May 23, 2022: Biden willing to use force over Taiwan, Ukraine, Congressional map, Monkeypox, COVID

May 23, 2022: Biden willing to use force to defend Taiwan, Ukraine, Congressional map, Monkeypox, COVID

1. U.S. President Joe Biden said he would be willing to use force to defend Taiwan, capping a series of critical comments about China while in Asia that an aide said represented no change in U.S. policy toward the self-ruled island.

2. Kyiv ackowledged its worst military losses from a single attack of the Ukraine war, saying 87 people had been killed last week when Russian forces struck a barracks housing troops at a training base in the north.

3. A New York judge approved a new congressional map that pits two veteran Democratic incumbents against one another and boosts Republican odds of capturing more seats in November's midterm elections, further endangering Democrats' fragile U.S. House majority.

4. Health authorities said they may have found a third case of the monkeypox virus in the United States and are running tests on a patient in South Florida to confirm if the person has contracted the disease, which is staging a rare outbreak outside of Africa.

5. The Chinese capital extended its work-from-home requirement for many of its 22 million residents to stem a COVID-19 outbreak, while Shanghai deployed more testing and curbs to hold on to its hard-won "zero COVID" status after two months of lockdown.

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