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AREA COVID-19 TESTING SITES

University Health testing: Regular testing hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays and 8 a.m. to noon Saturdays. Testing is available at the Lakewood campus at 7900 Lee’s Summit Road, Kansas City, and the Hospital Hill site at 2211 Charlotte, Kansas City.

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Chicago synagogue, businesses vandalized over weekend

CHICAGO – A synagogue and an affiliated Jewish school in Chicago were vandalized over the weekend with swastika images and antisemitic graffiti, officials said. The incidents occurred Sunday at the FREE Synagogue and Hanna Sacks Bais Yaakov High School. Vandalism also occurred at a synagogue in Lincolnwood, WMAQ-TV reported. A Jewish group, the Concerned Citizens League, said windows were broken Saturday at a Chicago bakery and a kosher food store. Police in Chicago were investigating the incidents.

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Canadian prime minister tests positive for COVID-19

TORONTO – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday he has tested positive for COVID-19, but is “feeling fine” and will continue working remotely. The announcement came in a tweet in which he urged everyone to “please get vaccinated and get boosted.” Trudeau said on Thursday that he was going into isolation for five days after finding out the previous evening he had been in contact with someone who tested positive. He told The Canadian Press on Friday that person was one of his three children.

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Germany: 2 police officers shot dead during traffic stop

BERLIN – Two police officers were shot dead on a rural road in western Germany while on a routine patrol early Monday, police said. Two suspects were detained hours later. The shooting happened during a traffic check near Kusel at about 4:20 a.m., police in Kaiserslautern said in a statement. The officers radioed that shots were being fired, spokesman Bernhard Christian Erfort told n-tv television. But reinforcements who arrived at the scene were unable to help the 24-year-old woman and the 29-year-old man.

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