A jump in coronavirus cases overwhelmed hospitals in Hong Kong, leaving some patients waiting on sidewalks. The city had kept the pandemic largely in check until the Omicron wave, recording no local cases for much of 2021.

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the agency would soon issue new guidance, including on masks, for the next phase of the pandemic.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police deliver an update on efforts to clear protesters who blockaded the Emerson, Manitoba border crossing.

Jens Stoltenberg, the NATO secretary general, holds a news conference during the alliance's defense ministers' meeting.

NATO's secretary general said the alliance had not seen any signs of Russian military de-escalation on Ukraine's border, and that NATO defense ministers would consider stationing additional troops in central and southeastern member states.

The Honduran authorities detained former President Juan Orlando Hernández after they received an American extradition request claiming that he participated in a 'violent drug-trafficking conspiracy.'

The suit, filed by the family of Halyna Hutchins, the film's cinematographer who was fatally shot by Mr. Baldwin on the set, accused him and other defendants of reckless conduct and dangerous cost-cutting measures.

President Biden said his administration had not verified Russia's claim that it was pulling troops back from Ukraine's border and vowed to pursue a diplomatic resolution to prevent an invasion.

The settlement also required that Remington, the maker of the AR-15-style weapon used to massacre 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012, release thousands of pages of internal company documents.

President Biden gives remarks on tensions over Ukraine, after Russia announced that some troops would be pulled back from the Ukrainian border.