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Germany announced a large increase in its defense funding and signaled it will be sending arms to Ukraine. The European Union announced all Russian aircraft will be blocked from EU airspace.

NPR's Leila Fadel travels to the Polish-Ukrainian border to talk with some of the tens of thousands of Ukrainians who have fled their homes in recent days as Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine.

Russian vodka is being pulled from many shelves and the country's soccer team may find few willing opponents in the near term. But for the most part, experts say, the protests are largely symbolic.

The CDC's new guidance means most of the U.S. population is considered to be at low or medium risk for COVID-19, and the agency has given the green light to take masks off.

Mayor Eric Adams made the announcement as the city saw a dramatic drop in coronavirus infections.

Russia's central bank sharply raised a benchmark interest rate to combat steep losses in the ruble's value as sanctions crimp Russian economic activity.

Nocturnal rodent, the Stephens' kangaroo rat, was on the endangered species list but this month it was reclassified as threatened.

The hospitality greeting Ukrainians fleeing the violence in their native country has highlighted the stark differences in treatment given to migrants and refugees from the Middle East and Africa.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg about the governor's announcement to lift coronavirus restrictions and his options while the virus is still widespread in his city.

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Kristina Berdynskykh, a reporter with a daily English-language news site in Kyiv, who like other Ukrainians who haven't fled the country, is sheltering underground.