- Nebraska Republican Rep. Jeff Fortenberry has stepped down from all his House committee assignments after being indicted on federal foreign donor campaign finance charges this week.
- Alexey Navalny, jailed Putin critic believed to have been poisoned on Putin's orders at least once, has received the top EU human rights award for 2021, the Sakharov Prize.
- India is celebrating the distribution of its one billionth COVID-19 vaccine dose as mass vaccination efforts across the country are being hailed as successful.
- A bus bombing in Damascus has killed 14, the government of Bashar Assad responding with artillery shelling of rebel-held areas killing ten.
- Lawmakers in Brazil are walking back genocide accusations against President Jair Bolsonaro over the government's disastrous COVID response, but he still faces recommendations of nine charges.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. -- Benjamin Franklin
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