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Ilhan Omar's husband Tim Mynett received $635,000 in Covid-19 bailout money for his consulting firm, according to records. The Daily Mail reports that Mynett co-owns the Washington D.C. firm E Street Group. The company received $134,800 in Paycheck Protection Program loans. It also got $500,000 for in Economic Injury Disaster loans in April. In addition, E Street Group was also paid $2,256,700 since the start of 2020 from Omar's campaign. E Street billed for digital advertising, fundraising consulting and website production. Omar announced in mid-November that her campaign was terminating its contract with the firm after scrutiny about the payments.
The premier of Ontario announces that he will lift vaccine passport requirements in the Canadian province, the epicenter of protests against Covid-19 health measures for more than two weeks now. SOUNDBITE
Canadian truckers stage a protest outside the parliament against Covid vaccine mandates, in Canada's capital Ottawa. The trucker-led protests have shut down central Ottawa for 14 days, trying to force the government to lift Covid-19 health regulations. The so-called Freedom Convoy began last month in western Canada -- launched in anger at requirements that truckers either be vaccinated, or test and isolate, when crossing the US-Canada border. IMAGES
Thousands of demonstrators from across the US march in Washington, DC, to decry Covid-19 mandates. Mostly maskless, the protesters walk from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial in a city that has adopted mask and vaccine mandates. IMAGES
A nurse was arrested in Palermo, Sicily, for pretending to administer a Covid-19 vaccine to consenting patients, in particular to two spouses. In the video surveillance images, the nurse empties the content of a syringe into a gauze before giving the injection. IMAGES