Emergency unemployment benefits for millions of Americans lapsed overnight with President Trump and Congress still deadlocked about how much to give …
Weekly Roundup - Dec 27, 2020
Newsworthy odds and ends that I have collected during the week.

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The camper van blast in Nashville on Christmas Day was probably a suicide bombing, law enforcement officials are quoted as saying by US media. Investigators are conducting DNA tests after human remains...
(CNN) — When Congress met to tally the results of the 2004 presidential election, then-Sen. Barbara Boxer stood alone on the Senate floor to object to President George W. Bush's reelection victory in over...
San Francisco (CNN Business) — Now that coronavirus vaccines are starting to roll out in the US and abroad, many people may be dreaming of the day when they can travel, shop and go to the movies again....
The EU has begun a co-ordinated vaccine rollout to fight Covid-19, in what the bloc's top official says is a "touching moment of unity". European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Saturday...
Speculation is growing that the AT&T building was intentionally targeted in the Nashville Christmas Day bombing as the FBI probes rumors that the …
A dog took possession of a professional football game in Potosi, Bolivia for three minutes on Thursday. The pooch ran around with a football boot in its mouth, before being escorted off the pitch by a...
Los Angeles County scientists have begun to test samples of the coronavirus from local patients to determine if a new, more contagious strain that is circulating in Britain has arrived, as some officials...
The 300,000 Americans who have died from the disease this year included actors, art directors, animators and playwrights — even an iconic movie …
Database-software giant Oracle is moving its headquarters from California, to Austin, Texas. Oracle's move is the latest in a string of tech giants fleeing the San Francisco Bay Area for the Southern including...
As shares of hotels, cruise lines, and casinos rally on hopes for vaccines, investors need to be selective. Six stocks that could go the distance.