Headlines for December 1, 2021

Omicron Detected in Europe Days Before South Africa Reported Variant; FDA Endorses Merck COVID Pill, Michigan High Schooler Kills 3 Other Students in Shooting Rampage, Mark Meadows to Testify Before House Jan. 6 Cmte, Panel Pursues Jeffrey Clark Contempt Charges
, U.S. Removes FARC From Terror Blacklist, HRW: Taliban Have Killed or Disappeared 100+ Ex-Afghan Security Forces Since August, German Court Convicts Ex-Member of Islamic State For Genocide of Iraq’s Yazidi Community, France Inducts Josephine Baker into Pantheon As Far-Right, Racist Pundit Announces Presidential Bid, Rep. Ilhan Omar Shares Violent, Islamophobic Threats Received Since Boebert’s Racist Comments, SCOTUS Hears Argument in Mississippi Abortion Case Which Threatens to Undo Roe v. Wade, CNN Suspends Chris Cuomo For Helping Then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo Handle Sexual Misconduct Reports, Trial of Kimberly Potter, Who Shot and Killed Daunte Wright, Gets Underway in Minnesota, NYC Opens Safe Injection Sites In Bid to Combat Record Overdose Deaths, Phil Saviano, Survivor-Turned-Whistlblower of Catholic Church Child Sex Abuse, Dies