News stories I’ve been reading:

• Voyager 1 is Back Online Again, but NASA’s Iconic Probe is Losing Something it Crucially Needs to Remain Operational — NASA’s iconic Voyager 1 probe is back online after the spacecraft experienced another pause in communication last month. — The Debrief
• A look at the context behind South Korea’s shocking martial law edict — It may seem that the wild scenes in Seoul, with hundreds of armed troops and frantic lawmakers storming South Korea’s parliament building after the president suddenly declared martial law, came out of nowhere. — The AP
• South Korean Lawmakers Move To Impeach President Over Short-Lived Martial Law Order — “I think the implications are that Yoon, perhaps, is a dead man walking." — The Daily Wire
• French Government Collapses After National Assembly Ousts Prime Minister in No Confidence Vote — The French government collapsed Wednesday after its lower house of parliament voted to oust Prime Minister Michel Barnier, the Wall Street Journal reported. — The Washington Free Beacon
• Mexico nabs over a ton of fentanyl in largest ever seizure — Mexican security forces said on Wednesday they had made the largest fentanyl seizure in the country’s history, impounding 1,100 kilograms of the synthetic opioid in the state of Sinaloa. — Reuters
• In diesem Hamburger Stadtteil leben fast nur noch Migranten — Neue Daten zur Demographie in Hamburg: Fast jeder Zweite hat einen Migrationshintergrund, jeder Fünfte ist Ausländer. Eine Zahl schockiert besonders. Die AfD sieht eine vermeintliche Verschwörungstheorie bestätigt. — Junge Freiheit
• Polizeigewalt: Beamter wirft Mann von Brücke — In Brasilien sorgen mehrere Fälle von Polizeigewalt für Empörung. So ist auf Aufnahmen lokaler Fernsehsender zu sehen, wie ein Polizist in der Millionenmetropole São Paulo einen Mann von einer Brücke in einen Fluss wirft. — Kronen Zeitung
• Residents of Barrhead vote in favour of bylaw banning rainbow flags, crosswalks — Residents of a northern Alberta town have voted in favour of a bylaw banning Pride flags and rainbow crosswalks from municipal property. — The Albertan
• Canada can become 51st state if it can’t handle tariffs, Trump tells Trudeau — Donald Trump reportedly wants to accomplish what the War of 1812 did not. — The Washington Times
• Congressional probe determines COVID-19 ‘most likely’ leaked from Chinese lab — The coronavirus that killed millions of people “most likely” leaked from a Chinese lab where researchers were intentionally manipulating the virus, a two-year congressional investigation concluded Monday. — The Washington Times
• House COVID-19 panel releases final report: 3 key takeaways — The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released its final report Monday, laying out numerous conclusions from its review of the federal pandemic response, including what the Republican-controlled panel believes to be the likely origins of the virus. — The Hill
• House Oversight Report Says Biden DOJ Opened Criminal Investigation Into Covid-19’s Origins — A congressional oversight subcommittee released the results of a two-year probe into the Covid-19 pandemic Monday, stating that the Department of Justice opened a criminal investigation related to the pandemic’s origins. — The Daily Caller
• Covid-19: Republican-led committee backs Chinese lab leak theory after two-year probe — The 520-page report from the Republican-controlled American House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic released on Monday looked at the federal and state-level response, as well as the pandemic’s origins and vaccination efforts. — Le Monde
• DOJ secretly investigated nonprofit at center of Wuhan COVID lab leak questions, bombshell House report reveals — The Department of Justice secretly launched a grand jury investigation into a US nonprofit that steered American taxpayer funding to the Chinese lab suspected of leaking the COVID-19 virus and causing the global pandemic, according to a bombshell report released by a House committee on Monday. — The New York Post
• House Covid-19 panel releases final report criticizing public health response to the pandemic — A Republican-led House committee investigating broad aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic and its effects in the US released a final report Monday summarizing its two-year effort, saying it hoped the work would “serve as a road map for Congress, the Executive Branch, and the private sector to prepare for and respond to future pandemics.” — CNN
• GOP-Run COVID Panel Releases Conclusions — Lockdowns were harmful, report says, attributing virus origin to lab — Newser
• France, state of delusion — Ridiculous borrowing, impossible promises and an unwillingness to face reality have led to budget deadlock and talk of a Greek-style financial crisis — The New European
• Russia races ahead of NATO in weapons production for Ukraine war: SIPRI — Despite a defence budget 10 times Russia’s, new report lays bare how NATO is unable to turn spending power into firepower in a crisis. — Al Jazeera
• Bernie Sanders: ‘Elon Musk Is Right’ on Defense Spending — _Pentagon budget is ‘full of waste and fraud,’ senator says _ — Newser
• Zelensky urges Scholz to ramp up ‘fundamental’ support against Russia — _Despite Germany pledging a €650 million aid package on Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged its second-largest backer not to reduce its backing of Ukraine’s efforts to defeat Russia, saying Ukraine’s allies could only “ensure peace through strength” by sending more weapons, financing, and diplomatic support. _ — France 24
• Russian Attack Submarine Intercepted in South China Sea — The Philippines said that the “intrusion” into its economic waters in the South China Sea by a Russian submarine, which is armed with missiles, was “very worrisome." — Newsweek