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...
DECEMBER 1, 2020
Brad Parscale - Former Trump Campaign Manager. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
Donald Trump’s former campaign manager said that the president erred in not showing more empathy about the coronavirus pandemic, costing him crucial support among suburban families in swing states like Pennsylvania and Georgia.
“I think if he would have been publicly empathetic, he would have won by a landslide,”...
DECEMBER 1, 2020
A pardon for Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump’s lawyer, is certain to prompt accusations that Mr. Trump has used his power to obstruct investigations and insulate himself and his allies. - Erin Schaff/NY Times
President Trump has discussed with advisers whether to grant pre-emptive pardons to his children, to his son-in-law and to his personal lawyer Rudolph W....
DECEMBER 1, 2020
A Georgia election official on Tuesday condemned threats of physical violence and intimidation against election workers and officials, pleading with President Donald Trump to denounce the threats and urging both of the state's Republican senators to intervene.
"It's all gone too far," said Gabriel Sterling, the voting systems implementation manager for the Georgia secretary of state's office, during...
