Security forces in Russia detain more than 1,300 people at protests denouncing Putin's mobilization. / The Guardian Russian men explain how they're trying to resist Putin's call-up of soldiers. / BBC News Protests spread in Iran after a 22-year-old woman is killed
One-way flights out of Russia sell out as Putin mobilizes 300,000 reservists. / Reuters In what Ukraine and Western leaders are calling a sham referendum, Russian-controlled regions in Ukraine are voting on whether to become part of Russia. / Associated Press Ranking states based on where it's
President Biden says the pandemic is over. Whether or not it was a gaffe, his health advisors seek to clarify. / Politico Helen Branswell: Reaching the end of a pandemic is not like driving out of one county into the next. / STAT Recalling the New York Times recent investigation into politicians
Citing concerns over authoritarianism and money mismanagement, the EU's executive branch recommends suspending funding to Hungary. / ABC News Russia looks to tighten its "comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation" with China. / Associated Press See also: "How the war in Ukraine turned Moscow into Beijing's
A Venezuelan migrant says he was paid $200 to recruit people in San Antonio to go to Florida, where they were then flown to Martha's Vineyard. / San Antonio Report Abbott and DeSantis's transporting of migrants echos the 1962 Reverse Freedom Rides concocted by white southern segregationists.
The weather phenomenon La Niña has formed for the third consecutive year in the Pacific. / BBC News What La Niña is, how it forms, and why it poses a $1 trillion problem for homes and businesses. / Bloomberg The White House wants to develop 15 gigawatts of new floating offshore wind
Railroads and union representatives reach a tentative labor agreement, averting a rail strike that could have sent the US economy into a tailspin. / The New York Times, Associated Press Photos and videos of the military equipment Russian troops left behind while fleeing Izyum. / The Washington Post Patagonia's owners
Ed Yong: Brain fog, one of Long Covid's worst symptoms, leaves people struggling with minds "that are less nimble than before." / The Atlantic China's zero-Covid policy is stressful for students, but perhaps much worse for their teachers. / Sixth Tone Europe follows the US,
The Justice Dept. approves one of Trump's special master candidates—and escalates its Jan. 6 investigation, issuing around 40 subpoenas in the past week. / The Washington Post, NBC News "In Texas, oncologists say they now wait for pregnant women with cancer to get sicker before they treat
"They asked, in Ukrainian, 'is anyone alive?'" New momentum in the biggest war in Europe since WWII. / BBC News A new report says an estimated 50 million people are victims of forced marriage and forced labor. / CNN China emerges as an IMF competitor by doling out
