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Container ship Ever Far, left, sails down river past the Georgia Ports Authority’s Port of Savannah, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021, in Savannah, Ga. A World Trade Organization arbitrator has decided that China can impose retaliatory tariffs on imports from the United States totaling up to $645 million a year, capping a decade-long dispute over U.S. duties on some Chinese goods. The dollar-value award issued Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022, follows a decision in July 2019 from the WTO’s dispute resolution process, which the United States has since gummed up by refusing to allow for new judges to be appointed to its body that acts as a sort of appeals court. (Stephen B. Morton/AP)

The developer is seeking to rezone 14 parcels formerly known as Lake Sandy Jo from residential to a planned unit development in the 3600 block of West 25th Avenue in Gary in order to construct a light industrial complex similar to the Ameriplex development in Merrillville. (Michelle L. Quinn / Post-Tribune)

Also this month, Ohio Turnpike and Infrastructure Commission placed the eight names of its Name-A-Snowplow contest winners directly on its vehicles, according to the Akron Beacon Journal. The monikers are mostly puns on “Star Wars” characters” and ’90s hip-hop acts and songs, including Snowbi-wan Kenobi, Darth Blader, Sir Plows-A-Lot and Ah, Push It … Push It Real Good!

This virus is not going away, but the pandemic will shift into endemic status, and the virus causing COVID-19 will become one of many viruses that sweep through the Earth’s human and animal population, mutate, and sweep through again. Vaccinations, and medications and remedies treating symptoms will help people to cope with having the virus.

Chicago police block off the intersection in the 200 block of East Lower Wacker Drive while investigating a shooting on Jan. 26, 2022. A 25-year-old man was in critical condition Wednesday night after police and people in the car the man was in exchanged gunfire, officials said. (Chris Sweda / Chicago Tribune)