Morning Edition

Joe Rogan did not apologize to anyone or to Spotify. The video went through a few different turns. He argued he was not spreading COVID misinformation but that he is having conversations.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Jon Finer, deputy national security adviser, about the Russia-Ukraine crisis. Finer says Russia has massed enough troops at the border to invade Ukraine.

As Russian forces continue to build up along the Ukrainian border, the United Kingdom says it is considering sending more of its own soldiers to the region to deter a potential invasion.

Fifty-two-year-old Bob Barnes of Syracuse, N.Y., quit working for Uber and made a plan to bike to all 50 state capitals in a year. He calls it the "Great American Triple Switchback."

A billboard in Seattle reads: Live where you can actually save for a rainy day. A spokesperson told cleveland.com that people want to flee the coasts, and Ohio wants to be the low-cost replacement.

Kurdish forces recently regained control of a Syrian prison that ISIS had been holding. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Sarah El Deeb, an Associated Press reporter, about current ISIS strongholds.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to David Rennie, the Beijing Bureau chief for The Economist, about the latest escalation in tensions between Taiwan and China.

Is it ever justifiable to engage in violent protest against the government? Nearly a quarter of Americans responded "Yes" to that question in a survey conducted by The COVID States Project.

With Ukraine on the brink of war, a hacktivist group in nearby Belarus is getting attention for claims that it broke into the state-owned Belarussian Railways to try to stop Russian troops.

The U.S. Holocaust Museum has acquired rare photos of a French internment camp where 18,000 Jews were imprisoned before being sent to Auschwitz. (Story originally aired on Jan. 27, 2021 on ATC.)

The team at Morning Edition welcomes Leila Fadel to the host chair. She's been a correspondent at NPR for a decade.

As COVID-19 cases drop, the U.S. hospitalization rate is still high — as is the death rate. Still, many infectious disease experts are cautiously optimistic for the upcoming months.