"The People of our Country will not stand for it! These corrupt social media companies must […] never again be allowed to destroy and decimate our Electoral Process", Trump said.

❗️Israel's president taps Yair Lapid to form new government

The announcement came as Netanyahu's deadline to form a new government has expired after the prime minister failed to reach an agreement with the chairman of the right-wing party Yamina, Naftali Bennett.

According to the announcement, the leader of the Yesh Atid party has the best shot at forming a coalition.

"It is clear that Knesset member Yair Lapid has a chance to form a government that will earn the confidence of the Knesset, even if the difficulties are many", Rivlin stated.

🤔 Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has slammed a recently released CIA recruitment ad because of its focus on appealing to people of diverse backgrounds, different races, and sexual orientations.

He suggested that instead, the agency should attract individuals “based on their talent and skill, not their race or sexuality”.

Pompeo referred to several videos that the CIA posted on its social media accounts, apparently, in an attempt to look more “progressive”.

The clips featured an agent named Mija, who stressed her ability to be “unapologetically” herself, a “cisgender millennial”, refusing to “internalise misguided patriarchal ideas of what a woman can or should be”.

❗️White House: President Biden thinks social media platforms should stop amplifying unworthy info

❗️ Biden administration supports waiving intellectual property rights for COVID vaccines, USTR says.

❗️US Vice President Kamala Harris says she will go to Guatemala, Mexico on June 7-8.

📊 Deportations of illegal immigrants from the US in April fell to the lowest monthly level ever recorded, enforcement data collected by Immigration and Customs Enforcement revealed.

Arrests of illegal aliens by ICE have reportedly declined by more than half under the Biden administration's new rules restricting terms of enforcement.

❗️Two Americans sentenced to life in Italian prison over 2019 killing of officer.

🚓 The Atlanta police officer who fatally shot a black man named Rayshard Brooks in June 2020 got his job back but will remain on administrative leave until the criminal charges he faces are resolved, the city's police department said.

Rolfe faces 11 charges, including felony murder, in connection with Brooks’ death.

🤔 "A sad day for Facebook"

GOP lawmakers and heavyweights slam big tech over the Trump Facebook ban, fueling 2024 campaign rumors.

Responding to a Facebook Oversight Board's upholding of the ban on Donald Trump's account, Sen. Josh Hawley accused Facebook of acting as a monopoly, while Sen. Ted Cruz panned the Oversight Board's decision as "disgraceful."

Mark Meadows, a former Trump White House chief of staff, said that it is "sad for America," as well as a "sad day for Facebook."

UPDATE | Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), the largest industry lobbying group, slammed the move.

“In the midst of a deadly pandemic, the Biden Administration has taken an unprecedented step that will undermine our global response to the pandemic and compromise safety. This decision will sow confusion between public and private partners, further weaken already strained supply chains and foster the proliferation of counterfeit vaccines," PhRMA CEO Stephen Ubl said in a statement.

🚀 Touchdown!
SpaceX successfully lands Starship rocket at its Texas base.

💻 GOP Representative Kat Cammack accuses Facebook of promoting human smuggling amid border crisis.

In a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Cammack called on the social media platform to take measures against human smuggling advertisements, while pointing at what she described as the "silencing" and "shadow-banning" of conservative voices.

Cammack provided screenshots from a Facebook search which reportedly show ads promoting "passage to the United States."

UPDATE | World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus welcomed the US support for waiving COVID vaccine intellectual property protections.

🔫 The South Carolina House of Representatives voted Wednesday afternoon to allow execution by firing squad as a legitimate means of capital punishment.

The bill will now go to Governor Henry McMaster’s desk, and if signed will make South Carolina the fourth US state to reintroduce execution by firing squad, alongside Utah, Mississippi, and Oklahoma.

🚆 Hmm, something doesn't add up here...

During an event marking Amtrak's 50th anniversary, US President Joe Biden told a story about a conductor named Angelo Negri who congratulated him for travelling 1.5 million miles during his "fourth or fifth year as vice president", although Negri had resigned from Amtrak in 1993 - while Biden was a US senator, not a vice president.

One more gaffe to add to the collection?

🗣 Republican candidate for California governor Caitlyn Jenner has weighed in on former President Donald Trump’s stint in the Oval Office, assessing him favourably as a “disruptor”

#URGENT | US reportedly supports Ukraine's entry into NATO sptnkne.ws/GhN4