A security official for Loudoun County Public Schools in Virginia directed principals to obtain a warrant from a magistrate if students attempted to enter the school without wearing a mask, the latest escalation in the commonwealth's mask wars.
The fight over masking Virginia’s school children will go on for at least a while longer. On Friday a judge in Virginia sided with pro-mask mandate school boards, and halted temporarily an executive order issued by new Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin that makes masks optional in schools.
Police in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) expect crowd sizes for the “Convoy to Canberra” to peak on Feb. 8 when federal parliament resumes, with protestors expected to gather outside Parliament House.