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
Luke Mogelson reviews how MAGA Republicans have leaped from "backing the blue" to attacking law-enforcement officials. / The New Yorker What your leaders in Washington worked on this week. / Wake Up to Politics How newspaper covers in Britain and around the world are covering Queen Elizabeth's
CIA director on Putin's war: "There is going to be long-term damage done to the Russian economy and to generations of Russians." / The Guardian An elected county official has been arrested in connection with the murder of a Las Vegas journalist who was in the
Ukraine's president says his troops have recaptured several settlements from Russian forces. / Radio Free Europe France's dearth of Dijon mustard isn't about the war in Ukraine so much as Burgundian farmers and their crop yields. / BBC News By the end of 2022, China will
