Bill Handel, alongside Wayne Resnick and Jennifer Jones Lee, provides updates on pertinent news topics for today's edition of Handel on the News, Early Edition. Some topics include: A handful of airlines are making masks optional after a federal judge struck down the national mandate, LA County has ended quarantines for most asymptomatic people exposed to COVID, and Russian forces are attacking along the broad East front in a 'New Phase' of War, says Ukraine.