12/15: The House holds former Trump chief of staff in contempt of Congress. U.S. deaths linked to COVID-19 surpass 800,000.

Former President Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows is being held in contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate in the Jan. 6 investigation, as witnesses say people in the Trump administration had advance knowledge of the potential for the day’s events to turn violent. Global tech firms around the world are scrambling to get ahead of cyber criminals who could gain full access to computer systems via a newly revealed security flaw. President Biden is traveling to Kentucky today to survey the damage left by what could become the deadliest tornado in the state’s history. More than 92 million Americans are under wind alerts as a massive weather system moves through the nation’s midsection, including Kentucky. U.S. deaths linked to COVID-19 have topped 800,000. Cornell University shuts down all in-person classes, activities and athletics amid an outbreak of nearly 500 cases of COVID-19. Children under the age of 12 are still not eligible for vaccines in South Africa, where a new study finds the Omicron variant is causing less severe illness in vaccinated adults.

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