DECEMBER 2, 2020
President Donald Trump speaks with reporters after participating in a video teleconference call with members of the military on Thanksgiving, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Clinging to notions of widespread vote rigging that his own attorney general has disputed, President Donald Trump repeated a litany of baseless assertions Wednesday...
DECEMBER 2, 2020
US President-elect Joe Biden. - Getty Images
President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday implored Americans not to travel and gather with family during the holiday season as coronavirus cases surge across the country.
"You cannot be traveling during these holidays, as much as you want to," Biden, speaking from Wilmington, Del., told a group of workers and small business owners...
DECEMBER 2, 2020
FILE - In this Wednesday, July 24, 2019, file photo, former special counsel Robert Mueller returns to the witness table following a break in his testimony before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. NBC announced Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020, that Mueller, the former special counsel who looked into Russian interference in the 2016 election,...
DECEMBER 2, 2020
Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx listens as US President Donald Trump speaks during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC on April 20, 2020. - (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
The White House coronavirus task force issued extremely dire...
DECEMBER 2, 2020
Physician Jacob Keeperman, the medical director of Renown Regional Medical Center's covid-19 alternative care site, said he tweeted the selfie he took the day the site opened to thank his staff for their work during the pandemic. - Jacob Keeperman/Jacob Keeperman
When five patients died of the coronavirus in a 32-hour span at Renown Regional Medical Center, Jacob...
DECEMBER 2, 2020
JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI. — Strapped for cash and facing a sharp rise in homicides, city leaders here are expanding police surveillance powers to allow residents and business owners to send live feeds from many types of security cameras — including popular doorbell cameras — directly to the city’s real-time command center.
The new use of this livestreaming technology by...
DECEMBER 2, 2020
A technician working in a lab at Sinovac Biotech where the company is producing their potential COVID-19 vaccine CoronaVac, pictured on September 24 in Beijing, China. Interpol has issued a global alert warning its 194 member countries to “prepare for organized crime networks targeting COVID-19 vaccines." - Getty Images
Interpol issued a global alert on Wednesday,...
DECEMBER 2, 2020
Following months of litigation between the Small Business Administration and news organizations seeking data about who benefited from pandemic relief programs, the agency on Tuesday night released a sweeping dataset of every small business that received a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) or Economic Injury Disaster (EIDL) loan.
The data reveals the most complete accounting to date of the...
DECEMBER 2, 2020
Blood samples from patients with Covid-19 in a lab in Brooklyn earlier this year. - Misha Friedman/NY Times
The coronavirus may have infected a small number of people in the United States as early as Dec. 13, more than a month earlier than researchers had thought, according to scientists who analyzed blood samples taken from American Red...
DECEMBER 1, 2020
Workers sort and stack ballots in preparation for scanning during a recount Nov. 24 in Lithonia, Ga. (Ben Gray/AP)
In broad strokes, the theory goes something like this.
Voting machines provided to counties by Dominion Voting Systems allowed a national conspiracy involving both Democrats and Republicans to flip votes cast for President Trump to ones for President-elect Joe...
