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The panel sent a criminal contempt of Congress referral to the full House, as the extent of Mark Meadows’s role in President Donald J. Trump’s efforts to overturn the election became clearer.
Families were mourning in several states after a swarm of tornadoes left a trail of destruction. “It’s almost crushing how it feels,” said Kentucky’s governor, Andy Beshear.
A new musical imagines the all-singing, all-dancing LSD trips of Aldous Huxley, Clare Boothe Luce and Cary Grant.
China’s government has supported foreign YouTubers who put a positive spin on its policies, in its latest effort to shape how the world sees it.
America’s response to the variant highlights both how much progress we have made over the past two years — and how much work remains.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 8, 2021, covering December 14, 2021.
Adele
Taylor Swift
Michael Buble
Olivia Rodrigo
Drake
In 2021, the world population was approximately 7,954,448,391 people[†]