It's Day 91 of the MLB Lockout 🥎🔒.
On #TheUpdate this Wednesday, the miles-long convoy of Russian tanks and other vehicles continues to slowly advance towards Kyiv. Russia's escalation comes as President Biden in his State Of The Union speech last night warned that if Russian President Vladimir Putin didn't "pay a price" for the invasion, the aggression wouldn't stop with just one country. Ukraine's Defense Ministry said it had evidence that Belarus, a Russian ally, is preparing to send troops into Ukraine. Meanwhile, the International Paralympic Committee says that Russians and Belarusians at the Winter Paralympics in Beijing will compete as "neutral athletes" because of their countries' roles in the war against Ukraine. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇵🇱
Locally, New York City's coronavirus contact tracing program will end its universal tracing efforts towards the end of April. Officials are citing a significant caseload drop, high vaccination rates, new treatments, and new CDC guidance released Monday that said universal contact tracing was not recommended. Two British executives have been charged with cheating investors out of millions of dollars in a suspected scam that promised investments used for loans were backed by fine wines. In Phoenix, Arizona, the family of a little girl who was killed when her mother's car was rear-ended by a Jeep on a freeway can sue the SUV's manufacturer for wrongful death because it didn't install automatic emergency braking devices. And a porn star has shared the "cringe" message sent to her by her uncle after he discovered what she did for a living. Karlie Brooks (her stage name) had managed to keep it a secret from her family for five years- until now. 📱💦
