Anthony Fauci, the director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, said it was too early to declare victory over the coronavirus, despite a falling number of cases.

"We don’t want to declare victory prematurely because we still have a ways to go. But the more and more people that can get vaccinated, as a community, the community will be safer and safer," Fauci said.

BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors made some eyebrow-raising calls “to end” Israel during a Harvard Law School event in 2015 that have recently resurfaced online following the activist’s controversial resignation from the BLM Global Network Foundation: https://youtu.be/zEpd2-0AWxc

🤔 It seems that it took Europe 8 years to realize that Edward Snowden was right.

Just like in 2013, world media is shaking off headlines like "US spies on allies."

Donald Trump delivered a speech honouring the country’s fallen veterans, as the US celebrates Memorial Day.

🗣 On this Memorial Day, we remember the fallen heroes who took their last breaths in defense of our Nation, our families, our citizens, and our sacred freedoms. The depth of their devotion, the steel of their resolve, and the purity of their patriotism has no equal in human history.

🇫🇷 Liberty is the gift that keeps being given?

France will send the US a second Statue of Liberty on the US’s Independence Day as a symbol of the two countries’ shared history and ‘spirit of friendship.’

The new statue will be 30 times smaller that the first Lady Liberty, however, and Americans will be able to enjoy it until 2031, as France wants it back in 10 years, defining the event as a loan from the Conservatoire du Quai d’Orsay museum.

🤔 Can a Myanmar-like military coup happen in the US?

Well, according to ex-Trump adviser Michael Flynn it "should"

During a QAnon conference in Texas, Flynn was asked why what happened in Myanmar can’t happen in the US.
"No reason. I mean, it should happen here,” he is heard saying.

This is what happens when you miss history class...as well as just not being attentive enough

US representative Matt Gaetz was asked to retweet a photo of a twitter user's grandpa who is "his big fan." But the grandpa's photo turned out to be an image of Lee Harvey Oswald, the killer of US President John F. Kennedy, and was posted by a Twitter user who went by the name "Matt Gaetz is a pedo"

And the lawmaker did just that.

🥊 Internet celebrity boxer Jake Paul and former UFC champion Tyron Woodley have reportedly agreed to a deal for a boxing match.

🇩🇪🇺🇸🇷🇺A high-ranking German delegation has left for the United States this week to discuss Russia's Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project, Bloomberg reported citing the Funke media group.

#LIVE | Candles light up streets of Greenwood in honour of Tulsa race massacre victims: https://youtu.be/A8VsOojg_aI

The United States is alarmed by the presence of Chinese forces at Cambodia’s naval base, the US State Department said: https://sptnkne.ws/Gx7e

🇺🇸President Joe Biden has so far shown little resolve to tackle gun violence head-on, Manuel Oliver, whose son was killed in the 2018 school shooting, told Sputnik.
Oliver's son, Joaquin, 17, was one of the victims of the shooting that took place at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida in February 2018.
"I don’t see real intentions of solving the problem from Capitol Hill. Instead, I see a debate that became part of a 'normal way' of society. America has accepted Gun Violence as part of our identity and tradition, to the point that in some cases people feel proud of it," Oliver said.

👸 Marilyn Monroe would've turned 95 on 1 June 2021

Russia has no illusions that breakthroughs will be achieved or historical decisions will be made after the June 16 meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart, Joe Biden, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

"As for the upcoming summit in Geneva on 16 June of the presidents of Russia and the United States, we are not creating illusions, we are not trying to create the impression that there will be some breakthroughs, some historic fateful decisions, but the very fact of a conversation between the two leading nuclear powers at the level of top officials, of course, is important, this needs to be supported in every possible way," Lavrov said at a press conference.

Geopolitical risk consultant Sami Hamdi gives his two cents on the situation in Afghanistan amid the withdrawal of UK and US forces. Was the invasion a success?