U.S. employers delivered 431,000 jobs in March, according to the Labor Department in April. The unemployment rate decreased to 3.6%, down from 3.8% a month in advance.

New Jersey Governor, Phil Murphy, said this month that as of March 7, 2022, the mask mandate in schools with expire. School districts will decide individually to continue the mandate or make masks optional. Districts cannot ban masks.

On November 21, a Christmas parade in Wisconsin turned deadly. Authorities in Wisconsin have identified the motive force of a red SUV who they say deliberately drove his SUV via barricades and into a crowd celebrating the Waukesha Christmas parade. Darrell E. Brooks Jr., 39, is believed to have acted alone. Brooks faces five counts of first-diploma intentional murder.

More than 200 female judges remain in Afghanistan, many of them under threat and in hiding, according to the International Association of Women Judges. Taliban officials have recovered their personal information from court records, several former judges said, and some have had their bank accounts frozen.