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Posted on: Friday, December 4, 2020 - 2:00am
WASHINGTON — Joe Biden said Thursday that he will ask Americans to commit to 100 days of wearing masks as one of his first acts as president, stopping just short of the nationwide mandate... READ MORE »

Posted on: Friday, December 4, 2020 - 12:23am
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Powerful gusts pushed flames from a wildfire through Southern California canyons on Thursday, one of several blazes that burned near homes and forced residents to flee... READ MORE »

Posted on: Thursday, December 3, 2020 - 5:44am
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A mysterious object temporarily orbiting Earth is a 54-year-old rocket, not an asteroid after all, astronomers confirmed Wednesday. Observations by a telescope... READ MORE »

Posted on: Thursday, December 3, 2020 - 5:24am
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden swung behind a bipartisan COVID-19 relief effort Wednesday and his top Capitol Hill allies cut their demands for a $2 trillion-plus measure by... READ MORE »

Posted on: Thursday, December 3, 2020 - 5:21am
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — U.S. hospitals slammed with COVID-19 patients are trying to lure nurses and doctors out of retirement, recruiting students and new graduates who have yet to earn their... READ MORE »

Posted on: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 - 5:38am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Disputing President Donald Trump’s persistent, baseless claims, Attorney General William Barr declared the U.S. Justice Department has uncovered no evidence of widespread... READ MORE »

Posted on: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 - 5:36am
BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese spacecraft took samples of the moon's surface Wednesday as part of a mission to bring lunar rocks back to Earth for the first time since the 1970s, the government... READ MORE »

Posted on: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 - 5:33am
British officials authorized a COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use on Wednesday, greenlighting the world’s first shot against the virus that’s backed by rigorous science and taking a major... READ MORE »

Posted on: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 - 5:21am
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — With unemployment still high and the pandemic threatening yet another economic slump, President-elect Joe Biden is assembling a team of liberal advisers who have... READ MORE »

Posted on: Tuesday, December 1, 2020 - 5:19am
A disproportionately large number of poor and minority students were not in schools for assessments this fall, complicating efforts to measure the pandemic’s effects on some of the most... READ MORE »

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