Democrats uneasy about granting rarely invoked waiver for Biden’s Pentagon pick
Senate Democrats are uneasy about granting a rarely invoked waiver that would allow President-elect Joe Biden’s pick of retired Gen. Lloyd Austin to head the Defense Department, the first nominee to encounter resistance from senators in the incoming President’s own party. A number of top...
How Operation Warp Speed plans to distribute COVID-19 vaccine
Five percent of all produced COVID-19 vaccine will be held back for emergencies and states will have the option of trading vials within the government’s ordering system to get the kind they want. Those are just a few of the details we’re learning about how...
Biden unveils COVID strategy – and it involves a mask mandate
President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday announced a three-part plan to combat the coronavirus pandemic in the first 100 days of his administration. Biden, speaking in his hometown of Wilmington, Del., as he formally unveiled his team of top health officials, emphasized “masking, vaccinations, opening schools....
Trump calls on Supreme Court to ‘have the courage’ to overturn Biden’s election victory
President Trump brought his futile bid to subvert the 2020 election to a new low Tuesday, calling on the U.S. Supreme Court and legislatures in a handful of battleground states to “have the courage” to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. Speaking at a White House...
Less than 20% of NYC hospital beds empty amid second COVID-19 surge
The number of available hospital beds are dwindling as a second surge of the coronavirus grips the New York City region, new state data reveals. The percentage of beds available in both New York City and Long Island is under 20 percent, according to the...
Sanders: Bipartisan COVID-19 relief deal ‘not acceptable’
Many lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have expressed optimism and support for the emerging deal. Moderate Senators admitted the proposal outlined would upset partisans on both sides, but is a necessary compromise as the country faces rising COVID-19 case counts and economic pain....
ICE Is Trying To Force BuzzFeed News To Divulge Its Sources
Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigators issued a subpoena this week demanding BuzzFeed News identify its sources — an extraordinary attempt by the government to interfere with a news outlet acting under the protections of the First Amendment, and a move that the agency’s former chief...
Biden will urge Americans to wear face coverings, take COVID vaccine, but won’t make them mandatory
“I don’t think it should be mandatory, I wouldn’t demand it to be mandatory, but I would do everything in my power — it’s like I don’t think masks have to be made mandatory nationwide,” Biden replied. And he vowed that he’d “do everything in...
Joe Biden officially secures enough electoral votes to become president as California hands him Electoral College majority
California certified its presidential election Friday and appointed 55 electors pledged to vote for Joe Biden, officially handing him the Electoral College majority needed to win the White House. Secretary of State Alex Padilla’s formal approval of Biden’s win in the state brought his tally...
Rudy Giuliani is mocked over possible fart at hearing in Michigan
Rudy Giuliani keeps going viral for all the wrong reasons. The personal lawyer for President Trump was mocked on social media after a sound resembling flatulence squeaked in audio as he spoke at an election hearing in Michigan on Wednesday. In a video published on...
San Francisco Bay Area to begin month-long COVID-19 lockdown
Health officials in the San Francisco Bay Area have ordered lockdown for the region’s 8.5 million residents beginning Sunday night and lasting into the first week of 2021. The stay-at-home restrictions in five counties — which include San Francisco, Oakland and Silicon Valley — require...
Georgia Is Becoming Ground Zero For Election Disinformation
Amonth before Georgia voters are set to decide which party will control the U.S. Senate, online disinformation about the state’s elections is kicking into overdrive. The full force of 2020’s most effective fake news tactics is hitting the state: fears of widespread voter fraud, allegations...
Fauci, Birx voice dire post-Thanksgiving warnings on COVID surge
Top federal officials voiced dire predictions of a nationwide post-Thanksgiving surge in COVID cases on Sunday. “What we expect, unfortunately, as we go forward the next couple of weeks into December, (is) that we might see a surge superimposed upon that surge that we’re already...
US hits four million monthly Covid-19 cases as Fauci warns of holiday surge
The United States passed four million cases of the coronavirus for November on Saturday, more than double the record 1.9 million cases set in October. Now experts have warned Americans to expect that sharp rise in cases to continue, due in part to the Thanksgiving...
Not all are hailing latest NYC taxi bailout plan
A new plan to bail out New York City’s debt-ridden taxi drivers is getting support from top city and state officials — but critics say the numbers don’t add up, and claim that it threatens to wreck the market that finances yellow cabs for good....
