NOVEMBER 16, 2020
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., listens during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020. - AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool
Georgia’s top elections official said on Monday that Sen. Lindsey Graham implicitly proposed he toss out legally mailed ballots in his state, as Republicans seek ways to sway election results in the state...
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
Jeff Bezos has pledged $10 billion to support organizations and scientists working to protect the environment. - Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg/Getty Images
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced Monday that he will give $791 million in grants as part of his Bezos Earth Fund to 16 organizations that are working to protect the environment.
The fund is part of the CEO's...
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned President Trump against a strike on Iran and described the potential risks of military escalation. - Anna Moneymaker / NY Times
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Trump asked senior advisers in an Oval Office meeting on Thursday whether he had options to take action against Iran’s main nuclear site...
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
A U.S. Army soldier climbs a hill towards an American outpost October 15, 2006 near Camp Tillman, Afghanistan just two kilometers from the Pakistan border. - Photographer: John Moore/Getty Images
Donald Trump is expected to issue a formal order drawing down U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq to 2,500 in each country by Jan. 15, a U.S. defense...
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
Marsha Jackson didn’t go to the mountain. The mountain came to her.
From her home in south Dallas, she watched it grow until it towered at 60 feet tall and spread all the way to her backyard, “a few feet from my bedroom.”
The mountain is human-made — an environmental nightmare of discarded roofing shingles stretching more than a...
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
U.S. National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien looks on during a statement to the media at the Itamaraty Palace in Brasilia. - Reuters/ADRIANO MACHADO
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. President Donald Trump's national security adviser, Robert O'Brien, said on Monday he will ensure a professional transition to the team led by Democrat Joe Biden if Biden is deemed the...
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
Georgia Elections Chief Brad Raffensperger (R). - Getty Images
Georgia's Republican secretary of state is pushing back on several false claims by President Trump about the state's recount process and election integrity.
In a series of Facebook posts, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) first addressed the president's claims that election officials were not allowing Trump campaign observers into...
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious diseases expert, once again distanced himself from a doctor advising the president on COVID-19, saying he "totally disagrees" with Scott Atlas.
Atlas, a neuroradiologist with no training in infectious diseases, has taken to Twitter in recent days to rail against closures of some businesses and high schools in Michigan in response to...
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
Moderna Inc. said its experimental coronavirus vaccine was 94.5% effective at protecting people from Covid-19 in an early look at pivotal study results, the second vaccine to hit a key milestone.
Of 95 people in the study who developed Covid-19 with symptoms so far, 90 had received a placebo and only five Moderna’s vaccine, the company said Monday....
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
Former President Barack Obama made some of his most pointed criticism of President Trump to date in an interview that aired on "60 Minutes" Sunday night, saying his successor has hastened "truth decay."
"We have gone through a presidency that disregarded a whole host of basic institutional norms-- expectations we had for a president that had been observed...
