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Today’s Top Stories from NBC News WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2021 Good morning, NBC News readers.
Today we look at possible criminal charges for a former White House chief of staff, questions over a candle factory devastated by the Kentucky tornado, and some homesick zebras.
Here's the latest on that and everything else we're watching this Wednesday morning. 
Donald Trump's former chief of staff could face criminal charges after the House voted Tuesday to refer him to the Justice Department over his refusal to answer questions about the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Lawmakers passed the measure largely along party lines in a 222-208 vote.
Meadows, a former House member from North Carolina, initially provided numerous documents to the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot before deciding against further engagement, claiming executive privilege.
The investigative panel voted unanimously Monday night to advance the contempt of Congress measure, saying Meadows should face a criminal charge for defying the panel's subpoena to testify.
The Jan. 6 committee's chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said Meadows' actions left the panel with "no choice."
"This isn't about any sort of privilege or immunity. This is about Mr. Meadows refusing to comply with the subpoena to discuss the records he himself turned over,” Thompson said in floor debate Tuesday ahead of the House vote.
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Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said Tuesday that state investigators will probe the Mayfield candle factory where eight people died in a catastrophic tornado and workers said they were threatened with termination if they left their shifts early. 
As the president tries to drive his $1.75 trillion Build Back Better bill through the Senate, he has been reluctant to raise pressure on Democrats. 
The House passed legislation early Wednesday to raise the federal debt limit by $2.5 trillion, sending the bill to President Joe Biden for his signature. 
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Two zebras that escaped from a Maryland farm four months ago have returned to the property and reunited with their herd, officials said Tuesday.
The zebras, which had been roaming “at large” since August, returned to the 300-acre private farm in Upper Marlboro last week, the Prince George’s County Department of the Environment said in a news release.
The release said the farm's owner alerted federal officials about their return. A lawyer for the owner, Jerry Lee Holly, said in an email that Holly's employees captured and "humanely" returned them to the herd.
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