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In French Guiana, the James Webb Space Telescope is on the launchpad being prepared for its Christmas morning flight.

Blood banks across the country are struggling to maintain their usual three-day supply as virus cases make donors and medical staff scarce. Britain is administering booster shots throughout the Christmas holiday.

United and other airlines face staff shortages as workers contract the virus. In New York, some Broadway shows are paused and the New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square is scaled back.

The Fed’s preferred inflation gauge, the Personal Consumption Expenditures index, climbed 5.7 percent in November from a year earlier.

China sets out elaborate precautions for February’s Winter Olympics. One measure: Spectators must clap, not shout, in support of athletes.

The prosecution and defense had agreed that the police shooting was a mistake and that Ms. Potter, who is white, had meant to draw her Taser when she fatally shot Mr. Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, during a traffic stop.

The new rule comes as rising case numbers lead to staff shortages in critical sectors, and as other European nations bring in new measures to curb widening outbreaks. Israel offers fourth vaccine doses.

Drivers can be distracted playing games while the vehicle is in motion, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said, following a New York Times report earlier this month.

The settlement comes months after federal prosecutors filed criminal charges against the founder of the electric truck company.

The N.H.L. pauses its season because of Omicron. President Biden announces new steps to quell the latest outbreak, including buying 500 million tests to distribute to the public for free.