From Jenna Orkin

Agents with Homeland Security Investigations push to break away from ICE, saying negative reputation hurts their work Paris wants to make the Seine swimmable for the Olympics

Record snowfall and heavy rains lash west coast from Oregon to southern California

China hoards over half the world's grain, pushing up global prices

Testy ties with U.S. and Australia could be prodding China to boost food reserves

Japan and China agree to deploy a military hotlineUS displaying dangerous trend of lowering threshold for use of nukes, warns diplomat

How China Got Sri Lanka to Cough Up a Port

1. 3 planes are flying potatoes into Japan to help tackle the country's shortage of fries, which has caused McDonald's to ration servings

   Elon Musk reveals who bitcoin's mysterious creator Satoshi Nakamoto might be

   China's small Beijing-3 satellite can take high resolution images of US cities within seconds, a speed its American counterparts can't match, scientists say

   Harry Reid, former Senate majority leader, dead at 82
2. How I escaped a Chinese internment camp

Rapid COVID tests are worse at detecting Omicron, FDA says, citing new lab data