“I don’t vet the information on this program that I give out.” -- Sean Hannity
“Quit using socialism to frankly cover your racism.” — Rex Chapman
Deaths
US: 274,332 (+1260)
World: 1,473,822 (+8727)
Cases
US: 13,919,870 (+169,466)
World: 63,587,843 (+517,564)
Countdown 1: 36 days.
Countdown 2: 51 days.
U.S. reported more COVID-19 cases in November than most countries had all year. -- That is representative of our federal government.
'Urgent actions' needed in US government response to pandemic, watchdog says. States and US territories are concerned about ongoing shortages of some Covid-19 testing materials and medical supplies, including rapid point-of-care tests and reagents needed for testing and nitrile gloves, an October GAO survey found. About one-third of states that responded said they were "greatly" or "completely" concerned about having enough vaccine-related supplies to administer a potential Covid-19 vaccine, and another 21 states said they were "moderately concerned."
Los Angeles County -- the biggest county in the US -- is now under a stay-at-home order.
Two coronavirus vaccines available in U.S. in coming weeks: U.S. health secretary.
Covid-19: Moderna submits vaccine for FDA regulatory approval. Recent vaccine developments have been met with optimism among scientists and stock markets, but experts also urge caution until more data is released.
Who will get the coronavirus vaccine first? Governors will determine who gets priority, health secretary says.
Covid-19 vaccines face a varied and powerful misinformation movement online. New research shows the bigger threat to public trust in a Covid-19 vaccine comes from smaller, better-connected Facebook groups.
Articles of impeachment filed against GOP Ohio governor over coronavirus orders. The group of state Republican lawmakers argues that DeWine violated Ohioans' civil liberties by issuing a stay-at-home order and requiring them to wear masks. They have argued that the face covering rule "promotes fear, turns neighbors against neighbors, and contracts the economy by making people fearful to leave their homes."
Covid-19 infections have dropped by "roughly" 30% in England during the second national lockdown, new research suggests.
Scott Atlas resigns as coronavirus adviser to Trump. — Good. He caused a lot of damage during his short tenure.
Pentagon shake-up continues as another top official departs. The top official leading the Pentagon's Defeat-ISIS Task Force resigned Monday, becoming the latest senior official to be fired or asked to resign in recent days, part of a White House-directed post-election purge that saw some of the senior-most Defense Department civilians ousted in a matter of days.
Georgia Republican officials reject Trump's calls to overturn election results.
'Firehose of falsehood:' How Trump is trying to confuse the public about the election outcome. On Sunday's "Reliable Sources," Jonathan Rauch placed Trump's recent statements in the context of information warfare. Trump is running a "classic Russian-style disinfo campaign," known as the "firehose of falsehood," which is when you "push out as many different stories and conspiracy theories and lies and half-truths as you possibly can," Rauch said. "The goal here is to confuse people, and he's doing very well at that. This is a classic propaganda tactic." Craig Mazin, the creator of HBO's "Chernobyl," reacted to my segment with Rauch by reprising one of the most memorable lines from his series: "The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all."
‘Mercenary’ donor sold access for millions in foreign money. As an elite political fundraiser, Imaad Zuberi had the ear of top Democrats and Republicans alike — a reach that included private meetings with then-Vice President Joe Biden and VIP access at Donald Trump’s inauguration...But federal prosecutors say Zuberi’s life was built on a series of lies and the lucrative enterprise of funding American political campaigns and profiting from the resulting influence.
It’s easy to assume pawnshops are doing great in the pandemic. It’s also wrong. It’s not just about the guns and gold: Loans are at the core of the pawn business.
Canada plans digital tax in 2022 on global tech giants such as Facebook, Google.
Alligators can regrow their tails, new study finds. Researchers were surprised to discover that juvenile alligators also have the ability to regrow their tails up to 9 inches, or up to 18% of their total body length, according to a new study in Scientific Reports.
‘Sistine Chapel of the ancients' rock art discovered in remote Amazon forest. Hailed as “the Sistine Chapel of the ancients”, archaeologists have found tens of thousands of paintings of animals and humans created up to 12,500 years ago across cliff faces that stretch across nearly eight miles in Colombia. Their date is based partly on their depictions of now-extinct ice age animals, such as the mastodon, a prehistoric relative of the elephant that hasn’t roamed South America for at least 12,000 years. There are also images of the palaeolama, an extinct camelid, as well as giant sloths and ice age horses.
A metal monolith appeared at a scenic spot in northern Romania over the weekend after a similar structure was discovered – and then disappeared – in the Utah desert.
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