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.

U.S. claims Russia has list of Ukrainians ‘to be killed or sent to camps’ following a military occupation  —  The United States has informed the United Nations it has credible information showing that Moscow is compiling lists of Ukrainians “to be killed or sent to camps following a military occupation …

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 …

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 …

America's last man standing in Moscow  —  John Sullivan was barely out of his teens when his uncle William, a Foreign Service officer who served as the last U.S. ambassador in Tehran, was briefly taken captive at his embassy during Iran's revolutionary tumult in 1979.

The Atlantic published 10X more articles lamenting school Covid protocols than it did on the sunsetting of a Tax Credit that threw 3.7M children back into poverty.  —  Despite their constant consternation over covid protocols and their effects on “the children”, The Atlantic has a limited framework for what harms to children matter.

Inside NYC's skyrocketing anti-Asian violence: How hate speech led to hate crimes  —  Three days after US officials first used the term “China Virus” on a national news broadcast, a barrage of anti-Asian attacks began in New York City.  —  Within hours, two Asian Americans were separately assaulted …

Mexico to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz: At least our presidential candidates accept defeat  —  Mexico's president and U.S. ambassador needle Texas senator over Donald Trump's ongoing lies about 2020 election after Cruz claims ‘deepening civil unrest in Mexico.’  —  MEXICO CITY — Sen. Ted Cruz …

Florida governor: school districts that defied no-mask mandate to lose $200m  —  Ron DeSantis is backing a bill that would strip education funding from Democratic counties that retained Covid precautions  —  Florida's Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, is backing a controversial proposal …

Russian generals pray for peace at burial sites of Chabad rebbes  —  15 Russian military men arrived to pray after hearing all prayers are answered at a Jewish cemetery in the small town of Lyubavichi.  —  Some 15 Russian generals prayed for peace last week at the Jewish cemetery in Lyubavichi …