President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris told Cherelle Griner they would pursue “every avenue” to bring her wife, Brittney Griner, home from Russia.

Chinese health authorities were actively deterred from requiring vaccinations earlier in the COVID-19 pandemic but nonetheless succeeded at vaccinating nearly the entire population of 1.4 billion people.

Iceland, Denmark, Norway and Estonia join Canada in ratifying the accession protocols for Finland and Sweden to join NATO

In March, the Biden administration began tapping one million barrels of oil per day from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), supposedly in a bid to get a grip on gas prices. 

The tobacco industry has long claimed smoking was a choice, but that was never true.

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said he had asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to open a credit line for fuel imports and resume Aeroflot flights to Sri Lanka.