Covid hospitalizations are up 43% from a month ago as the Omicron variant takes hold in the U.S. sparking a return to online classes and new masks and vaccine mandates, with President Biden warning of a “winter of severe illness and death for the unvaccinated” that will “overwhelm” hospitals.

Plus, as ‘Build Back Better’ legislation is pushed into 2022 Democrats air their frustration with Senator Joe Manchin; a Louisiana judge is under pressure to resign over a racist n-word home video; Claudette Colvin’s record is expunged 66 years after her arrest for not giving up her bus seat to a white person and activist group ‘Moms for Liberty’ turns “parental rights” into a rallying cry for conservative parents.

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