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U.S. women's soccer team settles part of gender discrimination suit
Megan Rapinoe (center) and Alex Morgan (right), pictured celebrating with U.S. women's soccer teammates in New York after a ticker tape parade, on July 10, 2019. "We are pleased that the USW...
Dec 01, 2020
Millions face bitter winter if Congress fails to extend relief programs
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) speaks alongside a bipartisan group of Democratic and Republican members of Congress as they announce a proposal for a $908 billion COVID-19 relief bill on Capitol Hill Tuesda...
Dec 01, 2020
A year in 60 secs: TikTok lists top videos, creators of 2020
From skateboarding to Fleetwood Mac to learning Cardi B's rump-shaking choreography, TikTok users got creative in a pandemic year with new songs, dances and memes in 60 seconds or less.The social...
Dec 01, 2020
UN: Warmer world in 2020 busted weather records, hurt people
An overheating world obliterated weather records in 2020, creating an extreme year for hurricanes, wildfires, heat waves, floods, droughts and ice melt, the United Nations' weather agency reporte...
Dec 01, 2020
A COVID-19 vaccine has come quick, but expert says that's no reason to fear it
A flu vaccine is administered at a walk-up COVID-19 testing sit in San Fernando, Calif. A COVID-19 vaccine could soon win emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration.Robyn Beck |...
Dec 01, 2020
Student reading gains are steady, while math slows down
A student raises his hand while attending an online class from home in Miami on Sept. 3.Eva Marie Uzcategui | Bloomberg via Getty ImagesA sweeping new review of national test data suggests the pandemi...
Dec 01, 2020
Minneapolis mayor calls proposed police cuts 'irresponsible'
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and police chief Medaria Arradondo said Monday they oppose a budget proposal that would shift nearly $8 million from the police department's 2021 budget.Late last wee...
Dec 01, 2020
Bipartisan group pushes $908B COVID-19 plan, but McConnell crafts bill Trump will sign
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., helped craft the bipartisan proposal.Toni Sandys | Pool, The Washington Post via APUpdated: 5:15 p.m. ETJust hours after a bipartisan group of House and Senate lawmakers rev...
Dec 01, 2020
Fired official says correcting Trump's fraud claims the 'right thing to do'
Christopher Krebs, recently ousted as director of the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, is sworn in to testify last year on Capitol Hill.Carolyn ...
Dec 01, 2020
In International Falls, a rejection of backyard chickens
It was a contentious election season in 2020, but in the far northern Minnesota border city of International Falls, the political arguments this fall weren't about the presidential race. They were abo...
Dec 01, 2020