🇺🇸🇨🇳Former US President Donald Trump has objected to the Biden administration's decision to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics in China, citing his memory of a similar move by Jimmy Carter against the Moscow Olympics in 1980.

"No, because I watched Jimmy Carter do it and it was terrible. It was terrible. It hurts the athletes. There are much more powerful things we can do than that," Trump said in an interview with Fox News, when asked if he would do it.

The 2022 boycott will be of a diplomatic nature, meaning that US athletes are still free to compete. In 1980, US athletes missed the games.

⚡️ Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday

🦠 New York State has quietly surpassed more than 60,000 deaths from the coronavirus

President Trump at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas being interviewed by Bill O’Reilly. Lots of energy and enthusiasm!

Florida Gov.@RonDeSantisChannel said Floridians know he will not "let anybody lock them down" or remove them from their jobs.

🗣 "At the end of the day in Florida, Floridians know we will not let anybody lock them down. We will not let anyone take their jobs," DeSantis said.

🗣 "We will not let anyone ruin their businesses, and we will not let anyone close their schools, so people are going to be able to live life. They're going to be able to make their own decisions."

⚡️ Sen. Cory Booker says he contracted COVID-19, just hours after Sen. Elizabeth Warren announced her diagnosis

US hospitals overwhelmed and not ready for influx of Omicron patients, reports say

A major scandal in the NYPD: a female officer was filmed performing a very saucy lap dance for her lieutenant. An investigation has been opened into the matter.

The man in a video depicting the event, Nick McGarry, reportedly declared he's sorry about the incident and knew he "f**ked up".

Hillary Clinton has spoken out about the one, who "poses a real clear and present danger to the United States"

📹 At least eight in hospital after car incident involving US soldiers in Bavaria, reports say

What does the US government do with its huge stockpile of cryptocurrencies? 🧐

🇺🇸🏺🇮🇹 In a landmark restitution, the US has returned to Italy 200 illegally exported antiquities from top US museums and private collections. The total cost of the donated items is estimated at $ 10 million.

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NASCAR driver Brandon Brown thinks that his association with the chant "Let's Go Brandon!" may negatively affect his career: "Our whole navigation is, you want to appeal to everybody, because, all in all, everybody is a consumer. But with this meme going viral, it was more of, I had to stay more silent, because everybody wanted it to go on to the political side. I'm about the racing side. I don't want it to just be the substitute for a cuss-word. I mean, if it's making it more polite, then, by God, I guess, go ahead".

❗️Trump sues New York Attorney General Letitia James to stop probe into his business practices - report

⚡️Washington state Sen. Doug Ericksen has died at age 52, weeks after he said he had tested positive for the coronavirus

❗️Washington, DC to reinstate indoor mask mandate beginning 21 December until the morning of 31 January, Mayor Muriel Bowser says

❗️White House: US ready to engage in diplomacy with Russia, says dialogue must be based on reciprocity

The Daytona Independent School District is examining a video that appears to show someone pointing a pistol at a school bus, leaning out of a sunroof in a car.

The person seems to be waving their hands or giving peace signs in the car as it drives behind the school bus. After a few seconds, the man gets into the car and then reappears with a pistol.

The students screamed as the man pointed a pistol at the back of the bus

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⚡️Magnitude 6.2 earthquake shakes Northern California, EMSC

🇺🇸🇺🇦 A small assessment team from the Pentagon visited Ukraine recently to discuss air defense needs for the country, according to the US Department of Defense

🇺🇸🇷🇺👩‍🚀🚀 Rotational flights of Russian cosmonauts on SpaceX vehicles and American astronauts on Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS are expected to commence next fall after a relevant agreement is reached, NASA says.