The latest senior staffer tapped by president-elect Joe Biden (D.) has defended Palestinian suicide bombings as "the last resort of a desperate people."

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On Friday night, September 18, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell learned that liberal Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died of cancer at the age of 87. And according to PBS' "Frontline," McConnell contacted President Donald Trump that very night and made it clear he wanted to see Judge Amy Coney Barrett nominated for the seat and confirmed by the U.S. Senate as quickly as possible.

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President-elect Joe Biden said Tuesday that transition staffers have been in touch with Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert and a member of the White House’s coronavirus task force.

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A Texas couple came up with a clever and safe way to be with their grandchildren over the holidays after canceling their traditional, in-person celebrations because of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Couple sends life-sized cardboard cutouts to grandkids after coronavirus canceled holiday plans

LONDON — The World Health Organization says the coronavirus pandemic has “slowed down” in the past week although death rates continued to rise, with more than 67,000 new deaths reported.The U.N. health agency said in its latest epidemiological update Wednesday that even though there was a “downward trend” in the number of cases in Europe, the region still has the biggest proportion of new cases and deaths globally.

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The Latest: WHO says virus cases in Europe are slowing down

By Kate Kelland LONDON - The COVID-19-causing coronavirus is mutating as it spreads around the world in the pandemic, but none of the mutations currently documented appears to be making it able to spread more rapidly, scientists said on Wednesday. In a study using a global dataset of virus genomes from 46,723 people with COVID-19 from 99 countries, researchers identified more than

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Mutations not making coronavirus able to spread more rapidly

By Tsvetelia Tsolova SOFIA - Bulgaria said on Wednesday it would close schools, restaurants, shopping malls and gyms until Dec. 21 as it struggles to contain a surge in new coronavirus infections. The restrictions, which will start late on Friday, are aimed at preventing a strained health system from being overwhelmed and at halting the spread of infections in the Balkan country of 7

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Bulgaria imposes lockdown as COVID-19 cases surge

A car crashed into the gates of the office of German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday.

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President Donald Trump on Tuesday promoted a tweet from actor Randy Quaid in which he demanded a full re-vote of the 2020 presidential election. In the tweet, Quaid falsely claimed that Trump had been cheated out of the election due to the use of mail-in ballots, and he demanded that the election be completely redone. […]

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President Donald Trump insisted Tuesday that he is not giving up his fight to overturn the election results, but across the federal government, preparations were beginning in earnest to support President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming administration.

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President-elect Joe Biden said outreach from the Trump administration has been “sincere,” since the General Services Administration ascertained his win on Monday. 

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Biden says Trump administration outreach on transition has been 'sincere'

A number of Democrats have been very vocal since the election calling for investigations into President Donald Trump and his allies once President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in.



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Biden Responds to Democratic Calls to Investigate Trump: I Won’t Do What He Does and Pressure the DOJ

“President-elect Joe Biden is strongly considering Mike Morell, the former acting director of the Central Intelligence Agency, to run the CIA,” the Daily Beast reports.



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