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FILE - In this March 23, 2021 file photo, pedestrians walk past the New York Stock Exchange in New York's Financial District. Stocks are opening lower on Wall Street after the head of a major vaccine maker expressed concern about how effective current jabs will be against the new variant of the coronavirus. The S&P 500 gave back 0.6%, the Nasdaq slipped 0.3% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.9%. European markets were also modestly lower. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Asian shares mixed after omicron worries rattle Wall Street

Asian shares mixed after omicron worries rattle Wall Street
FILE - In this March 23, 2021 file photo, pedestrians walk past the New York Stock Exchange in New York's Financial District. Stocks are opening lower on Wall Street after the head of a major vaccine maker expressed concern about how effective current jabs will be against the new variant of the coronavirus. The S&P 500 gave back 0.6%, the Nasdaq slipped 0.3% and the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.9%. European markets were also modestly lower. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
CNN suspends Chris Cuomo for helping brother in scandal
FILE - Chris Cuomo attends The Hollywood Reporter's annual Most Powerful People in Media cocktail reception on April 11, 2019, in New York. CNN said Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021, it was suspending the anchor indefinitely after details emerged about how he helped his brother, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, as he faced charges of sexual harassment. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
Arizona officer fired after shooting of shoplifting suspect
Elizabeth Holmes gets emotional under fire by prosecutors
FILE - Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO of Theranos, left, leaves the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building in downtown San Jose, Calif., on Tuesday, May 4, 2021. The U.S. government rested its case in the trial of fallen Silicon Valley star Elizabeth Holmes on Friday, Nov 19, after spending more than two months trying to prove she bamboozled investors, patients and business partners into believing that her startup Theranos was about to reshape health care by using just a few drops for blood for tests that usually require vials of the stuff.(Nhat V. Meyer/Bay Area News Group via AP, File)
Can California legally require women on corporate boards?
FILE - Then-California Gov. Jerry Brown talks during an interview in Sacramento, Calif., on Dec. 18, 2018. When former Gov. Brown signed the nation's first law requiring that women sit on corporate boards of publicly traded companies, he suggested it might not survive legal challenges. Three years later, a judge will begin hearing evidence on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, in Los Angeles Superior Court that could undo a law that has already been credited with giving more women a seat in boardrooms. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
US panel backs first-of-a-kind COVID-19 pill from Merck
FILE - This undated file image provided by Merck & Co. shows their new antiviral medication molnupiravir. An experimental COVID-19 drug that could soon become the first U.S.-authorized pill to treat the coronavirus faces one final hurdle Tuesday: A panel of government experts will scrutinize data on the medication from drugmaker Merck. (Merck & Co. via AP, File)
Ex-airline employee sentenced for stealing guns from bags
Court upholds California ban on high-capacity magazines
FILE - In this Dec. 27, 2012, file photo, a variety of military-style semi-automatic rifles obtained during a buy back program are displayed at Los Angeles police headquarters. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned two lower court judges and upheld California's ban on high-capacity magazines Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021, in a split decision that may be headed for the U.S. Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
Live updates: Obama, Fauci encourage vaccinations at clinic
People wearing face masks to curb the spread of COVID-19 walk in downtown Lisbon, Monday, Nov. 29, 2021. Portuguese health authorities on Monday identified 13 cases of omicron, the new coronavirus variant spreading fast globally, among members of the Lisbon-based Belenenses SAD soccer club, and were investigating possible local transmission of the virus outside of southern Africa. (AP Photo/Ana Brigida)
New Texas rules after blackout, but not for this winter
FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2021, file photo, Ricki Mills looks out from her home as she waits for a fire hydrant to be turned to get water, in Dallas on Feb. 23, 2021. Texas is again at high risk of power blackouts this winter because of extreme weather like the catastrophic February storm that buckled the state's electric grid and left millions of people without heat for days, regulators said Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)
Germany's designated chancellor backs COVID vaccine mandate
A sign in the pedestrian zone indicates that masks are mandatory in Cologne, Germany Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021. In North Rhine-Westphalia, protective measures are to be tightened this week in view of the intensified Corona situation. (Oliver Berg/dpa via AP)
Sports bettors dream: 86 able to bet on game after it ended
FILE - Manchester United's Marcus Rashford, top, scores his side's second goal during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester United and Liverpool at the Old Trafford Stadium in Manchester, England, Thursday, May 13, 2021. New Jersey gambling regulators have fined two sports betting companies for mistakenly allowing 86 gamblers from New Jersey to place bets on whether Rashford would score a goal in the game after the game had already ended and Rashford had in fact scored. (Michael Regan/Pool Photo via AP, File)
Biden tries to reassure on COVID as he sells spending plan
President Joe Biden speaks at Dakota County Technical College, in Rosemount, Minn., Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Swift selling local media assets to Ogden Newspapers
Michigan drops oil pipeline suit, refocuses on separate case
FILE - This photo shot from a television screen provided by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy in June 2020, shows damage to anchor support EP-17-1 on the east leg of the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline within the Straits of Mackinac in Mich. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer abandoned a lawsuit Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021, aimed at shutting down an oil pipeline that runs through part of the Great Lakes but said the state would continue pursuing a separate case with the same goal. (Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy via AP, File)

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Germany's designated chancellor backs COVID vaccine mandate
A sign in the pedestrian zone indicates that masks are mandatory in Cologne, Germany Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021. In North Rhine-Westphalia, protective measures are to be tightened this week in view of the intensified Corona situation. (Oliver Berg/dpa via AP)
Sports bettors dream: 86 able to bet on game after it ended
FILE - Manchester United's Marcus Rashford, top, scores his side's second goal during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester United and Liverpool at the Old Trafford Stadium in Manchester, England, Thursday, May 13, 2021. New Jersey gambling regulators have fined two sports betting companies for mistakenly allowing 86 gamblers from New Jersey to place bets on whether Rashford would score a goal in the game after the game had already ended and Rashford had in fact scored. (Michael Regan/Pool Photo via AP, File)
Biden tries to reassure on COVID as he sells spending plan
President Joe Biden speaks at Dakota County Technical College, in Rosemount, Minn., Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Swift selling local media assets to Ogden Newspapers
Michigan drops oil pipeline suit, refocuses on separate case
FILE - This photo shot from a television screen provided by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy in June 2020, shows damage to anchor support EP-17-1 on the east leg of the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline within the Straits of Mackinac in Mich. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer abandoned a lawsuit Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021, aimed at shutting down an oil pipeline that runs through part of the Great Lakes but said the state would continue pursuing a separate case with the same goal. (Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy via AP, File)
FDA health panel endorses Merck COVID-19 pill, paving way for U.S. authorization of the first at-home drug for virus

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