El Paso, Texas has declared a state of emergency and requested additional resources from the state due to a surge in border crossings and overwhelmed law enforcement.
The New Zealand Security Intelligence Service has advised the public to report individuals who express dissent towards Covid-19 mandates, including mandatory vaccines, as potential "terrorists," citing "radicalized" political views potentially fueled by "conspiracy theories."
A large anti-NATO rally was held in Paris, France on Saturday by the right-wing Les Patriotes party, with protesters calling for a review of France's policies towards the US-led bloc and Moscow and denouncing anti-Russia sanctions.
Despite high vaccination rates in China, the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation projects that the country will see an "explosion of cases and over a million deaths through 2023," with peak cases and approximately 322,000 deaths expected around April 1, when around one-third of the population is projected to have been infected.
A federal appeals court in New York City ruled on Friday that transgender athletes in Connecticut are allowed to participate on female sports teams, upholding a lower court's dismissal of a lawsuit filed by cisgender runners.
A petition containing over 15,000 signatures has been submitted to the Church of England by a group of parents and members of the General Synod calling for the removal of guidelines promoting transgenderism in elementary schools.
