December 24, 2021: United, Delta cancel flights, Omicron, Kim Potter, Georgia poll staff, Tiananmen

December 24, 2021: United, Delta, cancel Christmas Eve flights, Omicron wave, Kim Potter guilty, Georgia poll workers, Tiananmen

1. United Airlines and Delta Air Lines have canceled hundreds of Christmas Eve flights, as the spreading COVID-19 Omicron variant takes a toll on its flight crews and other workers.

2. Millions of Americans carried on with travel plans through a second pandemic-clouded holiday season, despite a growing wave of COVID-19 infections driven by the Omicron variant, as hundreds of canceled flights added to the turmoil.

3. A Minnesota jury found former police officer Kimberly Potter guilty of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Black motorist Daunte Wright during a traffic stop when she mistakenly fired her handgun instead of her Taser.

4. Two Georgia election workers who were the target of vote-rigging conspiracy theories have sued the far-right One America News Network, its top executives, and former President Donald Trump’s ex-lawyer Rudy Giuliani for allegedly spreading lies about them.

5. Two more Hong Kong universities removed public monuments to the 1989 Tiananmen protests in Beijing, following the dismantling of a sculpture commemorating victims of the crackdown at another university this week.

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