News from the note…
A round up of the day’s news that might be of interest to you.
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Dr. Fauci: "Although we haven't proven it yet, there's every reason to believe that if you get vaccinated and boosted, that you would have at least some degree of cross-protection very likely against severe disease, even against the Omicron variant." pic.twitter.com/xlsyjygm5M
— CBS News (@CBSNews) December 3, 2021
DEVELOPING: The parents of the Michigan school shooting suspect were scheduled to surrender at 2 p.m. for a court appearance but have not appeared, according to a source.
— ABC News (@ABC) December 3, 2021
They were charged earlier with involuntary manslaughter. https://t.co/gEUHtLYON7
Judge orders pro-Trump election lawyers to pay $175,000 in sanctions https://t.co/OW2rLF6F6q pic.twitter.com/A3dYu21Xtg
— The Hill (@thehill) December 3, 2021
John Eastman, the attorney who helped Donald Trump pressure Mike Pence to overturn the 2020 election, has asserted his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination https://t.co/FCBE9QgoXu
— POLITICO (@politico) December 3, 2021
Pres. Joe Biden has signed a short-term funding bill to keep the government open until Feb. 18, 2022, narrowly averting a shutdown that loomed for Friday, the White House said. https://t.co/AjhT0VnKMh
— ABC News (@ABC) December 3, 2021
Jeffrey Epstein accuser reflects on being a sex trafficking victim — and recruiting other girls: "The guilt will never go away" https://t.co/wZkH2nhCEz
— CBS News (@CBSNews) December 3, 2021
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump appeared before a federal appeals court to argue that the U.S. government should take his place as the defendant in a defamation lawsuit filed by columnist E. Jean Carroll who accused him of rape. https://t.co/dzUgNY3V3K
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 3, 2021
Putin is demanding a legally binding guarantee that NATO will not expand east — including to Ukraine — and plans to raise the issue in an upcoming phone call with Biden.
— Axios (@axios) December 3, 2021
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Milwaukee County DA says "human error" was to blame for the suspect in the Waukesha, Wisconsin, Christmas parade tragedy being released on low cash bail. https://t.co/NoSzwvBzCE
— NBC News (@NBCNews) December 3, 2021
Trump's PAC has spent $1.4 million in Facebook and Google ads for a potential 2024 campaign — despite being banned from posting on Facebook https://t.co/Zs4oBy8q9v
— Axios (@axios) December 3, 2021
A 50-year-old man tried to pass off a silicone arm as his own at a Covid-19 vaccination clinic in northern Italy, in an attempt to get a vaccine certificate without actually getting inoculated. https://t.co/K7ZOdOTwPi
— CNN (@CNN) December 3, 2021
