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US President Joe Biden hosts a screening of "American Born Chinese" in celebration of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on May 8, 2023. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

White House bans NY Post from event

The White House Press Office had refused to allow the New York Post to attend President Biden’s midday public engagement on Monday.

E. Jean Carroll leaves federal court in New York, Monday, May 8, 2023. A jury heard closing arguments from a lawyer for the advice columnist who says Donald Trump sexually attacked her in a department store in 1996. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Verdict reached in E. Jean Carroll vs Trump Trial

The jury has found former President
Donald Trump liable for battery in a civil trial brought forth by writer E. Jean Carroll. Additionally, the jury has found him guilty of defamation.

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the government via a video conference at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence, outside Moscow, on April 19, 2023. (Photo by Gavriil GRIGOROV / SPUTNIK / AFP) (Photo by GAVRIIL GRIGOROV/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images

Putin: the West is waging ‘real war’ on Russia

As the Kremlin’s military launched another cruise missile barrage at Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the West’s “untamed ambitions, arrogance, and impunity” are igniting “a real war” against the nation during his nation’s customary Victory Day ceremony on Moscow’s Red Square on Tuesday.

Researcher Omar Garcia works with a bat (Sturnira lilium) for zoonoses prevention studies at a ranch in El Corral community in Tzucacab, Yucatan state, Mexico on March 29, 2023. - As night fell in Mexico's Yucatan jungle, veterinarian Omar Garcia extracted blood and fluids from a bat as part of an investigation aimed at preventing the next potential pandemic. The goal of the Franco-Mexican project is to detect diseases -- known as zoonoses -- transmitted from animals to humans in tropical climates. (Photo by Pedro PARDO / AFP) (Photo by PEDRO PARDO/AFP via Getty Images)

NIH restarts bat research grant

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has restored the bat research grant three years after former President Donald Trump put pressure on the organization to halt the funding to a U.S. team researching bat CORONAVIRUS with collaborators in Wuhan, China.

CAIRO, EGYPT - NOVEMBER 10: Arab foreign ministers meet at the Arab League November 10, 2002 in Cairo, Egypt. The ministers were meeting to discuss the new United Nations resolution on disarming Iraq. (Photo by Norbert Schiller/Getty Images)

Arab League reinstates Bashar Assad’s Syria

The Arab league has agreed to reinstate Syria, taking another step towards bringing back Syrian President Bashar Assad back into the fold of the league after a 12-year suspension.

Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks with US First Lady Jill Biden, (C) Finnegan Biden, granddaughter of U.S. President Joe Biden (2nd L) and his wife Akshata Murty (L) as they attend the Big Lunch party at Downing Street on May 7, 2023 in London, England. Dignitaries and guests will include the First Lady of the United States of America, Dr. Jill Biden. (Photo by Frank Augstein - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Jill Biden gets backlash for wearing $15k dress to lunch

First Lady Jill Biden is facing backlash as she wore a $15,900 white lambskin cutout dress to lunch on Downing Street in London to celebrate the coronation of King Charles III.