DECEMBER 21, 2020
President Donald Trump in Arlington, Virginia, on November 3. SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images
Bruce Bartman, a 70-year-old from Delaware County, Pennsylvania, has been charged with voter fraud.
He pretended to be his dead mom to vote for President Donald Trump in the 2020 election and registered his dead mother-in-law to vote, prosecutors said.
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DECEMBER 21, 2020
Attorney General William Barr speaks during a news conference, Dec. 21, 2020 at the Justice Department in Washington, D.C. - Michael Reynolds/Pool via AP
Attorney General William Barr said Monday he has seen no reason for a special counsel to investigate possible fraud in the November election, contradicting an idea proposed by President Donald Trump.
Barr, who is set...
DECEMBER 21, 2020
FOLKESTONE, England — A line of trucks stretched for miles back from the entrance to the Channel tunnel here Monday, as the U.K. braced for potential food shortages and manufacturers worried over more disruptions if France continued a ban on freight and passenger traffic from Britain to stop the spread of a new strain of the coronavirus.
The...
DECEMBER 20, 2020
Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, a Democrat from New York, wears a protective mask and talks on mobile device while walking through the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020. Congressional leaders have arrived at a roughly $900 billion deal to help the U.S. economy weather the coronavirus pandemic. - Ting Shen/Bloomberg...
DECEMBER 20, 2020
FILE Sen. Mark Warner makes remarks after being presented the National Park Foundations Hero award during a ceremony at the Thomas Jefferson Memorial on Monday Dec 7, 2020. - CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images
As United States officials continue to assess the impact of a widespread cyber hack of several federal agencies and large private companies, the top...
DECEMBER 19, 2020
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blamed Russia for the SolarWinds hack that compromised numerous federal agencies and U.S. corporations, while President Trump said he was skeptical of a growing consensus in Washington about the country’s role.
“This was a very significant effort, and I think it’s the case that now we can say pretty clearly that it was...
DECEMBER 19, 2020
President-elect Joe Biden announces his climate and energy team nominees and appointees at The Queen Theater in Wilmington Del., Saturday, Dec. 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
WILMINGTON, DELAWARE — Just as the United States has needed a unified, national response to COVID-19, it needs one for dealing with climate change, President-elect Joe Biden said Saturday as he rolled...
DECEMBER 19, 2020
A man walks past a mural of frontline workers after the government eased a nationwide coronavirus lockdown in New Delhi on July 14. - SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP/AFP via Getty Images
With a Covid-19 caseload that's surpassed 10 million people, India is the world's second worst-hit country by the coronavirus pandemic, trailing only the United States.
But it is aiming...
DECEMBER 18, 2020
President Donald Trump's name appears on a stimulus check on May 3, 2020. - Will Lanzoni/CNN
A second round of stimulus payments may be part of a coronavirus relief package under negotiation by Congress.
Lawmakers are still working on a deal, which could include $600 checks, but experts say it will take at least two weeks for the Treasury...
DECEMBER 17, 2020
One of the potential changes is putting an end to self-preferencing.
Companies like Apple and Google will also have to allow users to uninstall apps that have originally come with their devices.
Failure to comply could result in fines as high as 10% of the companies’ annual turnover worldwide.
The remedies could ultimately include forcing companies...
