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After the Bears complete their GM and coach search, Phillips, who has been in his role for 23 years, is shifting his responsibilities to turn much of his attention to running the Arlington project. The next GM will report to McCaskey instead of Phillips, to whom former GM Ryan Pace reported.

As it has with staffing at hospitals, schools and offices, the omicron variant has taken a toll on food production lines. Sean Connolly, the president and CEO of Conagra Brands, which makes Birds Eye frozen vegetables, Slim Jim meat snacks and other products, told investors last week that supplies from the company’s U.S. plants will be constrained for at least the next month due to omicron-related absences.

A shopper walks past partially empty frozen food coolers at a grocery in Cranberry Township, Pa., on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022. Shortages at U.S. grocery stores have grown in recent weeks as new problems — like the fast-spreading omicron variant and severe weather — have piled on to the supply chain struggles and labor shortages that have plagued retailers since the coronavirus pandemic began. (Gene J. Puskar/AP)

Founded in 1879, the Art Institute of Chicago is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the U.S., with a collection of nearly 300,000 works of art, including such famous paintings as “American Gothic” by Grant Wood, “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte” by Georges Seurat and “Nighthawks” by Edward Hopper.

This Nov. 23, 2020 file photo shows the New York Stock Exchange in New York. Stocks are off to another weak start Tuesday as traders try to calibrate how markets and the economy will handle the higher interest rates that are likely on the way from the Federal Reserve this year. (Seth Wenig/AP)

The World Bank building in Washington on April 5, 2021. The World Bank is downgrading its outlook for the global economy. It blames continuing outbreaks of COVID-19, a reduction in government economic support and ongoing bottlenecks in global supply chains. The 189-country, anti-poverty agency forecasts worldwide economic growth of 4.1% this year. That’s down from the 4.3% growth it was forecasting last June. In its Global Economic Prospects report out Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022 the World Bank projects that the U.S. economy will grow 3.7% this year, down from 5.6% in 2021. (Andrew Harnik/AP)

The revelation, which came in a memo to staff from the airline’s CEO, Scott Kirby, helps explain why U.S. airlines have had to cancel more than more than 27,000 flights, or about 8% of all scheduled trips, over two weeks starting the day before Christmas, according to FlightAware, a data tracking service. Employees calling in sick and storms that delivered strong winds, rains and in some cases record snowfall at airports nationwide wreaked havoc on United and other companies and stranded many travelers.

Liisa Luick near her home in Everett, Wash., on Friday, Jan. 7, 2022. Luick, a sales associate at Macy’s in Lynnwood, Wash., is often unable to take breaks and has fielded complaints from customers about a lack of sales help and unstaffed registers. (Grant Hindsley/The New York Times)

A Bank of America ATM is seen, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, in Winchester, Mass. Bank of America is slashing the amount it charges customers when they spend more than they have in their accounts and plans to eliminate entirely its fees for bounced checks. The Charlotte-based bank will cut the fee it charges customers to overdraft to $10 from $35 starting in May 2022. (Elise Amendola/AP)

Under the new policy, first detailed to the AP, Americans will be able to either purchase home testing kits for free under their insurance or submit receipts for the tests for reimbursement, up to the monthly per-person limit. A family of four, for instance, could be reimbursed for up to 32 tests per month. PCR tests and rapid tests ordered or administered by a health provider will continue to be fully covered by insurance with no limit.