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When Attorney General Merrick Garland directed the FBI to help local authorities investigate cases of violence against school leaders, he did not suggest the FBI would spy on parents who speak up about masks.

Facts Matter: FBI was not directed to spy on school parents

The feds weren't directed to spy on parents at school board meetings, a mask study was misrepresented, and an image of Jeff Bezos with William Shatner was altered by someone who sought to show "space is fake," Bob Oswald says in his Facts Matter column.
A Sri Lankan school student receives a COVID-19 vaccine in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Friday, Oct. 15, 2021. Sri Lanka is vaccinating 18- and 19-year-olds against the coronavirus as it expands the shots to students. After beginning with older people, Sri Lanka has now vaccinated 57% of its 22 million population. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Sri Lanka gives booster shots to front-line workers, seniors

Sri Lanka has announced plans to offer booster shots to front-line workers followed by the elderly as the island nation gears up to further ease COVID-19 restrictions
Kid-size doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine appear safe and nearly 91% effective at preventing symptomatic infections in 5- to 11-year-olds, according to study details released Friday as the U.S. considers opening vaccinations to that age group.

Pfizer says COVID-19 vaccine more than 90% effective in kids

Kid-size doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine appear safe and nearly 91% effective at preventing symptomatic infections in 5- to 11-year-olds, according to study details released Friday as the U.S. considers opening vaccinations to that age group.
Millions more Americans just became eligible for COVID-19 boosters but figuring out who’s eligible and when can be confusing — and adding to the challenge is that this time around, people can get a different type of vaccine for that extra dose.

EXPLAINER: Is it time to get a COVID-19 booster? Which one?

Millions more Americans just became eligible for COVID-19 boosters but figuring out who's eligible and when can be confusing -- and adding to the challenge is that this time around, people can get a different type of vaccine for that extra dose.
Lev Parnas leaves Federal court, in New York, Friday, Oct. 22, 2021. A New York jury convicted Parnas, a former associate of Rudy Giuliani on Friday of charges that he made illegal campaign contributions to influence U.S. politicians and advance his business interests. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Giuliani associate convicted of campaign finance crimes
A New York jury has convicted a former associate of Rudy Giuliani of charges that he made illegal campaign contributions to influence U.S. politicians and advance his business interests
Black female pilot a trailblazer for SIU aviation
CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) - Vernecelyn Allen may not consider herself a trailblazer, but trying to find a better term to describe the Southern Illinois University Carbondale aviation graduate is futile. Allen, who completed majors in aviation management and aviation flight in May and August, just earned her flight instructor's certification.
FILE - In this Oct. 7, 2014 photo, Chad Stahelski, co-director of the film, "John Wick," demonstrates proper gun handling during a training session at 87Eleven Action Design in Inglewood, Calif. Guns used in making movies are sometimes real weapons that can fire either bullets or blanks, which are gunpowder charges that produce a flash and a bang but no deadly projectile. (Photo by Casey Curry/Invision/AP, File)
Film crew voiced complaints before fatal on-set shooting
Court records state that Alec Baldwin fatally shot a cinematographer on a New Mexico film set with a gun a crew member had assured the actor didn't carry live ammunition
The city of Chicago isn’t the only agency misspelling “Millennium,” as it did last week when referring to the park where the Chicago Sky’s WNBA title would be celebrated. This sign announcing the, um, Millennium Trail on Fairfield Road near Route 176 has been incorrect for years.
Grammar Moses: Of double letters and double meanings
Jim discusses examples of too many double letters and too few -- including in communications from Charmin. Plus, what's a contronym and ""vexatious"?
Lake County sheriff’s police are investigating an armed robbery that occurred Saturday morning at a gas station in an unincorporated area near Grayslake.
Police investigating armed robbery at gas station near Grayslake
Lake County sheriff's police are investigating an armed robbery that occurred Saturday morning at a gas station in an unincorporated area near Grayslake.
Ryan F. Groh, 34, of Kenosha was charged with charged with obstructing a peace officer and resisting arrest during a traffic stop and DUI investigation, then two additional counts of resisting a correctional officer and one count of aggravated battery to a correctional officer at the Lake County jail.
Wisconsin man charged with interfering in DUI investigation, then attacking officers in jail
When Lake County police pulled over a Kenosha man's sister for a suspected DUI, he interfered with their investigation, resisted arrest, then later attacked officers in jail, police said.
Workers find human remains at suburban Chicago preserve
Authorities are investigating whether human remains found at a suburban Chicago nature preserve could be those of a United Airlines executive who vanished more than a year ago
A frame grab made on Thursday Oct. 14, 2021 from a video posted online by and showing Espen Andersen Braathen, a 37-year-old Danish citizen, who was arrested Wednesday night for killing 5 people in the Norwegian town of Kongsberg. Norwegian authorities say that the the bow-and-arrow rampage by Brathen appeared to be a terrorist act. (Espen Andersen Braathen via AP)
Norway intel agency: Kongsberg-type attack will happen again
Norway's domestic intelligence agency says that such deadly attacks as the one in the small town of Kongsberg earlier this month are highly difficult to anticipate and prevent and are likely to happen again in such an open and democratic society such as Norway
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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Glenbrook North mascot Sparty greets fans as the school’s Homecoming kickoff parade wound through town Sunday, Oct. 17.
Spartan spirit! Glenbrook North student athletes, clubs spread cheer at Homecoming parade
Chicago Sky forward/center and former Naperville Central High School athlete Candace Parker celebrates at the 2021 WNBA Champion Chicago Sky Rally Tuesday October 19, 2021 in Chicago at the Pritzker Pavilion.
Rally for former Naperville Central athlete Candace Parker and the 2021 WNBA champions Chicago Sky
In this Feb. 15, 2001 file photo, Secretary of State Colin Powell looks on as President Bush addresses State Department employees at the State Department in Washington. Powell, former Joint Chiefs chairman and secretary of state, has died from COVID-19 complications. In an announcement on social media Monday, the family said Powell had been fully vaccinated. He was 84.
Colin Powell dies at age 84
The Daily Herald Archive, Assignment # 54,164, Mike Seeling photo: Chicago Bears’ cornerback Virgil Livers participates in a pancake eating contest benefiting the Easter Seal Foundation in Buffalo Grove in March of 1980.
Through the Film Magnifier: Bill Kurtis, Harry Caray, Wheeling bank robbery and more
Jackie Rakers, of St. Charles gets a high-five from Heaven, a dog she fostered and then adopted in 2019 from Starfish Animal Rescue in Batavia. Heaven was announced the 2021 winner of People magazine’s “World’s Cutest Rescue Dog Contest” on Wednesday.
You never know what you might see in The Week in Pictures photo gallery for October 9-15, 2021.
Benet Academy’s Clare Lopatka plays against Ottawa’s Ella Marvel in the second round of the Rolling Meadows girls tennis invitational at Fremd High School in Palatine on Saturday, October 2, 2021.
Owls, pumpkin patches and football games means it's autumn in The Week in Pictures photo gallery for October 2-8, 2021.
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