| Months after the U.S. cut China’s access to the Western tools and skilled workers it needed to build advanced semiconductors, China has accelerated its plans for an independent chip sector.Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury, told Britain’s Parliament that the government’s plan to deal with migrants who cross the English Channel was “morally unacceptable.” |
| Pakistan’s Supreme Court declared that the arrest of Imran Khan, the former prime minister, was unlawful and ordered his release from custody.The Bank of England raised interest rates to the highest level in Britain in 15 years, part of an effort to tame stubborn inflation. |
| From the U.S. |
| Donald Trump revived lies about the 2020 election and praised Jan. 6, 2021, rioters at an unruly CNN town hall. Here’s a fact check.A judge in Virginia struck down federal laws blocking handgun sales to buyers over 18 and under 21. Second Amendment rights do not “vest at age 21,” he said.A 24-year-old Marine veteran who choked and killed a homeless man on the subway will face a charge of manslaughter.The Biden administration proposed regulations to limit greenhouse pollution from existing power plants.The Treasury secretary said that invoking the 14th Amendment to solve the debt ceiling crisis was “legally questionable.” |
| The Week in Culture |
 Karsten Moran for The New York Times |
| Beloved Art Deco murals that once decorated the Empire State Building will return to public view today in Manhattan.Just over a week into the television and movie writers’ strike, Netflix is feeling the heat.Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan are in talks for a sequel to “Freaky Friday.”Paramount announced that it was shuttering MTV News.Heather Armstrong, who was hailed as the “queen of the mommy bloggers,” died this week at 47. She ushered in a golden age of women making themselves heard on the internet. |
| A Morning Read |
 Andrea DiCenzo for The New York Times |
| More than a year into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Western sanctions have damaged Russia’s economy but not crippled it. And though most of the West’s leading electronics, automobile and luxury brands announced last year that they were pulling out of Russia, their products are still widely available to Russia’s elites, via inventive, border-crossing workarounds. |
| “The wealthy people always stay wealthy,” one worker at a luxury car showroom in Dubai said. The war, she added, “did not affect them.” |
| SPORTS NEWS FROM THE ATHLETIC |
| The 20-year-old soccer player compared to Messi: Florian Wirtz, Bayer Leverkusen’s supremely talented No. 10, is back from an injury and is making up for lost time. |
| J.J. Watt on the advice he got from Ryan Reynolds and why he’s investing in soccer: The former N.F.L. star talks about his plan for the English club Burnley and why he thinks retirement is exhausting. |
| ARTS AND IDEAS |
 Phil Noble/Reuters |
| A pop celebration |
| This weekend, millions of viewers in Europe and beyond will be glued to the Eurovision Song Contest, a glitzy, campy celebration of pop music. Acts from three dozen countries will perform original songs, with viewers voting for their favorites. |
| Known now as a sprawling television extravaganza, Eurovision began in 1956 as a way of uniting Europe after World War II. As it has grown — and expanded beyond Europe, with entries from Israel and Australia — the contest has often reflected wider political and social issues. |
| Last year, the Ukrainian act Kalush Orchestra won with an upbeat track that mixed rap and traditional folk music. Ukraine’s act this year, the pop duo Tvorchi, will perform a song inspired by the soldiers who fought to defend the now-ruined city of Mariupol. They spoke with The Times about rehearsing for the contest amid air-raid sirens. |
