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Three days before Thanksgiving, a planeload of passengers from South Africa touched down in San Francisco. One of them was a woman who was in the early stages of a Covid-19 infection, though she wouldn't know it for almost another week.

After a delay of more than a week due to the plaintiff's having tested positive for Covid, attorneys finally gave opening statements in former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's defamation lawsuit against The New York Times on Thursday.

This week, President Joe Biden made two decisions that belied his reputation as a dove. He approved the deployment of 3,000 US troops to Eastern Europe as a result of the growing numbers of Russian forces that are arrayed near Ukraine. And he authorized the special forces raid Wednesday that killed ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi.

The US commando raid in Syria that resulted in the death of the top leader of ISIS came at a moment when President Joe Biden was badly in need of a commander-in-chief moment with his leadership under siege at home and overseas.

MacKenzie Scott has donated $133.5 million to educational nonprofit Communities in School, an organization that helps students navigate issues inside and outside of the classroom.

Michael Igel had listened to his grandparents' memories of the Holocaust for years when as a tween, he first confronted a friend who had a swastika drawn on his shoe. At that moment, he quickly realized the atrocities his family survived were unknown to many.