Christmas memory amid 800000 COVID deaths in Kansas
Carolyn Burnett honors her son Chris Burnett, a high school football coach who died of COVID-19, as the nation nears 800,000 deaths. The family framed a Chiefs football memorial for their holiday card while pondering loss, vaccines, and surging Omicron fears during a painful year.
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Chris
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Burnett
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Chiefs
Patrick Mahomes
Bam
Joe Biden
Midwest
Debbie Eaves
Oakdale Community Hospital
Louisiana
Kansas
Coach Cheese
Olathe East High School
Kansas City Glory
Steve Grove
Hennepin County Medical Center
Minneapolis
COVID
Charlie Riedel
Chris Burnett
Olathe
Senate approves 2.5 trillion debt limit raise amid deal
The Senate voted 50 to 49 along party lines to lift the debt limit by 2.5 trillion dollars, avoiding default before Treasury warnings and sending the measure to the House. The deal lets Democrats bypass a filibuster, while highlighting the ongoing costs and stakes of national borrowing.
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Washington
Treasury
Janet Yellen
House
Congress
White House
U.S
Trump
Oxford adopts zero tolerance after fatal Oxford High School shooting
Oxford Community Schools board announces a zero tolerance policy toward threats and new safety steps after the November 30 Oxford High School shooting that killed one student and wounded six others and a teacher. The district will deploy law enforcement in all schools, hire a security firm, bar backpacks, require clear bags, and remove students pending mental health evaluation. Ethan Crumbley, 15, is charged as an adult with murder. his parents face involuntary manslaughter counts.
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Oxford Community Schools Board of Education
Oxford High School
Jill Lemond
Ethan Crumbley
Oxford High
James
Jennifer Crumbley
Fireball from overturned tanker kills 75 in Cap Haitien
A gasoline tanker overturned and exploded in Cap-Haitien, Haiti, triggering a fireball that killed at least 75 people. Emergency crews battled flames as authorities and Prime Minister Ariel Henry visited hospitals amid shortages of medical supplies and staff.
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Joseph Odelyn
Justinien University Hospital
Cap-Haitien
Haiti
Ariel Henry
New York ethics panel orders ex Gov Cuomo to return book proceeds
New York ethics commissioners voted 12 to 1 to require former Governor Andrew Cuomo to surrender proceeds from his 2020 book American Crisis within 30 days. The panel rescinded prior approval after findings that state property and staff were used to prepare the work, sparking legal objections from Cuomo's attorney.
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Cuomo
Albany
N.y
Andrew Cuomo
New York
Ethics Commission
Joint Commission On Public Ethics
Crown Publishing Group
Penguin Random House
House votes to hold Mark Meadows in contempt
The House, by 222 to 208, holds former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in contempt for defying the Jan. 6 Committee. It marks the first time since the 1830s a former member has been cited. The case moves to U.S. attorneys for possible grand jury action and potential penalties up to one year per charge.
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LaTasha Perkins
Georgetown University Student Health
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Covid
Washington
House
White House
Mark Meadows
Congress
Capitol
Steve Bannon
Donald Trump
U.S. Attorney's Office
Meadows
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