• The Supreme Court is continuing to let stand a Texas law that outlaws abortions after six weeks, but says that abortion clinics may sue. The decision is likely to create another round-robin in which the federal judge that already blocked the law will do so again, and the Fifth Circuit will again let it stand. [Associated Press]
• Santa Clara County has recorded its first case of the Omicron variant. It was found in a fully vaccinated but not boosted individual. [KRON4]
• Oakland just recorded its 130th homicide — and it was allegedly a 15-year-old who fatally stabbed his father with a kitchen knife. The son was reportedly trying to defend an older relative who was shoved by the father, and this all happened inside a home on Golf Links Road. [Bay Area News Group]
• The SFPD says crime is down in Union Square ever since it beefed up patrols two weeks ago. [NBC Bay Area]
• Another test has led to Millennium Tower tilting another quarter inch this month. [NBC Bay Area]
• Peloton is apparently upset that Mr. Big dies on his Peloton bike in the new Sex and the City reboot. [Nexstar]
• Pantone has chosen its zeitgeist shade for 2022, and it's periwinkle. [CNN]

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