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Top Eight

Top eight stories for today including Michigan is reeling from a sharp rise in Covid-19 cases driven by a potpourri of foreign variants; Around 20% of Americans remain reluctant to be vaccinated against the coronavirus; Irish airline Ryanair lost another challenge against generous government aid packages meant to keep its competitors in business, and more.

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Top eight stories for today including Michigan is reeling from a sharp rise in Covid-19 cases driven by a potpourri of foreign variants; Around 20% of Americans remain reluctant to be vaccinated against the coronavirus; Irish airline Ryanair lost another challenge against generous government aid packages meant to keep its competitors in business, and more.

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National

1.) For the first time since 2019, senior intelligence community officials appeared Wednesday before the U.S. Senate to offer an open assessment on threats facing America after a year of pandemic, upticks in domestic violent extremism and sweeping cybersecurity breaches.  

The U.S. Capitol in Washington. (Courthouse News photo/Jack Rodgers)

2.) Around 20% of Americans remain reluctant to be vaccinated against the coronavirus even as more of their friends and neighbors are accepting the shot, a Monmouth University poll revealed Tuesday.

Volunteers and health care workers carry out a mass vaccination campaign at the former site of a Sears department store in a partnership with San Diego County, the city of Chula Vista and Sharp HealthCare. (Courthouse News photo/Barbara Leonard)

3.) The D.C. Circuit offered little hope Wednesday to travelers worried that airlines will see little actual punishment, or worse wind up benefitting, from the settlement of a massive antitrust suit.

A traveler with Global Entry or TSA PreCheck goes through security at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on Sept. 26, 2020. (Courthouse News photo/Barbara Leonard)

4.) U.S. Representative Devin Nunes urged a federal appeals court Wednesday to reverse an Iowa district court’s dismissal of his libel lawsuit against Esquire magazine over what he calls a “hit job” by journalist Ryan Lizza.

FILE - In this Wednesday, March 21, 2018, file photo, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif,. is seen during the hearing on trade policy before the House Ways and Means Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Nunes is being criticized by his rival in the November election after a photo on social media showed Nunes next to a supporter making a hand gesture that some consider racist. Nunes' campaign did not immediately respond for a request for comment. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Regional

5.) Michigan is reeling from a sharp rise in Covid-19 cases driven by a potpourri of foreign variants that have infiltrated the state as the governor ponders new restrictions and pleads with the federal government for more vaccines, to no avail.

People wait 15 minutes after receiving the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine at Ford Field in Detroit to rule out any severe medical reaction. (Courthouse News photo/Andy Olesko)

6.) The former Minnesota police officer who shot and killed 20-year-old Daunte Wright, sparking more protests and law-enforcement crackdowns in the already tense Twin Cities metro, will be charged with second-degree manslaughter, prosecutors said Wednesday.

This May 31, 2007 photo shows Officer Kim Potter, part of the Brooklyn Center Police negotiation team in Brooklyn Center, Minn. Potter, who fatally shot Daunte Wright, a Black man, during a traffic stop on Sunday, April 11, 2021 in the Minneapolis suburb and the city’s chief of police have resigned. Brooklyn Center Mayor Mike Elliott says he hopes the moves will heal the community and lead to reconciliation after two nights of protests and unrest. (Bruce Bisping/Star Tribune via AP)

International

7.) While prosecutors told the International Criminal Court that Dominic Ongwen should be given 20 years in prison for atrocities he committed against Ugandans as a leader in the Lord’s Resistance Army, lawyers representing the victims have asked for the maximum sentence of life. 

The Trial Chamber IX of the International Criminal Court found Dominic Ongwen guilty on Thursday, February 4, 2021, of 61 crimes against humanity and war crimes, committed in Northern Uganda between July 1, 2002, and December 31, 2005. (Image via Courthouse News courtesy of ICC)

8.) Ireland’s popular no-frills airline Ryanair lost another challenge Wednesday against generous government aid packages meant to keep its competitors in business after the coronavirus pandemic.

A Ryanair jet plane parks at the airport in Weeze, Germany, on Sept. 12, 2018. French authorities seized a Ryanair plane on Nov. 9, 2018, and forced 149 passengers to disembark because of a dispute over subsidies to the Irish airline. The French civil aviation authority announced it had impounded the plane on the tarmac of the Bordeaux-Merignac airport as a “last resort.” (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, file)
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