In the day's other news, Evan Gerskovic will stand trial in the Russian city of Yikaterinburg, where he was arrested more than a year ago.

For the first time, Russian prosecutors specified the allegations against the Wall Street Journal reporter,

accusing him of spying on a military factory for the CIA with, quote, painstaking conspiratorial

methods.

Gerschkovich, his employer, and the US government have denied any wrongdoing.

It's not clear when the trial will begin.

The Justice Department has found a pattern of civil rights abuse at the Phoenix Police

Department. This includes discrimination against black, Hispanic, and Native

American people and the use of excessive force. And it's a hundred and twenty six report, the department found that officers use, quote,

dangerous tactics that lead to force that is unnecessary and unreasonable.

The findings come after a nearly three-year investigation into complaints of brutality by city law enforcement.

The head of the Federal Aviation Administration said today that his agency was, quote,

two hands-off with Boeing leading up to a

mid-flight incident in January. Administrator Michael Whitaker was referring to the

door plug blowout aboard an Alaska Airlines flight. Testifying to a Senate committee today,

Whitaker admitted that the FAA was too focused on paperwork audits and not on actual

inspections. We have changed that approach over the last several months and those changes are permanent.

We have now moved to a more active comprehensive oversight model, the audit plus inspection

approach, which allows the FAA to have much better

insight into Boeing's operations. Also on Capitol Hill today lawmakers in the

House grilled Microsoft President Brad Smith on his company's plan to improve its security.

That comes after China-linked hackers stole 60,000 State Department emails by breaking into Microsoft Systems last summer.

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