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What was the biggest news story this past week -- either in your community, nationally, or globally?

Nationally, the conviction of Derek Chauvin in what we hope will be the trial of the new century. As I have written elsewhere, some justice was done--with the emphasis on some, since there is so much more still to be done as far as racial justice in this country. Internationally, there is the current horror going on in India, with a new surge (with a new, more deadly variant), that has people dying like flies--some expiring at the doors/gates of the overfilled hospitals. And the crematoria are going 24/7, bringing rather horrid thoughts of something else--even when cremation is thoroughly in the national cultural tradition. And only now is the U.S. moving to send oxygen, protective equipment, supplies--and the AstraZeneca vaccines that we've basically been sitting on since they're not approved for use in this country. It is a most sobering reminder of how "over" this pandemic is not in some parts of the world, and how our country helping out is not only the right thing to do, but could be necessary for our own survival.