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The U.S. reportedly has intelligence that, in the event of a Russian-led invasion of Ukraine, Moscow may "target prominent political opponents, anti-corruption activists, and Belarusian and Russian dissidents living in exile," Foreign Policy reports. Though no such invasion has yet occured, Western officials as well as President Biden have cautioned it could go down any day now.

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This week's question: The Razzie Awards, which recognize the cinematic world's least impressive efforts, created the category "Worst Performance by Bruce Willis in a 2021 Movie" and awarded Willis eight trophies. In seven words or fewer, come up with a new Razzie category honoring the worst of Hollywood.

Police moved in to arrest Canadian protesters in downtown Ottawa Friday morning, with the goal of ending weekslong demonstrations that have transformed into a referendum on the country's COVID-19 restrictions and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's handling of the pandemic, The Associated Press reports.

Nick Kristof and and the recently ousted members of the San Francisco school board have something in common — and it's not just that none of them will be serving in elected office anytime soon. 

A colorful fighter, a crashing skier, and more

U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has COVID, the government official announced Friday.

Former Minnesota police officer Kim Potter has received a two-year sentence for the killing of Daunte Wright. 

Prince Harry wants to bring his children to the U.K. but doesn't feel safe doing so, his lawyers have said.

The president of the International Olympic Committee — Thomas Bach — offered what is viewed as a "rare" criticism of a Chinese Olympic official during a news conference on Friday, The New York Times reports.

Canada's legislature has been canceled, at least for the day. In a statement Friday morning, the speaker of the House of Commons announced the body would not sit due to operations to clear now-famous "Freedom Convoy" trucker protests in downtown Ottawa. 

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are battling in court once again, this time over the sale of her interest their winery. 

U.S. Rep. Jim Hagedorn (R-Minn.) died Thursday following a battle with cancer, the lawmaker's wife announced Friday morning, per Axios.

The gap in total per capita COVID-19 deaths in Republican and Democratic counties has grown a lot wider since New York Times data journalist David Leonhardt chronicled the red-blue divide in November, at the beginning of the Omicron wave. 

A live stream of planes attempting to land at London's Heathrow Airport might be Friday's hottest morning show.

Kanye West is getting ready to drop his latest album, but don't look for it on the major streaming platforms. 

The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration released a new report this week predicting a sea level rise of roughly one foot within the next 30 years. The consequences for coastal communities could be quite severe: Damaging floods would be 10 times as common as they are today, and would reach much further inland. The rising waters won't stop there. Just based on emissions to date, the report predicts sea levels rising at least another foot by the century's end; if emissions aren't curbed... Читать дальше...

The intelligence community enjoys enviable status in popular culture. In shows like Homeland and films like the Jason Bourne series, the agency is presented as hyper-vigilant, super-competent, and brutally effective. Older works and period pieces place intelligence agents in a clubby, vaguely aristocratic milieu. Recent depictions emphasize their seamless immersion in foreign cultures and the high-tech resources they deploy, setting scenes in teeming souks and banks of shining computers. 

The fourth season of Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel arrives Friday as a kind of postcard from our recent past. The last time we saw Midge was in December 2019, when the show's third season dropped in its entirety; Maisel's return in 2022 raises the inevitable question of whether its joke-a-second, madcap reverie can still be a welcome diversion, or if it'll be a difficult reminder of the gone world.

Russia appears to be getting even readier to invade Ukraine, and "speaking of international conflicts, the Olympics," Stephen Colbert said on The Late Show. Because a Russian doping scandal has postponed the team skating medals, the Beijing organizers are giving medalists commemorative Olympic torches. 'Yes, that's the smart thing to do when you've really pissed someone off, hand them a torch," he said. "Evidently they were out of Olympic pitchforks."

The women's individual figure skating competition stole the Beijing Olympics — and specifically the Russian skaters — and not in an entirely good way. "The gold medalist said she felt empty," The Associated Press recaps. "The silver medalist pledged never to skate again. The favorite left in tears without saying a word."

When their small town in New York needed volunteers for its ambulance service, a group of teenagers were the first to respond.

President Biden, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and numerous other U.S. officials delivered the same dire message on Thursday: All signs point to Russia invading Ukraine within days.