Despite results from a South African study - where Omicron was initially detected - showing that this variant of the COVID-19 virus offers lowered severity, some major cities are re-ordering mandates for citizens.
Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough has rejected yet a third attempt by Democrats to push immigration reform through as a part of the Biden Administration's Build Back Better legislation.
On Thursday afternoon, President Joe Biden welcomed one soldier to the White House as well as the families of two others to honor their service with the Presidential Medal of Honor, an honor reserved for those who proved " an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endeavors."
The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog group, told reporters that restrictions his inspectors faced in Iran only gives the world "a very blurred image" of the nuclear progress in Iran.
The first major world study on the Omicron variant of COVID-19 found that not only is the variant causing less severe symptoms, but that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is less effective in protecting those who have had the vaccine.
Although two different courts across the United States have blocked vaccine mandates by the federal government, President Joe Biden is moving forward with his mandates regarding the military, even at the behest of some senior Republican Congress people.
An ABC News/Ipsos poll revealed on Sunday that Biden's approval rating when it comes to handing crime is only 36 percent. As recently as October, a similar poll by the same polling entity showed Biden's approval on handling crime was 43 percent.
The Congressional Budget Office released a new analysis of the bill on Friday, and the CBO says that the Build Back Better plan could actually add a whopping $3 trillion over the next decade if the programs in the spending bill are made permanent.