Fourth Estate

Top news from March 14 to March 18

BY ALLISON ALBERTY, SOCIAL MEDIA AND GRAPHICS EDITOR

Monday, March 14

• Russia asks China for financial aid in the war against Ukraine.
• Tom Brady announced he will return to NFL and Buccaneers.
• American journalist Brent Renaud was killed in Ukraine.

Tuesday, March 15

• Document in Jan. 6 Case shows a plan to storm government buildings.
• Omicron infections prompt lockdown in China.
• Idaho passes an abortion ban following Texas’ abortion law.

Wednesday, March 16

• Senate approves making daylight saving time permanent.
• Zelensky makes an appeal for help to Canada’s Parliament, compares Toronto to Kyiv.
• China’s lockdown due to Omicron is set to further disrupt the global chain of supply.

Thursday, March 17

• Zelensky asks U.S.Congress for more aid.
• Ukrainian forces strike back at Russia as the U.S. pledges $800 million more in military aid.
• Federal Reserve raises interest rates in an effort to decrease inflation.

Friday, March 18

• Survivors in Ukraine emerge from a bombed theater.
• U.S. names Putin a ‘War Criminal’.
• Arnold Schwarzenegger made a video to Russia, telling Putin: ‘Stop this war.’