Time - USA (2020-05-18)

4 Time May 18, 2020

For the Record

‘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

SOURCES: ABC, AP

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