12.1.21
CNN.com—Stacey Abrams announces that she will run for governor of Georgia in 2022
CBS News—CDC confirms first case of Omicron in the US
BBC News—Tucson police officer fired after firing nine shots at man in a wheelchair who was accused of shoplifting, killing him
NBC News—Anti-vaccine Christian radio show host dies at 64 after contracting Covid
ABCnews.com—Alec Baldwin says that he didn't pull the trigger of the gun that killed a person on the set of the movie Rust
USA Today—Burger King to cut some menu items in order to speed up drive-thru service

12.2.21
CNN.com—Germany announces lockdown protocols for unvaccinated people and indicates that it soon plans to make Covid vaccinations compulsory
ABCnews.com—Trump aide reveals that Trump tested positive for Covid prior to his first debate with Biden but did not inform Biden's team or the debate organizers
CBS News—MLB owners lock out the players to start baseball's first work stoppage in nearly 30 years
NBC News—Liberty University professor accused of abducting and sexually assaulting a student
BBC News—2021 had the third most active hurricane season on record. The top two were both in the last decade.
USA Today—New Zoom tool will let meeting organizers see who arrived late

12.3.21
ABCnews.com—Blizzard warning issued for Hawaii with 12 inches of snow forecast
CNN.com—Parents of boy who murdered four of his schoolmates and injured several others fail to show up for an arraignment after being charged with involuntary manslaugher for their role in the shooting
USA Today—Billionaire Mark Cuban buys an entire Texas town
CBS News—Biden signs short term funding bill that will avert a government shutdown until February
NBC News—US sending 9 million Covid vaccine doses to Africa
BBC News—FTC challenges Nvidia's buyout of rival chipmaker Arm

12.6.21
CNN.com—DOJ sues Texas over its heavily gerrymandered new election maps that discriminate against Black and Latinx voters
USA Today—Former GOP presidential nominee and senator Bob Dole dies at 98
NBC News—NYC mayor announces that the city will require private businesses to vaccinate all of its by the end of the year
CBS News—Tech company that just received $750 million in funding fires 900 employees simultaneously over a Zoom call
ABCnews.com—Toyota spending $1.3 billion to build battery plant in North Carolina
BBC News—Canada announces that it is tapping into its emergency maple syrup reserves

12.7.21
CNN.com—Former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows stops voluntarily cooperating with the Congressional committee investigating the Jan 6 insurrection
USA Today—68 ICU nurses and doctors in Spain test positive for Covid a week after attending an indoor Christmas party together
NBC News—AWS outage affecting many major online sites and services, including Disney+, Netflix, and Slack
BBC News—Jury decides that computer scientist who claims he invented Bitcoin can keep the entirity of a cache of 1.1 million of the cryptocurrency tokens that he supposedly owns, currently worth more than $50 billion
CBS News—2750 people have more combined wealth than half of the rest of the poulation on Earth
ABCnews.com—Hedge fund manager Peter Lynch donating $20 million worth of art, including a Picasso and a Cassatt, to his alma mater, Boston College

12.8.21
BBC News—Germany swears in a new chancellor as Merkel steps down
CBS News—There are 11 million job openings in the US, close to an all-time high
ABCnews.com—Man arrested after setting fire to 50 foot tall artificial Christmas tree outside of Fox News headquarters
NBC News—Biden signs executive order that will make the US government carbon neutral by 2050
USA Today—Oreo and Barefoot team up for a cookie-flavored red wine
CNN.com—Nike will no longer sell its shoes and apparel to DSW, one of the country's largest retail shoe chains

12.9.21
ABCnews.com—Columbus, Ohio, agrees to pay $5.57 million to 32 protesters who were inujured by police using excessive force during a march protesting police brutality
CBS News—Appeals court denies Trump's request to shield records from committee investigating the Jan 6 insurrection
CNN.com—The Metropolitan Museum of Art is removing the Sackler name from seven of its galleries
USA Today—Starbucks workers in Buffalo, NY, vote to unionize
BBC News—Global sales of Spam reach a new high for the seventh year in a row
NBC News—Canada bans conversion therapy, which attempts to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity

