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In this image from video provided by the New York Office of the Governor, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks during a news briefing, in New York, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021. Minnesota health officials on Thursday reported the state's first confirmed case of the omicron COVID-19 variant, in a man who had attended an anime conference in New York City in late November. (New York Office of the Governor via AP)
Multiple cases of omicron virus variant detected in NYC
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FILE - Former Georgia Insurance Commissioner Jim Beck leaves the Richard B. Russell Federal Courthouse after he was sentenced to more than seven years in prison and ordered to pay $2.6 million in restitution on Tuesday, Oct 12, 2021, in Atlanta. Beck reported to a federal prison at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021 to begin his sentence after he was convicted in July on 37 counts relating to money he stole from an insurer he headed. (Jenni Girtman/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)
$2.5M theft scheme: Georgia ex-official begins prison term
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President Joe Biden speaks about the COVID-19 variant named omicron during a visit to the National Institutes of Health, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021, in Bethesda, Md. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Pushing COVID-19 boosters, Biden says 'we need to be ready'
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Kaillie Humphries of the United States watches the leaderboard after the women's two-women bobsleigh World Cup race in Igls, near Innsbruck, Austria, Sunday, Nov. 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
Beijing bound: Bobsledder Kaillie Humphries now an American
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Hawaii running back Dedrick Parson (31) breaks free from a diving Colorado State defensive back Jack Howell (17) before running the ball into the end zone to score a touchdown during the second half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Nov. 20, 2021, in Honolulu. (AP Photo/Darryl Oumi)
NCAA approves late addition to bowl lineup, 42nd game
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Leah Perkins, of Worcester, Mass., center, stands in line to receive a booster shot of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021, at a mobile vaccination clinic, in Worcester. As the U.S. recorded its first confirmed case of the omicron variant, doctors across the country are experiencing a more imminent crisis with a delta variant that is sending record numbers of people to the hospital in New England and the Midwest. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
'The fire that's here': US is still battling delta variant
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Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James, left, gets past to shoot against Detroit Pistons guard Hamidou Diallo, right, during the first half of an NBA basketball game Sunday, Nov. 28, 2021, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Alex Gallardo)
LeBron James out of COVID-19 protocols, cleared to return
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This photo provided by the Fergus County Sheriff's Office shows a grain elevator burning in the central Montana town of Denton on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021. A late-season wildfire pushed by, strong winds, ripped through the tiny central Montana farming community burning two dozen homes and four grain elevators. About 300 residents were evacuated early Wednesday afternoon. The evacuation orders were lifted Thursday. No injuries were reported. (Fergus County Sheriff's Office via AP)
Wildfire destroys 24 houses in central Montana town
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FILE - Fans arrive at Minute Maid Park where the roof on the stadium was open for Game 2 of baseball's World Series between the Houston Astros and the Atlanta Braves, Oct. 27, 2021, in Houston. MLB’s labor strife showdown pits the league’s owners vs. the players with a notable third party warily watching: the fans. It is unlikely the people who actually pay for tickets will have much sympathy for either side. Fans are hoping for a quick resolution to the first MLB work stoppage in 26 years. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis, File)
Winter of waiting: Baseball fans hope MLB lockout fleeting
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FILE - China's Peng Shuai serves to Japan's Nao Hibino during their first round singles match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, on Jan. 21, 2020. The stand the women's professional tennis tour is taking in China over concern about Grand Slam doubles champion Peng Shuai's well-being could cost the WTA millions of dollars and end up being unique among sports bodies. The International Olympic Committee is preparing to host the Winter Games in Beijing in two months and has held calls with Peng to show she is doing well — but never raised the matter of the sexual assault allegations she made against a former Chinese government official. (AP Photo/Andy Brownbill, File)
Women's tennis' China stance could be unique, cost millions
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Election officials begin the process of recounting one of two unresolved races that will settle whether Virginia Republicans have reclaimed the majority in the House of Delegates, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021 in Virginia Beach, Va. (Stephen M. Katz/The Virginian-Pilot via AP)
Virginia House recount underway; could affirm GOP majority
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People attending a vigil embrace at LakePoint Community Church in Oxford, Mich., Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021. Authorities say a 15-year-old sophomore opened fire at Oxford High School, killing several students and wounding multiple other people, including a teacher. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
PHOTOS: Michigan school shooting: What we know now
Navy Blue Angels crew members landed in Dayton in the new F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet, for a pre-show visit Monday morning, Nov. 29, 2021. MARSHALL GORBY\STAFF
PHOTOS: Navy Blue Angels crew in Dayton for pre-show visit
Fred Hammond performs at the Soul Train Music Awards at the Apollo Theater on Saturday, Nov. 20, 2021, in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
PHOTOS: 2021 Soul Train Music Awards
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U.S. gymnasts from left, Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney, Aly Raisman and Maggie Nichols, arrive to testify during a Senate Judiciary hearing about the Inspector General's report on the FBI's handling of the Larry Nassar investigation on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021, in Washington. Nassar was charged in 2016 with federal child pornography offenses and sexual abuse charges in Michigan. He is now serving decades in prison after hundreds of girls and women said he sexually abused them under the guise of medical treatment when he worked for Michigan State and Indiana-based USA Gymnastics, which trains Olympians. (Saul Loeb/Pool via AP)
Photos of the Month: CMA Awards, Black Panther statue and more
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A well wisher kneels to pray at a memorial on the sign of Oxford High School in Oxford, Mich., Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021. A 15-year-old sophomore opened fire at the school, killing several students and wounding multiple other people, including a teacher. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
