DECEMBER 11, 2020
The US Capitol is seen in Washington, DC on December 7, 2020. - MANDEL NGAN, AFP via Getty Images
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Senate unanimously passed a stopgap funding measure Friday to avoid a government shutdown for one week while lawmakers work to close a deal on government funding.
The bill, which keeps the government open at current funding...
DECEMBER 10, 2020
2020 Person of the Year - President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. - TIME/Painting By Jason Seiler
Time magazine has named Joe Biden and Kamala Harris 2020's Person of the Year.
The two made history on November 7 when they beat Donald Trump in a bitter election that put him in a small club of presidents who...
DECEMBER 10, 2020
Barr knew about federal probes into Hunter Biden's financial dealings in spring: - WSJ / Greg Nash
Attorney General William Barr was aware of federal investigations into President-elect Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden before the presidential election, and took pains to ensure they were not made public, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
A person familiar with the...
DECEMBER 10, 2020
Rudolph W. Giuliani, a lawyer for President Trump, stands next to a map during a news conference about lawsuits related to the presidential election results at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington on Thursday. - Sarah Silbiger / TWP
The GOP’s latest effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election results, like many such efforts before it, is...
DECEMBER 10, 2020
Before 2020 comes to a close, Jupiter and Saturn will be so close that they will appear to form a "double planet." The great conjunction, as the planetary alignment has come to be known, hasn't occurred in nearly 800 years.
When their orbits align every 20 years, Jupiter and Saturn get extremely close to one another. This...
DECEMBER 10, 2020
Cold, hard science powered the race that produced the first coronavirus vaccine, expected to win clearance imminently after gaining a positive vote from a Food and Drug Administration advisory committee Thursday night. The challenge next moves to more-fraught terrain — getting impatient Americans to understand that, while a vaccine is here, most will have to wait.
Hospital systems...
DECEMBER 10, 2020
Vaccinations were underway in Britain as the F.D.A.’s advisory panel met on Thursday. - Pool photo by Victoria Jones
Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine passed a critical milestone on Thursday when a panel of experts formally recommended that the Food and Drug Administration authorize the vaccine. The agency is likely to do so within days, giving health care workers...
DECEMBER 10, 2020
Mumbai: Contemporary Indian dancer Astad Deboo, known for amalgamating Indian and western dance techniques, died here on Thursday, his family said. He was 73.
He was suffering from lymphoma, a type of blood cancer that develops when white blood cells called lymphocytes grow out of control, a close family friend said.
Astad Deboo employed his training in Indian classical...
DECEMBER 10, 2020
Representational photo In the US, a Pew survey shows 60% of people will “probably” or “definitely” take the vaccine – up from 51% in September – but only 37% are willing to be among the first to take it. They are afraid of the many rumoured and real side effects. - Javier Zayas Photography/Getty
The...
DECEMBER 10, 2020
With the pandemic rendering work commute moot, corporations shifted most of their work online.
In a testimony to this, a new report highlights a sharp increase in the screen time of Android users around the world this year - up by as much as 25 percent.
An year-end report by analytics firm App Annie records the massive hike. As...
