First Thing: Biden to warn Xi against backing Putin
Leaders of China and US will hold first phone call since invasion of Ukraine. Plus, carcinogenic chemical found in 27% of US personal care products
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In a phone call today, Joe Biden will warn his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, that he will face costs" if Beijing rescues fellow authoritarian ally Russia from intense western sanctions aimed at punishing Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
How are the peace negotiations going? Not well. Russia was accused by the UK, US, France, Albania, Ireland and Norway of war crimes, and Paris claimed Vladimir Putin was only pretending to be interested in negotiating a peace deal.
Did anyone survive the theatre shelling in Mariupol? Yes. It looks like the basement, which was used as a bomb shelter, held. About 130 people have been rescued so far from the basement, officials said.
What else is happening? Here's what we know on day 23 of the invasion.
Who wrote the report? The publicly available version of the Dominion report names as its author Katherine Friess, a volunteer on the Trump post-election legal team. But it was in fact produced by the senior Trump White House policy aide Joanna Miller, according to the original version of the document.
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