News Wrap: Russia launches new wave of aerial attacks across Ukraine

Amna Nawaz:

In the day's other headlines: The FBI searched former Vice President Mike Pence is home in Carmel, Indiana, today for more classified material.

A Pence adviser said they found a single document marked classified. The residence was blocked off during the five-hour search. Pence lawyers agreed to it after finding a small amount of classified materials last month.

Migrant crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border have dropped sharply. The Customs and Border Protection reports encounters in January fell 40 percent from December. The total, a little over 156,000, was the lowest in nearly two years. The agency says it's due to a new policy that limits migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.

Russia launched a new wave of aerial attacks across Ukraine today targeting cities and power facilities with missiles, bombers and drones. Kyiv said it shot down most of the missiles. But, in the southeast, the barrage struck residential areas, smashing houses to the ground and throwing a car onto a roof. Survivors angrily condemned Russia's actions.

Yevhen, Ukrainian Resident (through translator):

They are not humans. I don't know what the Russians are thinking about when they are doing this, when they press the buttons and shell civilians. They are very well aware that they are firing at civilians. They know it.

Amna Nawaz:

In another development, the White House confirmed that President Biden will travel to Poland next week ahead of the war's first anniversary.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy insisted today that Russian athletes be barred from next year's Summer Olympics in Paris. He told a virtual summit of sports officials that Russians have no place at the Olympics while they're waging war on Ukraine. The International Olympic Committee has said it wants to let Russians compete under a neutral flag.

In East Jerusalem, a Palestinian man drove a car into a crowded bus stop today, killing two people and injuring five before he was shot and killed by police. Medics say one of the dead was a 6-year-old boy. Emergency crews rushed to the scene to ferry away the wounded. This came amid a surge of violence in the Israeli-annexed eastern part of the city and the occupied West Bank.

President Biden welcomed Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to the White House today. It was their first meeting as presidents. They said they're united on the need to safeguard democracy and fight climate change. The visit came just after — just a month after right-wing rioters in Brazil tried to oust Lula.

Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman has been released from a Washington hospital. He was admitted Wednesday night after feeling lightheaded. The freshman Democrat suffered a serious stroke last year during his campaign, but the hospital says tests showed no signs of a second stroke.

And, on Wall Street, stocks searched for direction heading into the weekend. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 169 points to close at 33869. The Nasdaq fell 71 points and the S&P 500 gained nine.

Still to come on the "NewsHour": two newspapers collaborate to finish the work of an investigative reporter who was murdered; we examine the efforts to crack down on sex trafficking ahead of the Super Bowl; David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart weigh in on the week's political headlines; plus much more.