The gap.
Russia says it will "fundamentally cut back military activity in the direction of Kyiv and Chernihiv" prior to peace talks in Turkey. / The Guardian
G7 countriesagree to ignore Moscow's demand to pay for Russian natural gas in rubles. / PBS
Headline of the week (darkly): "Holocaust survivors flee from Ukraine to Germany for safety." / The Associated Press
New reporting finds a seven-hour, 37-minute gap in the official White House phone logs from January 6, 2021. / CBS News
Critics say the National Institutes of Health is fumbling its work on studying Long Covid despite $1.2 billion in funding. / STAT
For red and blue states, a striking divide in Covid-19 death rates persists two years later. / ABC News
More than four million Americans quit or changed jobs in February. Employers reported 11.3 million job openings. / The Washington Post
The Democratic Republic of Congo becomes the biggest country in the EAC, East Africa's trading bloc. / Quartz Africa
The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter shares an image of the Sun with 10 times the resolution of a 4K television screen. / VICE
Unrelated: Photographs of rural Hungary's declining tavern culture. / It's Nice That
Kevin Roose's recent guide to crypto gets knocked (and annotated) for being "a thinly-veiled advertisement for cryptocurrency that appeared to have received little in the way of fact-checking or critical editorial scrutiny." / The (edited) Latercomer's Guide to Crypto
Verizon customers report receiving spam messages from their own phones. / The Verge
A young Chinese botanical illustrator discovers a new plant species in an old painting. / Atlas Obscura
See also: Every Tuesday, illustrator Dan Kelly draws a dog. / Twitter
It's the final week of TMN's 2022 Tournament of Books, presented by Field Notes, and today is the Zombie Round's opening match. / The Tournament of Books
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