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Plus the Logistic Olympics and Lunar New Year begins. View in browser | nytimes.com Continue reading the main story January 31, 2022 By Remy Tumin Good evening. Here's the latest at the end of Monday. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield of the U.S. greets Ukraine's ambassador, Sergiy Kyslytsya, at the U.N. Richard Drew/Associated Press 1. The U.S. and Russia engaged in a public diplomatic brawl at the U.N. Security Council over the Ukraine crisis. "The situation we are facing in Europe is urgent and dangerous," said Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador. "Russia's actions strike at the very heart of the U.N. charter." Russia objected to having the meeting at all , calling it "an attempt to mislead the international community" and an example of "megaphone diplomacy." The meeting of 15 nations, requested by the U.S., represented the highest-profile arena for the two powers to sway world opinion over Ukraine. As expected...

Columns and commentary on news, politics, business, and technology from the Intelligencer team. Stay informed about business, politics, technology, and where they intersect. Subscribe now for unlimited access to Intelligencer and everything New York . On February 26, 2012, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida, because as a Black boy walking in a gated community, he was deemed "suspicious." Zimmerman's acquittal appalled a nation often willfully blind to the vulnerability of living while Black. Ten years later, "Black Lives Matter" has grown from a hashtag to a protester's cry to a cultural force that has reshaped American politics, society, and daily life. It is, at the same time, a specific collection of organizations and people whose decisions have attracted both applause and criticism; whose actions have been a source of intrigue; whose personal relationships have ...