Ukraine fully regained its territory in the Kharkiv region of the country over the weekend. The victory comes following an offensive to regain control over Ukrainian territory in the north and south of the country. And Sweden’s neck-and-neck election results have put the country’s Social Democratic Party’s decadelong control of the government in jeopardy. A far-right, anti-immigration party with neo-Nazi roots is set to be the second-largest in the Scandinavian country known for its progressive politics and welfare state. Also, with US schools suffering from a critical shortage of bilingual teachers, Connecticut had a novel idea — recruit young people from Puerto Rico who are still in college. The program offers many benefits but it also contributes to the island’s brain drain. Plus, international music collaborators Superorganism embrace the new abnormal.