The prospect that the U.S. and its allies could impose new sanctions on Russian oil pushed energy prices sharply higher. The average price of gasoline in the U.S. hit $4.06 per gallon.
Before the war, Ukrainian Rehina Solodovnik tutored Russian students online. The teaching has stopped, but she's still getting text messages. "I am so sorry for our government," one student said.
LGBTQ people have always been under stress in Ukraine. As they flee their country, they're arriving in places that are even more punitive to their community.
After Tuesday's speech, the president saw a significant jump with Democrats and independents, as he may be seeing a rally-around-the-Ukrainian-flag moment.
The Supreme Court reversed a federal appeals court in Boston that had overturned Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's death sentence. The 2013 attack killed three people.
U.S. employers added 678,000 jobs in February as the unemployment rate fell to 3.8%, from 4% in January. The Federal Reserve hopes to curb inflation without stalling job growth.
At Berlin's main train station, hundreds of volunteers distribute food, hot drinks, diapers, toys, warm coats and a helping hand to the Ukrainians disembarking daily.
While Russian artists and institutions grapple with how they are viewed internationally, American cultural organizations make what amounts to foreign policy decisions.
The decision involving Abu Zubaydah, a terrorism detainee at Guantanamo Bay, likely will make it harder for victims to expose secret government misconduct in the future.
The deal, hashed out over weeks of intense negotiations, raises the amount paid by the Sacklers by more than $1 billion. In exchange, the family members win immunity from civil opioid lawsuits.
Africans and South Asians studying and working in Ukraine have had added difficulty leaving the country because of discriminatory treatment by local authorities.
Military hearings are underway in the drowning of eight Marines and a sailor in July 2020. They died off the coast of California in a training exercise gone wrong.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell says the central bank is prepared to begin raising interest rates this month to fight inflation despite economic uncertainty after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
