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Sales climbed for the third consecutive month as prices continued to increase across the country.

Household budgets are squeezed as wage increases are not keeping pace with rising prices.

Russia is pouring troops and equipment into eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian officials thwarted a Russian cyberattack on Ukraine’s power grid. Gas prices are forcing President Biden into an unlikely embrace of fossil fuels.

The police identified a 62-year-old man as a “person of interest” after the mass shooting on a subway train in Brooklyn. At least 23 people were injured.

The number is most likely an undercount, with many cases going undetected or unreported, and the reporting gap may only grow wider as some countries scale back official testing. Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain is fined for breaking lockdown rules.

Britain and Australia said they were investigating reports that Russia had already used them. Ukraine’s military is preparing for a major assault in the east.

The police were seeking a man in a worker’s vest and gas mask after emergency workers responded to a chaotic, bloody scene on a Sunset Park subway platform during the morning rush.

A lockdown in the city of 25 million people “severely impacts travel and access to public services,” the State Department said. As U.S. cases tick up, the new White House Covid czar says it is not a moment to be “excessively concerned.”

The government seeks to ease financial pressure as foreign reserves plummet and prices for essential goods soar.

Russia was unable to use dollars held in American banks to make a payment of about $650 million on its debt. It used rubles instead.