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...
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...
Biden expected to tap Tony Blinken as secretary of state
President-elect Joe Biden is expected to announce Tony Blinken, a longtime diplomat and a member of Mr. Biden’s inner circle, as his secretary of state, multiple people familiar with the decision confirmed to CBS News. Mr. Biden is expected to make the announcement on Tuesday....
Two dead in stabbing at northern California church
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Two people died in a stabbing Sunday night at a church in California, and multiple other people are “seriously wounded,” San Jose police and Mayor Sam Liccardo said. “Our hearts go out to the families of the two community members who...
Joe Biden reprimands reporter while dodging ‘completely valid’ question on schools closing
Joe Biden gathered with his running mate Kamala Harris, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) on Friday. However, Biden had no patience for a reporter, who asked a timely question, and he quickly admonished the correspondent. POLL: Who is...
Trump Team Making False Argument About His 2016 Transition
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s not just President-elect Joe Biden’s transition that’s under a microscope. President Donald Trump and his allies are harking back to his own transition four years ago to make a false argument that his own presidency was denied a fair chance for...
Biden Expected to Nominate Blinken as Secretary of State
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden is expected to nominate Antony Blinken as secretary of state, according to multiple people familiar with the Biden team’s planning. Blinken, 58, served as deputy secretary of state and deputy national security adviser during the Obama administration and has...
Biden’s margin of victory widens as Trump’s subversion efforts grow more frantic
Overturning elections sounds like the stuff of secret deals in smoke-filled rooms, but President Donald Trump’s not even trying to hide his effort to subvert the results of the election as President-elect Joe Biden’s margin widens to more than 6 million votes. Trump’s efforts to...
Patriarch dies from Covid after leading open-casket funeral of bishop killed by virus
The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Irinej, died in a Belgrade hospital on Friday after contracting coronavirus, according to a statement from the church. Irinej, who was 90, led an open-casket funeral service for the church’s top cleric in Montenegro, Metropolitan Amfilohije Radović,...
U.S. surpasses 12 million cases of Covid-19
The United States topped 12 million cases of Covid-19 on Saturday, as the third wave’s uncontrolled spread prompted the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to urge Americans not to travel for Thanksgiving. The country recorded more than 200,000 coronavirus cases over the last 24...
Conservative News Site Warns Trump: ‘Concede And Move On’
the Washington Examiner urged President Donald Trump to “move on” and accept defeat in the 2020 election in an editorial published Friday. The conservative news outlet warned that Trump’s ongoing attempts to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory could jeopardize the GOP candidates running for Georgia’s...
Trump team requests recount of Georgia vote
USA TODAY’S coverage of the 2020 election continues this week as states prepare to finish certifying their vote counts after President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the hard-fought presidential race. President Donald Trump has yet to concede the race as Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris...
Ben Carson says he is ‘out of the woods’ after being ‘desperately ill’ from COVID
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, who tested positive for COVID-19 earlier this month, was “extremely sick” and “desperately ill,” according to a post on his Facebook page Friday morning. “Thank you everyone for your support and prayers as Candy and I battled COVID-19....
