🗣A virus expert has warned that 32,000 people could die of the coronavirus before the end of the year.

“32,000 Americans who think they’re going to be alive to celebrate Christmas and New Years are, no pun intended, dead wrong,” top immunologist, Dr Gregory Poland, said. “Not one of them believes [it].”

Poland’s comments come amid the new omicron variant of Covid-19 already in half of all US states.

WATCH | ✈️Delta Flight 342 from Washington DC to LA diverted To Oklahoma City after a passenger attacked a flight attendant and a Federal Air Marshal who intervened.

The passenger was removed from the flight by local law enforcement.

⚡️ Jeff Bezos 'heartbroken' after tornado kills at least six Amazon employees in Illinois

🇺🇦🇷🇺 US President Joe Biden says Washington never planned to send troops to Ukraine, but the US has warned Russian President Vladimir Putin that there will be consequences in case of any aggression.

⚡️ Vladimir Putin told Joe Biden during call Russian troops located within country's borders pose no threat

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📹: Sputnik is live from Mayfield, Kentucky, after multiple tornados hit the US over the weekend, destroying buildings and leaving thousands without electricity.

At least 70 people died as a result, but it is feared that the number could rise to over 100.

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🤔 The lawyers of a student injured at the Oxford mass shooting reportedly claim that school officials have started to destroy evidence.

The Oxford School District is facing a $100 mln lawsuit from a student who was shot in the neck and her sister, who saw it happen. Their lawyers accuse school officials of deleting the school website of administrators, as well as social media accounts.

📃 “Not only did defendants fail to take necessary steps to preserve the evidence, but they willfully destructed the evidence by deleting the webpages and social media accounts”, attorney Nora Hanna reportedly wrote in a filing.

A lawyer for the school district has reportedly called the allegations “disgusting” and “a lie”.

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📹 Joe Biden jokes that he no longer pays attention to his approval ratings:

“I was paying attention when they were in the mid-60s. But now, in the mid-40s, I don't pay attention anymore.”

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❗️ Chris Wallace is leaving Fox News after 18 years.

"After 18 years I have decided to leave Fox," Wallace said on Fox News Sunday. "I want to try something new to go beyond politics to all the things I'm interested in. I'm ready for a new adventure."

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⚡️ Chris Wallace to join CNN’s upcoming streaming service CNN+

❗️The announcement from CNN