Three million Brazilians who live in the Amazon region now have internet access thanks to an underwater fiber optic cable that's part of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's plan to expand connectivity in remote areas.
Details: Lula said on Monday that the fiber optic cables are part of a proposal to "care for the jungle, water and fauna, but also for the people" who call the rainforest home, Marina writes.
A Library of Congress project that collects and preserves war veterans' first-hand accounts wants to hear more stories from Latinos.
Driving the news: The 70th anniversary of the end of the Korean War, in which 150,000 Hispanics served, was last week, and the Veterans History Project is hoping that commemoration will spur more veterans to share their stories. Most veterans from that war are in their 80s and 90s now.
A Los Angeles artist is transforming Barbie dolls with sharpie eyebrows, intricate tattoos and hoop earrings amid conversations around limited concepts of beauty reignited by Barbie mania.
Why it matters: Research has shown that dolls have a direct correlation with how young girls of color see themselves and their standards of beauty.
CNN anchor and chief national security correspondent Jim Sciutto will be out in March with a new book on the "definitive break between the post–Cold War era and an entirely new and uncertain one."
Zoom in: Sciutto tells Axios he's been working on "The Return of Great Powers" since anchoring and reporting from Lviv on the first day of the war in Ukraine, in February 2022.
