President Biden announced a massive release of the US’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve as the administration tries to combat soaring prices at the pump. One month after Western nations smacked Russia with unprecedented sanctions that put pressure on the country’s financial system and reduced the ruble’s value to an [all-time low](https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/russian-rouble-slips-past-100-vs-dollar-banks-hunt-fx-2022-03-02/#:~:text=NEW YORK%2C March 2 (Reuters,over the invasion of Ukraine.)), the currency has almost fully recovered. Just in time for International Fact-Checking Day on April 2 (the day you circle on your calendar every year...), Google is introducing a feature) that tags news stories with a label that measures the reliability of sources.
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