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FILE - People walk by an Amazon Books store at the Westfield Garden State Plaza shopping mall in Paramus, N.J., Monday, Jan. 10, 2022. Amazon confirmed on Wednesday, March 2, 2022, that it’s closing all of its physical bookstores as well as its 4-star shops and pop up locations as the online behemoth reworks its physical footprint. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

Amazon shuttering its physical bookstores and 4-star shops

The move comes as Amazon.com's overall revenue growth is slowing, and it's looking for new ways to reignite sales.

FILE - Finland's Minister for Foreign Affairs Pekka Haavisto, left and his Swedish counterpart Ann Linde take part in a joint press conference with Sweden's Defence Minister Peter Hultqvist, and his Finnish counterpart Antti Kaikkonen, in Stockholm, Sweden, Feb. 2, 2022, after talks on European security. Throughout the Cold War and in the decades since it ended, nothing could persuade Finns and Swedes that they would be better off joining NATO, until now. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has profoundly changed Europe’s security outlook, including for Nordic neutrals Finland and Sweden, where support for joining NATO has surged to record levels. (Anders Wiklund, TT News Agency via AP, File)

Neutral Finns and Swedes reconsider idea of NATO membership

A change in public opinion in steadfastly neutral Finland and Sweden has taken place since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

A picture taken on March 3, 2022 in a shipyard of La Ciotat, near Marseille, southern France, shows a yacht, Amore Vero, owned by a company linked to Igor Sechin, chief executive of Russian energy giant Rosneft. - The French government on March 3 said it had seized in La Ciotat a superyacht owned by a company linked to Igor Sechin, chief executive of Russian energy giant Rosneft and close confidant of the Russian President, as part of the implementation of European Union sanctions against Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by NICOLAS TUCAT / AFP) (Photo by NICOLAS TUCAT/AFP via Getty Images)

France seizes its first yacht as the West pledges to crack down on Russian oligarchs

France says it seized a yacht belonging to Igor Sechin, an oil executive and close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, after the U.S. and European Union sanctioned a slew of Russian oligarchs.

Russia's credit rating is cut to junk, and the dollar hits a new high vs. the ruble

Moody's cites multiple factors for the downgrade, from sanctions by the U.S., European Union and their allies to "significant concerns" that Russia might not be willing to pay its debts.

Distribution of white supremacist propaganda is increasingly coordinated, ADL says

Last year's numbers were the second highest since the Anti-Defamation League began tracking such incidents in 2017 and represented increasing levels of coordination and mobilization, the ADL says.

FILE - Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds delivers her Condition of the State address before a joint session of the Iowa Legislature, on Jan. 11, 2022, at the Statehouse in Des Moines, Iowa. Iowa legislators on Wednesday, March 2, 2022, gave final approval to a bill that would prohibit transgender females from participating in girls high school sports and women's college athletics, sending a divisive bill likely to draw legal challenges to the governor. Reynolds last year lobbied lawmakers to pass a similar measure but it failed to advance. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Transgender girls and women now barred from female sports in Iowa

The ban takes effect immediately. The ban applies to K-12 schools and community colleges as well as colleges and universities that are part of the NCAA or NAIA.

Soviet conductor Semyon Bychkov conducts Vienna Philharmonic at Golden hall in Musikverein concert haus in Vienna on January 13, 2017. The now 64-year-old maestro has put together a Tchaikovsky festival at the New York Philharmonic, an in-depth exploration through performances from january 24 until February 11, 2017. / AFP / JOE KLAMAR (Photo credit should read JOE KLAMAR/AFP via Getty Images)

As performing artists denounce or stay allied with Putin, history offers some lessons

While Russian artists and institutions grapple with how they are viewed internationally, American cultural organizations make what amounts to foreign policy decisions.

Read these 6 books about Ukraine

The Russian invasion has sparked an interest in books about Ukraine. There are many out there. If you're not sure where to get started, we've got you covered.

Stanford women's soccer player Katie Meyer has died at 22

The goalkeeper memorably led the Cardinal to victory in the 2019 NCAA College Cup championship game.

People fleeing from Ukraine arrive at the train station in Przemysl, Poland on March 3, 2022. Thousends of refugees cross the Ukrainian-Polish border after the Russian invasion. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Race, culture and politics underpin how — or if — refugees are welcomed in Europe

The embrace of those fleeing the Russian invasion is far different from the cold shoulder refugees from the Middle East and Africa have received. Race, culture and politics are all part of the story.

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