Lavrov—who has served as Russia’s top diplomat since 2004—told reporters Friday the Kremlin is unhappy with American foreign conduct, whether related to Iran, the rest of the Middle East or nuclear arms control restrictions. Lavrov said the world “continues to be in turmoil,” according to Russia’s Tass state news agency, and blamed the U.S. and its western allies for the situation. He complained of “aggressive policies of certain western countries, and our American colleagues in particular, aimed at demolishing the security architecture established by international law....

Maybe we were just bad electricians. But every time I hear calls for government to “fix” American tech, I remember the danger of tearing apart working but complicated systems. As my dad repeatedly said: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Some have soured on the open and dynamic environment that enabled U.S. tech companies big and small to become the world’s most successful innovators. They want to uproot the entire tech industry from this lush environment and transplant it into a government-designed desert terrarium with glass walls of regulation—just because they dislike certain practices by a few companies....

But Brooks bucked those trends Sunday, as he opened the scoring for Hertha Berlin against Augsburg. In the 12th minute, a partially cleared corner fell to Valentin Stocker. The Swiss international delivered a drive into the area and Brooks redirected it home for the 1-0 lead. Berlin went on to win the contest 2-0, as it continues to chase European football next season. Goals aside, it is shaping up to be the defender’s best season with his club....

Pulisic’s spell on the Dortmund bench this winter came to an end when Reus went down with a thigh injury, with the teenager finding arguably the best form of his young career in the six weeks his teammate was out. So with Reus returning to the side, it would not have been shocking to see Pulisic drop out of the lineup. Instead Thomas Tuchel left the two in together and the move paid instant dividends against Eintracht Frankfurt, as Pulisic was able to find Reus with a low cross, which the German expertly flicked home with a backheel redirection....

On Tuesday, local news broadcaster WKBN 27 News reported that Californians had been “flooding” into Northern Baja looking to buy toilet paper, water, and other items. The desperate attempt to stock up on supplies comes as stores around the world have seen aisles holding toilet paper, soap, and other sanitary supplies, left empty by shoppers afraid they may be unable to get these supplies as the coronavirus pandemic worsens....

Although the economic recovery from the Great Recession has continued for more than 10 years, 38 percent of Americans are still concerned about keeping up with their bills, according to a survey from consumer finance company Bankrate released Wednesday. The survey, which was conducted earlier this month among 1,017 respondents, found that 29 percent of Americans were focused on savings and 19 percent were focused on paying debt. The survey found that individuals earning more money were more focused on saving....

On Saturday, Sanders reiterated his belief that he and Democratic legislators will continue to “rebuild our economy, get our kids back to school” with or without Republican support. Not a single Republican senator or member of the House of Representatives voted in favor of the COVID-19 relief package last week. The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan is “the most consequential piece of legislation for working families passed in many, many decades,” he told National Public Radio (NPR)....

Gallup found that favorable opinions of China have dropped to 20 percent while those of Russia are at 22 percent. For both nations the favorability scores were the lowest Gallup has ever recorded. The survey included 1,021 adults living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. The poll was conducted between February 3 and 18, and has a sampling error of 4 percentage points. American favorability of China plummeted over the past year as the world grappled with the coronavirus pandemic....

Last year, Texas protected free speech from Big Tech censorship by passing a statute finding that the largest social media platforms are “common carriers” and barring them from discriminating against speech on grounds of viewpoint. Common carriers are publicly accessible conduits for the goods or communications of others. Traditionally, because they are open to the public, serve a public function, enjoy legal privileges or have market dominance, they can be regulated to bar them from discriminating....

A report released by five U.N. agencies found that about 10 percent of people globally are likely undernourished and hunger eclipsed population growth in 2020. The recessions and decreased food access caused by the pandemic seem to have exacerbated the issue, the report said. “Yet even before the pandemic, hunger was spreading; progress on malnutrition lagged,” the U.N. wrote in the report. Children especially suffered, with 149 million under five years old estimated to have experienced stunted growth and 45 million approximated to be too thin for their height....

A few experts cite various possible reasons as to why interest in these broadcast criminal cases, particularly involving murder charges, are so high. “People find violence exciting and consequential,” Richard Felson, a criminology and sociology professor at Penn State University, told Newsweek. “They watch dog fights, bull fights, cock fights, fist fights, wrestling, murder stories and they rubber-neck car accidents.” In the case of Chauvin’s trial, Felson said there is a political and racial element, as well as strong partisanship....

The California-based engineering manager already has the most consecutive wins of any woman to have competed on the show, with her total of 37. She is also the highest-earning woman, thanks to a haul of $1,253,200. If she emerges victorious from Friday night’s episode, she will tie with Matt Amodio for second place in the ranking of most games won. As any self-respecting Jeopardy! fan will remember, Yale PhD candidate Amodio kept viewers captivated between the latter part of Season 37 and the first month of Season 38 with his 38-game run....

The engineering manager, who has been based in California for several years after relocating from her native Ohio, took to Twitter on Monday to reveal the incident. She wrote: “Hi all! So, first off: I’m fine. But I got robbed yesterday, lost my ID, credit cards, and phone. I then couldn’t really sleep last night, and have been dragging myself around all day trying to replace everything.” Schneider, who usually shares detailed post-game analyses of each of her Jeopardy!...

“She’s my best friend… my other sister,” singer-songwriter Juliette Ashby tells Newsweek. “She may have been a worldwide star, which she is, but for me she is just Amy and I miss her—everything about her. “It’s like I’ve lost a limb [from] my body, to be honest. The pain doesn’t get any easier. Time isn’t a healer. I guess you just keep breathing and life carries on, even if you are never the same again....

John Prine did have a brilliant idea: revisit great duet numbers with the likes of Lucinda Williams and Iris DeMent. He even gets George Jones’s onetime sidekick Melba Montgomery to reprise two of her own songs, including the 1963 “Let’s Invite Them Over”–the closest Nashville has come to the topic of spouse swapping. But neither Prine’s wry, alt.-country sensibility nor his ragged-but-right voice does the idea justice. He was shooting for second-take spontaneity and bemused affection; what comes across is casual condescension....

What, after all, could we really expect to learn about American society from a pathetic character like John William King, a strutting white supremacist with an appetite for torture, self-aggrandizement, profanity and murder? We knew well before King and his cronies came along that demented, violent individuals existed and that–inevitably, given America’s troubled racial history–some of those imbeciles would be racist. Sickening and outrageous as King’s actions were, they don’t tell us much about the role of race in today’s world....

Bush’s agenda isn’t isolationist. What Europeans do fear is that American unilateralism will take the place of collective decision making and, to use a favorite word of past American administrations, “degrade” the international climate. And not just in a figurative sense. Bush’s rejection of the Kyoto accords, meant to reduce carbon dioxide emissions around the world, shocked Europeans. Jettisoning any notion of the global good, he cast the question as primarily an American economic problem....

Captured in New York because of Colepaugh’s bumbling and betrayal, Gimpel tells his dramatic story in “Agent 146” (St. Martin’s). Originally published in Germany and Britain in 1957, the book is being released for the first time in the United States. Both men had been sentenced to hang, but they were unbelievably lucky. Before their sentences could be carried out, President Franklin D. Roosevelt died, which led to four weeks of mourning when no executions were allowed....

In 1906, a stunningly lovely 17-year-old girl forsakes her wealthy father’s home to become a postulant at the convent of the Sisters of the Crucifixion. The name of the order is important to what follows. Mariette Baptiste’s older sister is the mother superior. At first all the nuns are enchanted by this beautiful child’s piety and good nature. She is a temptation to some, who want to pet her or make her a special friend....