Shanghai eases its two-month Covid-19 lockdown for 25 million residents. / BBC News Americans who catch Covid abroad are using a backdoor to get home: flying to Canada or Mexico, then crossing a land border. / The New York Times Helen Branswell interviews a WHO official on the challenges of
"The science is clear: Gun control saves lives." / Scientific American This week, the cruel irony of Texas Republicans' chant that they're "protecting children" has never been so grotesque. / Texas Monthly More from the hypocrisy desk: "If these leaders were truly worried about
Texas Governor Abbott cancels his appearance at today’s NRA meeting in Houston. / CNN More than a quarter of a million people died in Somalia's 2011 famine, most of them children. This year is looking to be the same. / Reuters The Supreme Court blocks a request from Louisiana
"Layla, 10, liked dancing to TikToks, won six races at the school's field day, and loved to swim." These are the victims of the Uvalde school shooting. / BuzzFeed News The Uvalde school district had recently doubled its security budget, which included enhanced safety protocols, new monitoring
Hacked files from Xinjiang reveal new evidence of abuse of Uyghurs at detention camps, including a shoot-to-kill policy for escapees. / Bloomberg From 1825 to the present day, France and the US have bilked Haiti's economy out of billions of dollars. / The New York Times According to
A Ukrainian photographer documented the siege of the Azovstal steel works. Before his capture by Russia, he put his pictures online to be shared. / The Guardian Russia bans 963 Americans from entering, including President Biden and Mark Zuckerberg, though not Obama or Trump. / USA Today Biden says he'll
Pennsylvania's Republican primary for Senate is likely headed for a statewide recount. / The Associated Press An interactive record of proposed redistricting maps shows whether they'll benefit Democrats or Republicans in the midterms. / FiveThirtyEight A roundup of recent bills that passed (or failed) in the House or
Stunning video by a Ukrainian medic who recorded her time in Maripol—before she was captured by Russian troops. / Associated Press See also: A visual investigation of video evidence shows a group of Ukrainian men were in the custody of Russian soldiers before being executed. / The New York Times Related:
Here is one possible future for Covid-19: some people get reinfected many times, and a few experience symptoms for months or years. / The New York Times This op-ed is dully written but ultimately correct: when we discuss long Covid, we need to include medicine's uncertainty about
A 10-year project finds, compared to those who received care, women denied abortions suffer more economically and mentally. / NPR Awareness of abortion medication remains dangerously low—and as recently as 2017, most people trying to end pregnancies on their own did so without pills. / The 19th A Michigan judge
