February 15, 2022: Russia, Ukraine, Trudeau emergency powers, Trump accountant, Biden, Arbery trial

February 15, 2022: Russia, Ukraine, Canada emergency powers, Trump’s account firm, Biden ‘Buy Clean,’ Ahmaud Arbery trial

1. Russia said some of its military units were returning to their bases after exercises near Ukraine, following days of U.S. and British warnings that Moscow might invade its neighbour at any time.

2. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau activated rarely used emergency powers in an effort to end protests that have shut some U.S. border crossings and paralyzed parts of the capital.

3. The accounting firm that handled Donald Trump's company's financial statements dropped it as a client and said it could no longer stand behind a decade of statements, a court filing showed.

4. The White House will announce a new task force to promote use of construction materials with lower lifecycle emissions as it works to speed U.S. government purchases of greener products.

5. A federal prosecutor in Georgia said that three white men on trial for hate crimes in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, had a long history of using racial epithets and undoubtedly killed him because of his race.

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