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Dec 18, 2020 - Health

Teachers brace for tense, stressful 2021

Illustration of a teacher carrying a giant apple on their back.
Dec 18, 2020 - Podcasts

Nicholas Kristof on his Pornhub article and its aftermath

U.S. charges China-based Zoom employee for disrupting Tiananmen commemoration event

Tiananmen Square video

Scoop: Pentagon halts Biden transition briefings

Christopher Miller
Dec 18, 2020 - Politics & Policy

Biden to publicly receive COVID-19 vaccine on Monday

Joe Biden

Scoop: Democrats try to tuck Pentagon waiver into spending bill

U.S. Army (retired) General Lloyd Austin speaks after being formally nominated to be Secretary of the Department of Defense
Dec 18, 2020 - Technology

SolarWinds denies insider trading activity ahead of hack revelation

Illustration of arrow cursor cutting a computer

Supreme Court punts on challenge to Trump's congressional apportionment plan

Supreme Court building

Scoop: Trump pardons expected today

Donald Trump walking outside making a triumphant fist

What to make of the last members of Biden's historic energy team

Green chairs around a world table
Dec 18, 2020 - Health

Vice President Pence receives COVID-19 vaccine live on television

Dec 18, 2020 - Economy

Unemployment surges as pandemic programs near expiration

Dec 18, 2020 - Health

Governors complain of COVID-19 vaccine cutback

Screenshot of "The Rachel Maddow Show" showing several headlines about the coronavirus vaccine in different states
Dec 18, 2020 - Technology

Cyberhack looks like act of war

U.S. folder being accessed

How to judge America’s climate-change responsibility

Illustration of a man standing in a giant shoe print.
Dec 18, 2020 - Economy

Even with vaccine, COVID tests will be the passport to travel in 2021

Illustration of an open passport with a covid-19 virus travel stamp

Ranking the 5 big suits against Google and Facebook

Illustration of a gavel cracking 0’s and 1’s binary

College students wrap up a stress-filled COVID fall semester

Illustration of young seated woman with her head in her hands and a scribble bubble above her head

Nearly 1 in 200 Americans was diagnosed with COVID in the last week

Trump's judicial legacy will block Biden's

Scoop: Ben Carson makes plans for his post-Trump life

Ben Carson

Democrats fret about Garland for attorney general

Judge Merrick Garland.

Scoop: Biden privately pushes first big deal

Photo illustration of Biden in a construction hat.

Microsoft president: Cyberattack "provides a moment of reckoning"

Microsoft President Brad Smith in the White House in May 2020.
Updated Dec 17, 2020 - Health

States say federal government cutting COVID-19 vaccine allocations

A sign announcing the beginning of immunizations against COVID-19 at the Pittsburgh VA Medical Center on December 17, 2020 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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