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Extreme cold weather has triggered a shutdown of COVID-19 testing facilities across Massachusetts as forecasters warn of the arctic blast’s effect extending to the Northeast.

The child’s body was found Friday evening in an alley near a vacant home on Van Buren Street in Gary, Indiana, two days after the family called to report him missing.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, an advocate of mask wearing and Covid restrictions, tested positive of COVID-19, more than a week after photos of her without a mask in Miami Beach emerged.

Jeremy Tremaine Williams, who was arrested in December for the murder of Kamarie Holland, has become the primary suspect in the 2005 death of his infant daughter.

Friday’s no classes call marked the third consecutive day that Chicago Public Schools canceled classes amid a feud with the teachers union over stricter COVID-19 safety policies.

The former youth pastor at First Baptist Church in Goshen will serve 20 years behind bars for molesting boys as young as 11 from 2012 to 2019.

In the lawsuit, Abbott said that “neither the President nor federal military officials can order the Governor of Texas and state officials how to govern the Guardsmen under their command.”

A bomb threat on an HBCU campus in North Carolina triggered a temporary evacuation of students and faculty as other campuses reported similar incidents.

“If we take the House, which I said is overwhelmingly likely, then I think we will see serious investigations of the Biden administration,” Sen. Ted Cruz said on the latest episode of his podcast.

Alabama State Health Officer Scott Harris said the Omicron variant “will infect a very large number of people in Alabama before it finally subsides.”

Five missing girls, including two teenage sisters, were found during a two-month operation in New Orleans.

Lyndon James McLeod, who was accused of killing five people in a shooting spree Monday, allegedly published books online that mentioned some of his victims’ real-life names and described events similar to the attacks.

Gov. Brian Kemp said the government “will be deploying approximately 200 troops starting January 3.”

Kuachua Brillion Xiong, 25, told a sheriff’s deputy that he disapproved of the current administration. Xiong's targets included former President Barack Obama and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

A cause of death for Cedric Lofton, 17, was described as "complications of cardiopulmonary arrest sustained after physical struggle while restrained in the prone position," according to the autopsy report filed in Sedgwick County District Court.

In addition to retail store closures in New York, Apple has also shut down stores in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Texas, Georgia, Ohio and Florida.

The Frederick Police Department said in a statement that Jaion Antonio Penamon was pronounced dead at the scene after 20-year-old Darin Tyler Robey shot him multiple times.

A teenager fell from the 16th deck of the MSC Seashore cruise ship and investigators are looking into a potential suicide case.

Luke Oeltjenbruns, 61, pleaded guilty to first-degree assault and second-degree assault for the incident.

"Every day, it goes up and up – the last weekly average was about 150,000, and it likely will go much higher," Dr. Anthony Fauci said, adding that it is not the time to "get complacent."

The Guantanamo Bay base hospital said Sunday that none of the infected crew members from the Milwaukee required hospitalization after the outbreak.

President Biden has yet to make a decision on mounting pressure regarding an extension of the student loan payments pause due to expire Jan. 31.

While the Jan. 6 committee has yet to issue an official subpoena to call in Scott Perry, it has sent out a letter to formally request that the Pennsylvania lawmaker cooperates in the panel’s efforts to probe the riot.

Sen. Joe Manchin went public about his opposition to the Build Back Better Act on Sunday, but sources say he has spoken to President Joe Biden over the phone in a cordial conversation, raising hopes for renewed negotiations.

The staffer and Biden spent 30 minutes together on an Air Force One on Friday as they headed to Philadelphia from South Carolina.

James David Russell was initially charged with first-degree murder in the Sept. 10 death of 70-year-old David Flaget but Bonner County Prosecutor Louis Marshall filed an amended criminal complaint last week adding cannibalism to the charges against Russell.

Gabriel Boric’s win came following widespread anti-government protests that stemmed from alleged government corruption and socio-economic inequality in the country.

A staff member of the Watkins Elementary School reportedly asked students to pretend that they were digging ditches to serve as mass graves.

"We’re a free-market economy," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, adding: "They should be able to participate in that."