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A man walks past a currency exchange office in central Moscow on Feb. 28. The U.S. and its allies have imposed severe economic sanctions on Russia since its invasion of Ukraine.
Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty ImagesEvents over the past week have brought Russia precariously close to its first default on foreign debt since the Bolshevik Revolution over a century ago.
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Ukrainian Holocaust survivors flee war again — this time to Germany National News
Germany has welcomed dozens of the oldest refugees fleeing Ukraine — those who survived the Holocaust during World War II. They've now narrowly escaped death for the second time in their lives.
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The new White House COVID czar calls for calm as cases rise, driven by BA.2 National News
The country is in a good place in the pandemic, but we should prepare for an unpredictable future, according to the latest assessment from the new White House coronavirus boss.
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South Dakota's attorney general is impeached over a fatal crash National News
The state's House impeached Jason Ravnsborg over a 2020 fatal crash in which he initially told authorities he thought he had struck a deer or another large animal.
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U.S. calls for the immediate release of a vocal Kremlin critic detained in Moscow National News
Vladimir Kara-Murza was sentenced to 15 days in jail for disobeying police orders on Tuesday, the day after his arrest. The opposition leader has been speaking out against Russia's war in Ukraine.
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A dictator's son runs for Philippines president in a bid to revive his family's power National News
Ahead of presidential elections taking place in May, Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. is banking on voters' nostalgia for his late father's period of dictatorial rule in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Teen drug overdose deaths rose sharply in 2020, driven by fentanyl-laced pills National News
While adult overdoses surged in the last decades, teens hadn't seen the same kind of death rates. But now fatal overdoses nearly doubled in one year and continued to rise in 2021.
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'Pandemic, Inc.' author says financial predators made more than $1 billion off COVID National News
In his new book, ProPublica reporter J. David McSwane says a shocking number of companies that received funds at the beginning of the pandemic to distribute protective gear had no experience doing so.
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