The FDA cleared a second COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use as cases and deaths soared across the U.S. Plus, Congress passed a stopgap bill to fund the government for two days as coronavirus relief talks dragged on, and the Electoral College affirmed President-elect Joe Biden's victory. Read up on these and more of the week’s top headlines.
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CNN — The US Food and Drug Administration on Friday night authorized a second coronavirus vaccine for emergency use as Covid-19 hospitalizations rose to another record and cases and deaths are piling up in unprecedented ways. The FDA had signaled it would issue the authorization quickly for Moderna’s …
Congress passed a days-long stopgap bill on Friday, hours before the government was scheduled to shutdown. The legislation, which passed the Senate in …
Democratic electors cast their votes without incident in states where Trump has contested the results, like Pennsylvania and Georgia. The Electoral College officially voted on Monday to make Joe Biden the 46th president of the United States, formalizing his victory under constitutional procedure and …
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits rose again last week to 885,000, the highest weekly total since September, as a resurgence of coronavirus cases threatens the economy’s recovery from its springtime collapse. The Labor Department said Thursday that the …
At least six government departments breached in likely Russian intelligence operation thought to have begun in March The US government is still in the dark over how deeply Russian hackers penetrated its networks during the worst ever cyber-attack on federal agencies, members of Congress warned on …
President-elect Joe Biden will nominate Rep. Deb Haaland to be secretary of the Interior. If confirmed, she will be the first Native American to serve in that position. The Department of the Interior is home to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Haaland, 59, D-N.M., is an enrolled citizen of the Pueblo …
CNN — Joe Biden will nominate Pete Buttigieg to be his transportation secretary, the president-elect said in a statement on Tuesday, elevating the former South Bend, Indiana, mayor and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate to a top post in the federal government. Buttigieg would be the first …
London CNN — Rich countries have bought enough Covid-19 vaccine doses to immunize their populations three times over, an international vaccine watchdog has said, but developing countries are being left behind in the global sprint to end the coronavirus pandemic. In 67 poorer nations, just one in 10 …
More than 300 schoolboys have been reunited with their families, a week after they were kidnapped from their school in north-west Nigeria. The boys arrived by bus in Katsina, capital of the state of the same name, where they were met by President Muhammadu Buhari. Looking weary, some were still …
Google now faces several antitrust challenges around the world, including three government lawsuits filed in the U.S. in the last two months …
