A Supreme Court ruling in Donald Trump’s immunity case will set important precedent, perhaps narrowing the lens on when former presidents can be tried. The court also may be removing one key obstacle to a Trump comeback.

• Congress scrambles: The House passes a short-term spending measure that would keep one set of federal agencies operating through March 8 and another set through March 22. The Senate was also expected to vote on the bill Thursday. The short-term extension is the fourth in recent months. 
• Judge halts Texas law: A federal judge blocks a state law that gave police broad powers to arrest migrants suspected of illegally entering the United States, dealing a victory to the Biden administration in its feud with Republican Gov. Greg Abbott over immigration enforcement. 
• Israel targets aid recipients: Israeli troops fire on Palestinians racing to pull food off an aid convoy in Gaza City, according to witnesses. More than 100 people were killed. Israeli officials say the crowd had approached in a threatening way.
• Maine gun control push: Democrats in the State Legislature unveil sweeping gun violence measures, including a 72-hour waiting period for most gun purchases and $17.5 million in spending for community mental health programs.
• Good night, moon lander: Odysseus, the first private U.S. spacecraft to land on the moon, broke a leg on touchdown before falling over, according to officials at Intuitive Machines, its builder. They said the craft was on the verge of losing power.

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When a transgender teen in Oklahoma died after being bullied, the culture wars ground into motion, with accusations and allegations. But in talking with LGBTQ+ people in Oklahoma, a complicated picture emerges – of steep challenges but also of a sense of home worth fighting for.

Same-day border visits by both presidential front-runners underscore how illegal immigration has become the top issue in the race. In a marked change, President Joe Biden is going on the offensive.

Farmer protests in Europe pose a global question: How can governments make the shift to environmental sustainability politically sustainable? 

In a nation focused on divisions, voices are rising for peace. One of these, civil rights activist and nonviolence advocate Clarence B. Jones, who helped write the famous “I Have a Dream’’ speech, is finding new audiences. 

“Dune: Part Two” arrives almost 2 1/2 years after the first installment. With the possible exception of “Lawrence of Arabia,” film critic Peter Rainer writes, he’s never seen so much sand in one movie.

Last year, the world’s largest offshore wind developer, Ørsted of Denmark, began work with the World Wildlife Fund to prove a point: that restoration of reefs in Denmark’s North Sea can bring back lost populations of oysters and horse mussels – and could be done in harmony with giant wind farms.

The five-year BioReef project, as it is called, aims to show that humanity can “solve both the climate and the biodiversity crisis” without conflict, says Bo Øksnebjerg, secretary-general of WWF Denmark.

Much of Europe can now expect many more attempts to rehabilitate eroded waterways and landscapes, with the added goal of proving that humans can still thrive when they work in harmony with nature. On Tuesday, the European Parliament came together to give final passage to a “nature restoration” law.

The law requires the bloc’s 27 countries to restore at least 20% of the Continent’s land and sea areas by 2030 and 60% by 2040. These levels will help bring the scale and diversity needed for animals and plants to form a sustainable balance.

To be clear, the new law aims to restore former wilderness – from peat lands to oyster beds – not simply to protect the already wild areas. About 26% of land in the European Union is protected.

Political harmony in the European Parliament, located in the French city of Strasbourg, was essential to the law’s passage. Farmers, worried by claims they might lose agricultural land, were given a few concessions but not without some agreement on the benefits of restoration, such as making land more resilient to extreme weather, pest outbreaks, and loss of pollinators.

A report for the EU found that the economic benefits of restoring ecosystems far outweigh the costs. Restoring land and waterways, says Virginijus Sinkevičius, European commissioner for the environment, oceans and fisheries, will help provide Europe with a healthy economy. If the price of oysters starts to drop in Denmark in a few years, he may be right.