12.10.21
ABCnews.com—Inflation hits 39 year high
CBS News—Supreme Court allows Texas' abortion law to stand but says abortion providers can challenge it in federal court
CNN.com—Monkees member Michael Nesmith dies at 78
USA Today—False claims about the Jan 6 insurrection continue to freely circulate on Facebook
NBC News—Recent update to Tesla's auto software allows drivers to play video games even when the car is in motion
BBC News—New Zealand law would forbid anyone born after 2008 from ever purchasing tobacco products

12.13.21
CBS News—Supreme Court declines to block state vaccine mandate for healthcare workers in New York
ABCnews.com—Senator Rand Paul from Kentucky wants his state to receive federal disaster relief aid despite voting numerous times to deny such aid to other states facing natural disasters
CNN.com—Dollar Tree—which sells all items for $1—announces plans for a 25% price increase that will raise the cost of most items to $1.25
NBC News—USA Gymnastics will pay $380 million to hundreds of victims in Larry Nassar sex abuse scandal
BBC News—Man accidentally sells NFT worth hundreds of thousands of dollars for only $3,000 due to a misplaced decimal
USA Today—MGM selling its Mirage hotel and casino in Las Vegas for $1 billion to the hospitality group behind the Hard Rock Cafe

12.14.21
CBS News—DC attorney general sues Proud Boys and Oath Keepers over for their role in the Jan 6 insurrection
ABCnews.com—Federal judge appointed by Trump dismisses the former president's lawsuit that was attempting to prevent the release of his tax returns
CNN.com—Steph Curry breaks NBA all-time record for most three pointers
NBC News—Preliminary study from South Africa finds theat Omicron is more transmissible and is more resistant to current vaccines, but also results in milder cases of Covid
BBC News—Texts from Donald Trump Jr. to Mark Meadows show that even Don Jr. was pleading with his father to stop the Jan 6 insurrection
USA Today—Hobby Lobby to raise minimum wage for its workers to $18.50 an hour

12.15.21
CNN.com—To no one's surprise, Jim Jordan was revealed as one of the members of Congress who was actively colluding with the White House during the Jan 6 insurrection
ABCnews.com—Electric truck manufacturer Rivian will build $5 billion plant that employs 7500 workers near Atlanta
USA Today—NASA's Parker solar probe enters the sun's corona, the first spacecraft ever to do so
NBC News—Kroger will no longer offer paid sick leave for employees who get sick with Covid but who have refused to get vaccinated, but it will still be given to employees who have taken the vaccine
CBS News—National Archives releases hundreds of previously classified documents related to the Kennedy assassination
BBC News—Album featuring the songs of endangered birds goes to number one on the Australian music charts, beating out Abba and The Weeknd

12.16.21
ABCnews.com—Federal judge rejects opioid settlement that would have shielded the Sackler family from any personal consequences while leaving them incredibly wealthy
CBS News—Six antivaxxers arrested after protesting outside a Cheesecake Factory restaurant local regulations required proof of vaccination to dine indoors
USA Today—Former employee of religious broadcaster sues, claiming he was fired for wanting to follow local Covid mandates while at work
NBC News—The Fed announces that it could hike interest rates as many as three times in 2022
CNN.com—Kraft will reimburse up to 18,000 people $20 each to buy an alternate dessert if they are unable to find cream cheese to make cheesecakes for the holidays
BBC News—Former McDonald's CEO who had sexual relationships with multiple employees must give back $105 million from his severance package for lying to the Board of Directors

12.17.21
ABCnews.com—Roger Stone pleads the fifth in response to every question asked of him during his deposition by the Congressional committee investigating the Jan 6 insurrection
CNN.com—Report concludes that the Trump administration deliberately undermined efforts to combat Covid in the US
CBS News—Trump supporter who assaulted Capitol Police with a fire extinguisher on Jan 6 is sentenced to five years in prison
BBC News—US starts discharging soldiers who refuse to get vaccinated
USA Today—NFL delays three games after multiple teams experience significant Covid outbreaks
NBC News—Man kicked of United Airlines flight and permanently banned from the airline after attempting to use a woman's thong on his face to fulfill the masking requirement