 1955, near the end of the post-Second World War period of anti-communism and blacklisting led by Senator Joseph McCarthy.

🖌 Donald Trump’s success during the 2016 presidential election has inspired more celebrities to run for political office in the United States, said John Brabender, a Republican strategist.

"In a strange and odd way, Trump sort of broke some barriers and shattered some glass ceilings ... and showed there are alternate paths", Brabender told The Hill

Imagine swimming calmly in a river and suddenly you come across a mammoth bone, which could be about 100,000 years old, what would your reaction be?

Derek Demeter and Henry Sadler found a four-foot, 50-pound bone in the Peace River near Acadia, calling it an "amazing" discovery

🤷 Some people do not care about issues related to Space, as so many of their own problems on Earth have gone unresolved. How can they think about Space when there are critical issues whose boundaries will become wider if they are not fixed? Some take this view, but apparently not Kamala Harris, who has recently brought attention to her appointment to the National Space Council on Twitter.

Meanwhile 39 days have passed without a news conference since being tapped to deal with the border crisis

How quickly the hosts of US daytime show The View can change their minds. What is behind their dramatic shift in opinion about Caitlyn Jenner? Four years ago, the hosts of The View hyped Caitlyn Jenner's possible presidential run. Now, the liberal presenters see Jenner as a threat to the powerful Democratic governor of California. Сo-host Joy Behar last Friday denounced the reality TV star as an inexperienced Trump puppet: “Reality TV star Caitlyn Jenner just announced her plans to run for governor. Does she have any qualifications for this job?”

A vessel capsized off the coast of the US city of San Diego, leaving two people dead and over 20 injured, who were taken to local hospitals for treatment, the city's fire and rescue service reported on Sunday

🍽 The Small Business Administration has begun accepting applications for a $29 billion grant program aimed at boosting the restaurant industry.

The Restaurant Revitalization Fund is the first federal pandemic aid program developed exclusively for restaurants, bars and other food-service businesses authorized by Congress

Senator Susan Collins, who won re-election in Maine last year despite a strong Democratic bid to oust her, said she was dismayed that Romney had been booed by fellow Republicans in his home state of Utah, and defended Cheney, who like Romney has been attacked from within the party for criticizing former President Donald Trump.

"We need to have room for a variety of views," Collins told CNN's "State of the Union" program. "We are not a party that is led by just one person."

🗳 Former US President Donald Trump has expressed optimism that the Arizona ballot audit will find numerous irregularities and apparently lost "votes", according to a speech purportedly caught on video at Mar-a-Lago on 28 April.

"Let’s see what they find. I wouldn’t be surprised if they found thousands and thousands and thousands of votes […] After that we’ll watch Pennsylvania, and you watch Georgia, then you’re going to watch Michigan and Wisconsin, and you’re watching New Hampshire", Trump said

🌐 Over the past months, many lawmakers and media personalities in the US have called for a legislative review to limit what they call "Big Tech sovereignty," implying that social media have unlimited powers to determine what violates their guidelines and what does not.

Republican Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri is warning that Big Tech firms are attempting to "transform America," claiming in a new book that mega-corporations are the "gravest threat" to liberty in decades

Latvian-Russian journalists call on UN secretary general to voice his position on persecution of journalists in Latvia

Check out some news you may have missed:

▪️ Iran has rejected reports about a prisoner swap deal with the US.

▪️ US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has claimed that the troop pullout from Afghanistan “doesn’t mean we’re leaving”.

▪️ Blinken has confirmed the intentions of the Biden administration to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in the “months ahead”.

▪️ Hillary Clinton has warned that Biden's plan to withdraw from Afghanistan may spark global terror.

▪️ Moscow says it is ready to have a substantive dialogue with Washington on strategic stability issues.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has warned of serious repercussions from President Joe Biden's push for US forces full exit from Afghanistan.

In an interview with CNN on Sunday, the ex-Democratic presidential hopeful described Biden's move as "a very difficult decision" and "a wicked problem".

She argued that the US should brace itself for "two huge consequences at some point in the not-too-distant future", including the possible collapse of the Afghan government and "a takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban, probably with a resumption of civil war in certain parts of the country".

LIVE | Blinken and Raab hold Q&A session as Day 1 of G7 ministerial meeting wraps up: https://youtu.be/cLW7kDrHZeA

🤔 The US and the Taliban (a terrorist organisation banned in Russia) are reportedly negotiating a new deadline for the troop pullout from Afghanistan instead of the 9/11 anniversary.

According to the local media outlet Tolo News, the Taliban did not agree with Washington's decision to complete the withdrawal by 11 September, and proposed an alternative.

The group reportedly suggested that the US pull its troops out by July, a date between 11 September and 1 May – the original deadline for the withdrawal.