Your Saturday Briefing: Tensions in Munich, Carnival Is Back

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Hello from New York and the start of a long weekend in an honor of US presidents past and present. Before you get to commemorating...

Vice President Kamala Harris joins UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and other leaders for the 59th Munich Security Conference, which takes place as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine nears the one-year mark. Harris, in an address, said the US has concluded Russia committed “crimes against humanity” in Ukraine and vowed that Moscow would be held to account for its actions. Europe’s first high-intensity war since 1945 has set off a massive arms race with munitions factories as critical as troops.