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TOP STORIES
Thursday, December 31
BIDEN SET FOR FAST ACTION ON JUDGES In a letter obtained by HuffPost, President-elect Joe Biden’s incoming White House counsel Dana Remus tells Democratic senators to try to find public defenders and civil rights attorneys in their states who they think would be good federal judges. “We are particularly focused on nominating individuals whose legal experiences have been historically underrepresented on the federal bench ... and those who represent Americans in every walk of life,” reads the Dec. 22 letter. [HuffPost]
TRUMP'S $2,000 CHECKS ALL BUT DEAD President Donald Trump’s push for $2,000 COVID-19 relief checks is all but dead as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell proposed loading up the bill with other White House priorities that appeared destined to fail. The roadblock set by Senate Republicans appears insurmountable, even as pressure builds to approve the bigger checks. [AP]
CENSUS BUREAU TO MISS DEADLINE The Census Bureau plans to announce it will miss a year-end deadline for handing in numbers used for divvying up congressional seats. That delay could undermine Trump’s efforts to exclude people in the country illegally from the count if the figures aren’t turned in before Biden takes office. [AP] |
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VACCINE ROLLOUT IS WAY BEHIND SCHEDULE Trump administration officials were saying just a few weeks ago that 20 million Americans could be vaccinated against COVID-19 by year’s end. Now here we are, and only 2.1 million people have gotten shots. Meanwhile, elderly Floridians have been camping out overnight in line for the vaccine. [HuffPost]
SECOND CASE OF NEW COVID-19 VARIANT IN COLORADO Colorado public health officials have likely identified a second case of the new more contagious variant of COVID-19 a day after the first confirmed case in the U.S. was found in the state’s Elbert County. This comes as a New York man has been hospitalized with COVID-19 after attending a conga-line holiday party hosted by a local Republican club that made headlines earlier this month. [HuffPost]
GOP SENATOR SAYS HE'LL OBJECT TO ELECTION CERTIFICATION Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) announced that he plans to object to the Electoral College certification process during a Jan. 6 joint congressional session, another effort by Trump’s allies to overturn the election. Hawley is the first senator to say he will object to the process, joining fellow Trump loyalist Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) in a long-shot bid to throw out Biden’s win. [HuffPost] |
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WHAT'S BREWING
NEGATIVE COVID TEST TO ENTER CANADA The Canadian government said passengers must have a negative COVID-19 test taken within three days before they arrive in the country. Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc said the measure will be implemented in the next few days. Canada already requires those entering the country to self-isolate for 14 days, and has banned flights from the United Kingdom because of the new COVID-19 mutation spreading there. [AP]
CHINA APPROVES FIRST HOMEGROWN VACCINE China has approved its first homegrown COVID-19 vaccine for general use, marking the addition of another vaccine in the global fight against a virus that is surging back in many places as winter sets in. The two-dose vaccine from state-owned Sinopharm is the first approved for general use in China. The go-ahead comes shortly after the country launched a program to vaccinate 50 million people before the Lunar New Year holiday in February. [AP]
IT'S NOT SURPRISING THAT A NURSE GOT COVID-19 AFTER A VACCINE SHOT A nurse in San Diego is making headlines for testing positive for COVID-19 about a week after receiving a coronavirus vaccine shot ― but in no way does this mean the vaccines don’t work. Both of the vaccines approved for use in the United States so far ― manufactured by Pfizer and Moderna ― require a patient to get two shots. After one shot, available data suggests the Pfizer vaccine has about 50% efficacy. [HuffPost]
VOTERS IGNORE EXECUTION SPREE The Trump administration has executed 10 people over the last five months — the first federal executions in nearly two decades. The government is trying to execute three more people before the inauguration of Biden, who opposes the death penalty. An outgoing administration has not carried out an execution after losing reelection since 1889, and this has already been the most federal executions conducted in one year since 1896. But most voters have barely noticed. [HuffPost]
5 ENVIRONMENTAL STORIES THAT COULD DOMINATE 2021 In 2020, the pandemic arrived, postponing plans and pushing climate change to the sidelines politically. But while action stalled, the climate crisis raged: countries boiled, burned and flooded. As we crawl out of 2020, a year that has brought people and economies to their knees, we look at five big environmental stories -- including the U.S. as a climate leader, factory farming, and oceans -- that could dominate in 2021. [HuffPost] |
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