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* De Blasio institutes a private-sector vaccine mandate on City businesses and ups the minimum indoor vaccine requirement to 2 shots, with kids 5-11 needing to show at least one.
* The City Council passed a bill allowing nearly 800,000 noncitizens the right to vote in municipal elections, over de Blasio's objection.
* Governor Kathy Hochul placed an indoor mask mandate back in place, except for those places that have vaccine requirements, citing Delta and Omicron.
* Attorney General Letitia James dropped out of the Governor's race, opting instead to try and keep her job.
* The FDA approved Pfizer's booster shots for 16 and 17 year-olds. The company says its boosters are also effective against Omicron.
* Biden held a Democracy Summit to push back against autocratic nations following a warning to Putin not to invade Ukraine and then initiating a diplomatic boycott against the Beijing Olympics.
* Mark Meadows, Trump's former Chief of Staff announced his refusal to cooperate with the January 6th Committee, leading them to refer Meadows for contempt to the Justice Department, and Trump lost another attempt to keep his documents secret from Congress.
* The Senate passed the House's bill to increase the debt ceiling by a simple majority vote, as well as narrowly passing a vote to overturn Biden's private-sector vaccine mandate for businesses with more than 100 workers.
* The Supreme Court is allowing abortion providers to sue a small group of public officials in Texas against the recently-passed SB8 "abortion bounty hunter" law, but opted to keep the law in place again for the second time.
* Chris Cuomo was fired from CNN, Ghislaine Maxwell's defense is now up, Jussie Smollett has been found guilty for faking a hate crime, and former Senator Bob Dole has passed away at the age of 98.
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