Peter Whoriskey

• National Security

Fighting continued as two top Biden officials traveled to Kyiv to visit the Ukrainian president. European leaders visited Ukraine weeks ago to witness firsthand evidence of atrocities committed by Russian soldiers but until Sunday, top U.S. officials had not visited the country since the invasion.

• Business

One in four homes sold in the Charlotte metro area last year were bought by investors — the second-highest share of all metros that Redfin analyzed. The trend hits predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest.

• Business

A shareholder advocacy group is renewing a bid to remove the chairman and another director at the nation’s second-largest oil company for not doing more to curb carbon emissions.

• Business

As the Biden administration seeks to punish oligarchs aligned with Russian President Vladimir Putin, records show that many U.S. charities and cultural institutions have long accepted large donations from them.

• Business

While the SEC has generally steered clear of regulating the $18 trillion field of private funds — basically hedge funds, private equity and venture capital — it is proposing basic investor-disclosure rules for the field.

• Business

Sen. Elizabeth Warren issued letters on Thursday to three of the nation's largest owners of suburban housing, demanding information about their profits, rent hikes and acquisitions. The letters come as a relatively new real estate phenomenon is spreading across suburban U.S. neighborhoods: large companies buying up thousands of single-family homes every month and putting them up for rent

• Business

The owners of the apartment tower where a fire left 17 dead are three investment groups with billions of dollars in affordable housing investments. Some housing advocates say such investors, which take advantage of government subsidies for affordable housing, ought to be held to higher standards.

• Business

The 35 relics from James H. Clark’s private collection include a monumental sandstone sculpture that once adorned an ancient Khmer capital city and bronze sculptures from near Angkor Wat. Clark obtained the relics more than a decade ago from indicted art dealer Douglas Latchford.

• Pandora Papers | A global investigation

The Pandora Papers reveal a plan to exploit the foreclosure crisis and an unprecedented flow of global finance into American suburbs. Wealthy investors profited as Progress Residential bought homes at depressed prices and rented them to middle-class families who could no longer afford to buy them.