Inside a hospital as the coronavirus surges: Where will all the patients go?
EAU CLAIRE, Wis. — As the coronavirus pandemic swelled around the 160-bed Mayo Clinic hospital, the day was dawning auspiciously. Two precious beds for new patients had opened overnight. At the morning “bed meeting,” prospects for a third looked promising. Better yet, by midmorning, there...
Trump: DOJ ‘missing in action’ on alleged election fraud
President Trump told “Sunday Morning Futures” in his first interview since Election Day that the Department of Justice is “missing in action” regarding alleged election fraud. He went on to tell host Maria Bartiromo in the exclusive interview that he has “not seen anything” from...
Joe Biden Fractures Foot While Playing With Dog, Doctor Says
President-elect Joe Biden fractured several bones in his foot on Saturday and will likely require a walking boot for several weeks, his doctor announced late Sunday. Biden sustained the injury while playing with his dog Major, his office said Sunday. “Out of an abundance of...
Kim Jong Un is cutting off his economic lifeline, China, to stave off Covid-19
Kim Jong Un appears to have kicked North Korea’s pandemic prevention plan into overdrive, further tightening the country’s nearly impassible borders, cutting off nearly all trade with China, and even allegedly executing a customs official for failing to handle imported goods appropriately. Beijing exported just...
Leaderless America slips deep into grim pandemic winter
America is sliding into a winter limbo of alarming spikes in Covid-19 cases and deepening economic pain while an apathetic lame duck White House and a deadlocked Congress provide no political leadership. The darkest holiday season in modern history beckons, yet President Donald Trump and...
The tormented genius who became one of football’s greatest players
A little bit with the head of Maradona and a little bit with the hand of God.” Those four words — “the hand of God” — describe one of the most iconic moments in football history, a goal that belongs to one of the most...
What drove Black voters to the polls in 2020
National pollster Henry Fernandez has spent the election cycle immersed in the minds of Black voters. Fernandez, a lawyer and expert with the African American Research Collaborative, or AARC, has queried people across the country about their candidate choices, motivations and policy priorities. So he...
Billionaires Grow Wealth By Over $1 Trillion Since Pandemic Began
Billionaires in the U.S. have grown their wealth by over a third — or by more than $1 trillion — since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the nation in March, a new report finds. At the same time, the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic...
Supreme Court blocks COVID-19 limits on NY houses of worship
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court placed religious freedom before pandemic precautions Wednesday night, temporarily blocking recent rules in New York that severely restricted gatherings at houses of worship in areas hit hardest by COVID-19. The court’s new, more conservative majority ruled 5-4 that Gov. Andrew...
Will the World Trust Joe Biden to Lead on Climate
Biden named former Secretary of State John Kerry to a new top position on global climate policy, a public step toward what the President-elect has promised will be a renaissance in American leadership on the issue. Activists who hope climate change will play a central...
Lucky Joe gets phone call from China President Xi Jinping: Devine
The one American who really should give thanks for his good fortune today is Joe Biden. Lucky Joe. President without trying, popped his head out of his basement a few times, took lots of naps. The Chauncey Gardiner of presidents has been touched by a...
Trump is losing Twitter followers every day after losing the election
Weeks after losing the election, President Trump is now losing Twitter followers by the day, according to Newsweek. More than 46,000 of the president’s former disciples have reportedly stopped receiving his tweets since Sunday. The president still has nearly 89 million followers, but lost 10,000...
Millions traveling for Thanksgiving despite surging Covid-19 cases
hanksgiving travel is surging as new coronavirus cases approach 200,000 a day in the United States. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued guidance on Thursday urging Americans not to travel for Thanksgiving. But millions of people are still planning to travel over...
Trump Campaign Sidelines Sidney Powell From Legal Team
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for clarification on if it has officially fired Powell, though the president, Giuliani and Ellis had previously identified her as being on the legal team. The attorney quickly made headlines after the presidential election when...
New Jersey Lawmaker Pushes To Disbar Rudy Giuliani For Deceitful, ‘Absurd’ Election Cases
New Jersey Democratic Rep. Bill Pascrell has filed a complaint with New York’s attorney disciplinary officials, calling for the disbarment of Rudy Giuliani for “fraud” and “deceit” in his actions attempting to overturn the presidential election without any justification. “Mr. Giuliani has participated in the...
