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‘IF IT WAS MY
WIFE WHO DID
IT, THEN THIS
WOULD NOT
HAVE BEEN A
VIRAL TWEET.’
DAVID MOININA SENGEH,
Sierra Leone’s Minister of
Basic and Senior Secondary
Education, speaking to the
BBC about the image he
shared of himself attending
a virtual meeting with his
10-month-old daughter
strapped to his back
‘We are
fighters,
and we’ll
continue
to fight
together
for this.’
ALEX MORGAN,
U.S. women’s national soccer
team co-captain, on Good
Morning America on May 4,
after a judge decided against
the team in the gender-pay-
discrimination portion of their
lawsuit against U.S. Soccer
‘When that
sexual assault
happened, it
was devastating.
I mean, he
was like my
father’s age. He
was my boss.’
TARA READE,
a former Senate aide who claims that former
Vice President Joe Biden sexually assaulted her in 1993,
speaking with TIME on May
‘They always
said, “Lincoln,
nobody got
treated worse
than Lincoln.”
I believe I am
treated worse.’
DONALD TRUMP,
U.S. President, at the Lincoln
Memorial during a Fox News
virtual town hall on May
200
gigatons
Average ice loss per year
from Greenland’s ice sheet,
according to a NASA study
released on April
13%
Rough percentage of Iceland’s
population that has been
tested for COVID-19, likely
the highest per capita of any
country; businesses there
reopened on May 4 following
six weeks of lockdown
GOOD NEWS
of the week
After a weeks-long delay
because of the pandemic,
South Korea’s baseball
season began May 5
(minus spectators); the
same day, the country
reported only three new
COVID-19 cases
‘I’m saying
unequivocally
it never, never
happened.’
JOE BIDEN,
presumptive Democratic presidential nominee,
addressing Tara Reade’s sexual-assault claim
against him on MSNBC on May 1