Chance to Unite, Ukraine Tensions, Chinese Games: Weekend Reads
U.S. President Joe Biden walks outside the White House on Monday.
Photographer: Michael Reynolds/EPAPresident Joe Biden said he would fulfill his promise to nominate the first Black woman on the U.S. Supreme Court after Justice Stephen Breyer announced he would retire.
Biden vowed to send U.S. troops to eastern Europe to confront Russia in the standoff with Ukraine, even as that country’s president bridled at U.S. warnings that an attack may be imminent. And Germany’s new chancellor, Olaf Schulz, is drawing criticism for taking a more moderate approach.
U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is refusing to quit amid an escalation of the so-called partygate scandal, into which police launched a formal probe this week.