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The wider latitude conferred by a state’s public health emergency was critical to states’ responses to earlier waves of coronavirus cases.

Dan Cox, the new Republican nominee for governor, won by playing up his right-wing credentials — which Democrats eagerly emphasized in television advertising.

President Biden, who is fully vaccinated and twice boosted, was “experiencing very mild symptoms,” according to the White House. The virus is surging across much of the country because of new, immune-evasive variants. White House officials are now holding a news conference, which you can watch live below.

Lawyers for the man, who was arrested in 2019, said he had simply gained access to user accounts while doing his job for the company.

The European Central Bank raised its key interest rate by half a percentage point, a bigger-than-expected move. Christine Lagarde, the bank’s president, also introduced a new measure aimed at countries’ diverging borrowing costs, an increasingly worrying problem for the eurozone.

The anxiety over whether Moscow would restart gas shipments through a key pipeline was reminder of Europe’s reliance on Russian energy. On the battlefield, Ukraine said it had struck dozens of targets across the south of the country as Washington announced additional military assistance.

Warning of possible further disruptions to Russian fuel exports, including “a complete stop of Russian gas deliveries,” the European Commission is asking E.U. member states to adopt a strict energy consumption plan. The plan would need the backing of national governments to move forward.

Health officials are trying to make far-reaching policy decisions, including on booster shots, based on little biological certainty of which viral variants will be dominant.

The world’s largest maker of electric cars struggled with production problems in China.

A shutdown to perform maintenance on the pipeline, the main artery between Russia and Germany, is expected to end later this week amid heightened tensions.