The Post It Note 3/18/22

NEW: Biden and China's Xi Jinping spoke for nearly two hours today in a video call.

Xi told Biden that "conflict and confrontation are not in anyone’s interest," and that the Russia-Ukraine crisis was "not something we want to see." https://t.co/BGdjhbidSL

— Axios (@axios) March 18, 2022

68-year-old American James Hill was killed in Ukraine, while caring for his wife, Irina, who has MS.

His sister says he was a “peacemaker,” who believed “everybody the world should love each other.” https://t.co/XykuCfY0OR pic.twitter.com/3fuHPHOhR7

— CBS Mornings (@CBSMornings) March 18, 2022

JUST IN: Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says that any foreign supplies to Ukraine containing military equipment will be considered "legitimate targets" for Russian strikes. https://t.co/nDdLJHXXdY pic.twitter.com/cMwmSWPf7T

— ABC News (@ABC) March 18, 2022

U.S. officials say Russian authorities won't let them see WNBA star Brittney Griner https://t.co/5HXxs4Md1B

— Axios (@axios) March 18, 2022

CNN's Ed Lavandera reports from Poland where refugees fleeing Russia's invasion of Ukraine are arriving https://t.co/fSeIYUaYKk pic.twitter.com/FCye1jovwa

— CNN (@CNN) March 18, 2022

Former President Donald Trump withheld aid from the same nation that Republicans are accusing Joe Biden of slow-walking aid to. They don't see the parallels https://t.co/zpwpxiX3pQ

— POLITICO (@politico) March 18, 2022

Over the next few weeks, the U.S. should expect an increase in cases from the BA.2 variant, Dr. Anthony Fauci tells @ABC News, but it may not lead to as severe a surge in hospitalizations or deaths. https://t.co/uK8GcqIFHT

— ABC News (@ABC) March 18, 2022

Millions of COVID treatments are sitting on shelves unused, HHS data shared with NPR shows — even as more than 2,000 Americans are being hospitalized each day, some of which could have been avoided with early treatment.https://t.co/f4Kgyj6SxW

— NPR (@NPR) March 18, 2022

State investigators in North Carolina are looking into the voter registration of Mark Meadows, the former Republican congressman and White House chief of staff who pushed baseless claims of voter fraud to try to overturn the 2020 election results. https://t.co/c35CrfEOXX

— CNN (@CNN) March 18, 2022

A former police officer from Virginia pleaded guilty to a felony, admitting that he and another former cop stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 attempting to block the certification of Biden's presidential victory. https://t.co/01k8eV7BEP

— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 18, 2022

The House has voted to outlaw discrimination based on hairstyles like Afros and cornrows associated with race. A bill that passed 235-to-189 makes it explicit that such discrimination is a violation of federal civil rights law. https://t.co/AXAKOoCDKy

— The Associated Press (@AP) March 18, 2022