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Barr: No evidence of fraud that’d change election outcome
Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday the Justice Department has not uncovered evidence of widespread voter fraud that would change the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.His comments come...
Dec 01, 2020
Trump files lawsuit challenging Wisconsin election results
President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Wisconsin seeking to disqualify more than 221,000 ballots in the state's two most Democratic counties, a longshot attempt to overturn Joe Biden&#...
Dec 01, 2020
UnitedHealth forecast for 2021 is dinged by the coronavirus
UnitedHealth has debuted a lower-than-expected 2021 earnings forecast partly due to the unknown extent of COVID-19's impact on the health care system.The nation's largest health insurance provider sai...
Dec 01, 2020
Dr. Scott Atlas, special coronavirus adviser to Trump, resigns
White House coronavirus adviser Dr. Scott Atlas, pictured in September, made numerous political blunders during his brief tenure, including a lengthy interview with Russian state media that ran just d...
Nov 30, 2020
States with few coronavirus restrictions are spreading the virus beyond their borders
By David Armstrong, ProPublicaThis story was originally published by ProPublica.For months after Washington state imposed one of the earliest and strictest COVID-19 lockdowns in March, Jim Gilliard di...
Nov 30, 2020
Another mysterious monolith suddenly appears — this time in Romania
Cue the "X-Files" theme, folks. The monolith mystery has deepened.Less than two weeks after authorities stumbled across a mysterious metal object standing freely in the Utah desert - and just days aft...
Nov 30, 2020
Beware of COVID-19 scams as vaccine approaches FDA approval
The coronavirus vaccine inching toward approval in the U.S. is desperately anticipated by weary Americans longing for a path back to normal life. But criminals are waiting, too, ready to use that desp...
Nov 30, 2020
Moderna asking U.S., European regulators to OK its virus shots
Moderna Inc. said it would ask U.S. and European regulators Monday to allow emergency use of its COVID-19 vaccine as new study results confirm the shots offer strong protection - ramping up the race t...
Nov 30, 2020
Merriam-Webster's top word of 2020 not a shocker: Pandemic
If you were to choose a word that rose above most in 2020, which word would it be?Ding, ding, ding: Merriam-Webster on Monday announced "pandemic" as its 2020 word of the year. "That pr...
Nov 30, 2020
Congress returns with virus aid, federal funding unresolved
After months of shadowboxing amid a tense and toxic campaign, Capitol Hill's main players are returning for one final, perhaps futile, attempt at deal-making on a challenging menu of year-end bus...
Nov 30, 2020