The Year of COVID-19 will likely go down as the deadliest in the nation’s history with the coronavirus pandemic contributing strongly to a mortality tally of over 3 million people. According to […]
Annual death toll nears record
House OKs $900 billion aid bill
The U.S. House of Representatives finally passed a long-awaited $900 billion pandemic relief package Monday night. The measure, which would send cash to individuals and businesses as well as pay to vaccinate […]
Another vaccine is on its way
Vaccines were in the forefront of the news on Friday. Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen were inoculated along with Surgeon General Jerome Adams in a televised event. House Speaker […]
Stimulus bill getting closer …
A deal is reportedly near on a COVID-19 economic relief package from Congress. According to the Associated Press, the proposed bill would aid businesses, add $300 a week to unemployment benefits and […]
Biden won, GOP leaders agree
Republican leaders who resisted the idea that Joe Biden had actually won the presidential election are starting to acknowledge the former vice president’s new status as president-elect. According to the Associated Press, […]
It’s official: Biden, Harris elected
Joe Biden officially was elected 46th President of the United States as the Electoral College tallied its votes on Monday. As expected, the 78-year-old former vice president received 306 votes to incumbent […]
Court snubs election challenge
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday turned thumbs down on a lawsuit seeking to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the Nov. 3 election. It was perhaps the last of many rejections […]
Facebook sued for monopoly
Facebook, the world’s biggest and most powerful social media operation, is being sued by the federal government and 40 states alleging an illegal monopoly. The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday announced that […]
First COVID vaccination done
In what’s being called “the shot watched around the world,” a 90-year-old retired shop clerk from Northern Ireland was vaccinated from the coronavirus with a treatment jointly developed by Pfizer of the […]
More Cabinet posts to be filled
President-elect Joe Biden is filling up more spots in his proposed Cabinet. On Monday the Associated Press is predicting he would nominate Gen. Lloyd Austin as secretary of defense, which would make […]
