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Thursday, December 2, 2021

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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People attending a vigil embrace Tuesday at LakePoint Community Church in Oxford, Michigan. Authorities say a 15-year-old sophomore opened fire at Oxford High School, killing several students and wounding multiple other people, including a teacher.

Michigan teen charged in Oxford High School shooting

A 15-year-old boy was charged Wednesday with murder, terrorism and other crimes for a shooting that killed four fellow students and injured others at a Michigan high school.
Stephen Parlato of Boulder, Colorado, holds a sign that reads “Hands Off Roe!!!” Tuesday outside of the Supreme Court in Washington.

Justices signal they'll OK new abortion limits, may toss Roe

The Supreme Court's conservative majority on Wednesday signaled it would uphold Mississippi's 15-week ban on abortion and may go much further to overturn the nationwide right to abortion that has existed for nearly 50 years.
The Christmas tree of the closed Christmas market is reflected in a puddle Monday in Innsbruck, Austria. As countries shut their doors to foreign tourists or reimpose restrictions because of the new omicron variant of the coronavirus, tourism that was just finding it’s footing again could face another major pandemic slowdown amid the uncertainty about the new strain.

Omicron unravels travel industry's plans for a comeback

Tourism businesses that were just finding their footing after nearly two years of devastation wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic are being rattled again as countries throw up new barriers to travel in an effort to contain the omicron variant.
An international arrivals lobby is deserted Monday at Narita International Airport in Narita, east of Tokyo, Japan. Japan’s NHK national television said the country’s transport ministry on Wednesday requested international airlines to stop taking new reservations for all flights arriving in Japan until the end of December.

U.S. reports 1st case of omicron variant in returning traveler

The U.S. recorded its first confirmed case of the omicron variant Wednesday -- a person in California who had been to South Africa -- as scientists around the world raced to establish whether the new, mutant version of the coronavirus is more dangerous than previous ones.
Posters stand Tuesday on the south lawn at the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis where jury selection begins for former suburban Minneapolis police officer Kim Potter, who says she meant to grab her Taser instead of her handgun when she shot and killed motorist Daunte Wright.
8th juror seated for Potter trial in Daunte Wright's death
Prosecutors and attorneys for the suburban Minneapolis police officer charged in Daunte Wright's shooting death seated four more jurors for her trial Wednesday, including a woman who said she owns both a gun and a stun gun.
Actor Jussie Smollett arrives Tuesday at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse for day two of his trial in Chicago. Smollett is accused of lying to police when he reported he was the victim of a racist, anti-gay attack in downtown Chicago nearly three years ago.
Police: Jussie Smollett 'upset' camera didn't record attack
Jussie Smollett, who is accused of lying to police when he reported he was the victim of racist and homophobic attack in downtown Chicago, appeared troubled when he was told that a surveillance camera did not record the alleged assault, a police detective testified Wednesday.
Acting Assistant U.S. Attorney General Jeffrey Clark speaks as he stands next to Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen during a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington last year. The House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol insurrection will vote on pursuing contempt charges against Clark Wednesday as the committee aggressively seeks to gain answers about the violent attack by former President Donald Trump’s supporters.
Jan. 6 panel to vote on contempt against former DOJ official
The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection will vote on pursuing contempt charges against a former Justice Department official Wednesday as the committee aggressively seeks to gain answers about the violent attack by former President Donald Trump's supporters.
CNN said Tuesday it was suspending Chris Cuomo indefinitely after details emerged about how he helped his brother, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, as he faced charges of sexual harassment.
Loyalty to family, instead of CNN, puts Chris Cuomo at risk
There's family, and your job as a journalist. Chris Cuomo's willingness to put the latter at risk in service to his brother has led to his suspension by CNN.
A worker disinfects chairs Tuesday at a new vaccination center in Lisbon. A pandemic-weary world faces weeks of confusing uncertainty as countries restrict travel and take other steps to halt the newest potentially risky coronavirus mutant before anyone knows just how dangerous omicron really is.
Mysteries of omicron variant could take weeks to untangle
A pandemic-weary world faces weeks of confusing uncertainty as countries restrict travel and take other steps to halt the newest potentially risky coronavirus mutant before anyone knows just how dangerous omicron really is.
Afghan girls listen their teacher at Tajrobawai Girls High School, in Herat, Afghanistan, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021. While most high school girls in Afghanistan are forbidden to attend class by the country's Taliban rulers, one major exception are those in the western province of Herat. For weeks, girls there have been attending high school classes, thanks to a unique effort by teachers and parents to persuade local Taliban administrators to allow schools to reopen. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
Unique effort reopens girls' schools in an Afghan province
While most high school girls in Afghanistan are forbidden to attend class by the Taliban rulers, one major exception is in the western province of Herat
FILE - This aerial photo shows the Bonanza Creek Ranch in Santa Fe, N.M., on Saturday, Oct. 23, 2021. The person in charge of weapons on the movie set at the ranch where actor Alec Baldwin fatally shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins said Wednesday night, Nov. 3 that she suspects someone put in a live bullet in the prop gun that Baldwin shot. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
Investigators track ammunition in fatal film set shooting
Authorities are pursuing new leads on possible sources of live ammunition involved in actor Alec Baldwin's fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the New Mexico set of a western movie
FILE - Actor Alec Baldwin attends the 2019 PEN America Literary Gala at the American Museum of Natural History on Tuesday, May 21, 2019, in New York. A new lawsuit alleges that Baldwin recklessly fired a gun when it wasn't called for in the script when he shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the New Mexico set of the film 'Rust.' The lawsuit filed Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021, from script supervisor Mamie Mitchell, is the second to stem from the shooting. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
ABC's Stephanopoulos to interview Baldwin about set shooting
Alec Baldwin will talk about the deadly shooting in October on the set of the movie 'Rust' in an interview with George Stephanopoulos of ABC News
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
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