Mayor Eric Adams of New York City announced that professional athletes and performers working in and based in the city would no longer be required to show proof of vaccination against the coronavirus.

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine again pleaded with the NATO alliance for military aid as his country pushes back against the Russian invasion.

Makoto Oniki, Japan's deputy defense minister, said that the test of the missile, which landed in his country's exclusive economic zone, was 'a threat to peace and security.'

Ned Price, a spokesman for the State Department, confirmed that a consular officer had visited the basketball star who is being held in a detention center near Moscow on drug charges. If convicted, she could face 10 years in prison.

At least one person was killed and several were injured after two tornadoes struck New Orleans and the surrounding area.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson strongly refuted Republican accusations claiming that she has been soft in sentencing child sex-abuse defendants.

Investigators were still working to determine what caused the China Eastern Airlines flight carrying 132 people to crash in southern China, officials said.

The Senate Judiciary Committee delivered opening statements in the confirmation hearings for President Biden's nominee to the Supreme Court.

More than 40 marines were killed in a Russian rocket attack on military barracks in the city of Mykolaiv, according to a senior Ukrainian official.

Three Russian astronauts boarded the International Space Station wearing flight suits of striking colors – yellow and blue, similar to the colors of Ukraine's flag.