Former top Trump Russia adviser details the sharp contrast between the former President and Biden  —  Fiona Hill doesn't know whether President Joe Biden can lead Western allies to ward off Russia's threat to Ukraine.  But unlike his predecessor, he's trying.

Vast Leak Exposes How Credit Suisse Served Strongmen and Spies  —  Leaked data on more than 18,000 accounts shows that the Swiss bank missed or ignored red flags.  —  The client rosters of Swiss banks are among the world's most closely guarded secrets, protecting the identities …

Alexander Gabuev writes from Moscow on why Vladimir Putin and his entourage want war  —  Elites have hijacked Russia and conflated the country's interests with their own  —  ANYWHERE YOU turn in Moscow, it's easy to find members of the Russian elite who wonder why the West thinks that war …

Security Alert  —  Event: According to media sources, there have been threats of attacks against shopping centers, railway and metro stations, and other public gathering places in major urban areas, including Moscow and St. Petersburg as well as in areas of heightened tension along the Russian border with Ukraine.

The C.D.C. Isn't Publishing Large Portions of the Covid Data It Collects  —  The agency has withheld critical data on boosters, hospitalizations and, until recently, wastewater analyses.  —  For more than a year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has collected data on hospitalizations …

Right now, a U.S. toddler is starving because of Pat Toomey, Joe Manchin and 49 other Senate cowards  —  It was exactly two years ago this month that a working single mom turned antipoverty activist from Wheeling, W.V., named Amy Jo Hutchison sat before a U.S. House committee on Capitol Hill …

Republicans wince at Wisconsin GOP crack-up  —  MILWAUKEE — Timothy Ramthun's entry into Wisconsin's gubernatorial primary last weekend was the car wreck no one could look away from.  —  His campaign is built around the preposterous idea the 2020 election could still be overturned …

Black female high school student is identified as vandal behind racist graffiti that saw Sacramento high school's water fountains scrawled with ‘white’ and ‘colored’  — The McClatchy High School student who scrawled the Jim Crow-era graffiti was not identified

No bail decision yet for Tamara Lich, convoy protest organizer  —  Lich told court she has few assets and her bank accounts have been frozen  —  A second major organizer of the so-called Freedom Convoy will have to wait a few more days before an Ontario Court of Justice judge decides whether to grant her bail.

PG INVESTIGATION |  Shadowy money built steel empire — with bank's help  —  Months after Ukraine oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky and his partners abandoned an Ohio steel plant and left scores of workers without jobs, financial crime experts at Deutsche Bank shot up a troubling alert.