Thousands detained in Russia protests.

Tens of thousands of protesters rallied in Russia for the second consecutive week, defying the Kremlin in support of the jailed opposition leader Aleksei A. Navaly.

Republican moderates said they could go along with many of the president's proposals if some, like unemployment aid and direct payments, were scaled back.

The sense of a dysfunctional, if not entirely broken, democratic system in the United States has foreign rivals crowing — and suggesting that it has no business lecturing other nations.

The bizarre fossil is one of very few records of soft tissue in a creature better known as a whorled shell.

Thousands of people took to the streets to show support for the jailed opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny for a second weekend, despite mass arrests and an imposing show of force by the police.

The closure lasted for about an hour before the entrance reopened, while vaccinations continued inside the stadium.

A spokesman for the agency said that the order relied heavily on voluntary action to enforce the mandate.