Charges weighed for Michigan shooting suspect's parents
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Indianapolis Colts' Zach Pascal (14) fumbles as he is hit by Tampa Bay Buccaneers' Mike Edwards (32) during the first half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Nov. 28, 2021, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/AJ Mast)
Antonio Brown, 2 others suspended for violating COVID rules
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FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2011, file photo, Seif al-Islam Gadhafi speaks to the media at a press conference in a hotel in Tripoli, Libya. Libya's top electoral body said Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2021, that Seif al-Islam Gadhafi, the son and one-time heir apparent of the late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi is disqualified from running in presidential elections that are supposed to take place next month. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
Libyan court says Gadhafi's son can run for president
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FILE - A man takes part in a demonstration against the country's coronavirus restrictions in Vienna, Austria, Saturday, Nov. 20, 2021. The coronavirus's omicron variant kept a jittery world off-kilter Wednesday Dec. 1, 2021, as reports of infections linked to the mutant strain cropped up in more parts of the globe, and one official said that the wait for more information on its dangers felt like “an eternity.” (AP Photo/Lisa Leutner, File)
Omicron and delta spell return of unpopular restrictions
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FILE - Attorney Sidney Powell speaks during a rally on Dec. 2, 2020, in Alpharetta, Ga. Powell and eight other lawyers allied with former President Donald Trump were ordered Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021, to pay Detroit and Michigan $175,000 in sanctions for abusing the court system with a sham lawsuit challenging the 2020 election results. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)
Lawyers allied with Trump ordered to pay $175K in sanctions
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Abimbola Osundairo, right, prays with his brother Olabinjo Osundairo, center, a bodyguard, left, and their attorney Gloria Schmidt Rodriguez, upon their arrival at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse on day four of actor Jussie Smollett's trial Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021, 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. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
Second brother testifies Smollett paid for staged attack
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FILE - Richard Bensinger, left, who is advising unionization efforts, along with baristas Casey Moore, right, Brian Murray, second from left, and Jaz Brisack, second from right, discuss their efforts to unionize three Buffalo-area stores, inside the movements headquarters on Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021 in Buffalo, N.Y. Starbucks is fighting an expanded effort to unionize its stores. The effort comes even as a union vote proceeds at three of the coffee chain's locations in Buffalo, New York. Union organizers from three additional Buffalo-area stores appeared before the National Labor Relations Board on Thursday, Dec. 2, asking to hold union votes at each of their stores. (AP Photo/Carolyn Thompson, File).
Starbucks fights expanding unionization effort at its stores
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Virginia Tech head coach J.C. Price, left, shakes the hand of Virginia head coach Bronco Mendenhall after an NCAA college football game Saturday Nov 27, 2021, in Charlottesville, Va. Tech won the game 29-24. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
Virginia coach Bronco Mendenhall stepping down after bowl
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Rory McIlroy, of Northern Ireland, hits out of a bunker on the 5th hole during the first round of the Hero World Challenge PGA Tour at the Albany Golf Club, in New Providence, Bahamas, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021.(AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
Rory McIlroy part of 3-way tie for lead in the Bahamas
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Katie Wright, the mother of Daunte Wright, left, and his father, Arbuey Wright, right, arrive Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021 at the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis. Minneapolis police officer Kim Potter, who is white, is charged with manslaughter in the April 11 shooting of Wright, a 20-year-old Black motorist, following a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)
Jury nearly complete for Potter trial in Daunte Wright death
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FILE - Migrants leave Huixtla, Chiapas state, Mexico, Oct. 27, 2021, as they continue their trek north toward Mexico's northern states and the U.S. border. The Biden administration struck agreement with Mexico to reinstate a Trump-era border policy next week that forces asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court, U.S. officials said Thursday. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, file)
US will resume policy for asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico
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This image released by MGM shows Cooper Hoffman, left, and Alana Haim in a scene from "Licorice Pizza." The National Board of Review named the "Licorice Pizza" as best film of the year. (MGM via AP)
NBR Awards name 'Licorice Pizza' its best film of 2021
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In this courtroom sketch, Ghislaine Maxwell is seated at the defense table while watching testimony of witnesses during her trial, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021, in New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)
Ex-Epstein staffer testifies teen accusers visited mansion
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FILE - People gather in the Nvidia booth at the Mobile World Congress mobile phone trade show Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014 in Barcelona, Spain. The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021 sued to block graphics chip maker Nvidia’s $40 billion purchase of chip designer Arm, saying the deal would create a powerful company that could hurt the growth of new technologies. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez, File)
US government sues to block $40 billion Nvidia-Arm chip deal
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People walk past an exhibit which will be used in an Olujimi dance piece by Michelle Grant-Murray at the Afrikin Art Fair during Miami Art Week, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021, in Miami. Miami Art Week is an annual event centered around the Art Basel Miami Beach fair. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
Celebs, fashion, 24k chicken wings at Miami Art Basel
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A woman in an doctors uniform holds a poster that reads "Abortion is Healthcare" as abortion rights advocates and anti-abortion protesters demonstrate in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, in Washington, as the court hears arguments in a case from Mississippi, where a 2018 law would ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, well before viability. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Preview of 'a post-Roe world' in Texas over abortion access
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