On the latest episode of Hot off the Wire:
Facebook parent Meta is laying off 11,000 employees, 13% of its workforce, as it contends with faltering revenue and broader tech industry woes.
American basketball star Brittney Griner's lawyers say she has been sent to a penal colony in Russia to serve her sentence for drug possession.
A surge in COVID-19 cases has spurred lockdowns in the southern Chinese manufacturing hub of Guangzhou.
—The Associated Press