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[ December 3, 2020 ] IBM Reports Hackers Target Vaccine Supply Chain Firms Administration
[ December 3, 2020 ] Pelosi and Schumer Back $900 Billion Coronavirus Stimulus Plan as Basis for Negotiations Administration
[ December 3, 2020 ] Ivanka Trump Questioned Under Oath in Lawsuit Over Use of Inauguration Funds Administration
[ December 3, 2020 ] U.S. States Plan to Sue Facebook Next Week Technology
[ December 3, 2020 ] Biden Promises Help to U.S. Workers Hit by Pandemic, Trump Hints at 2024 Run Politics

Administration

Pelosi and Schumer Back $900 Billion Coronavirus Stimulus Plan as Basis for Negotiations

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday urged Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to use a $908 billion bipartisan coronavirus stimulus plan as the basis for relief talks as Congress [...]
Politics

Biden Promises Help to U.S. Workers Hit by Pandemic, Trump Hints at 2024 Run

President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday promised a group of workers hit by the raging COVID-19 pandemic that more aid would be on the way, while President Donald Trump hinted he may be ready to begin [...]
Health

CDC Chief Warns Americans Face ‘Rough’ Winter From COVID-19 Surge

The head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned on Wednesday the COVID-19 pandemic, still raging with unprecedented fury nationwide, will pose the country’s grimmest health crisis yet over the next few [...]
Technology

U.S. Republicans Balk as Trump Uses Defense Bill for Leverage on Big Tech

President Donald Trump’s threat to veto a defense bill if it does not repeal legal protections for social media companies faced stiff bipartisan opposition on Wednesday, setting the stage for a confrontation with lawmakers scrambling [...]
Foreign Policy

Iran Watchdog Passes Law on Hardening Nuclear Stance, Halting U.N. Inspections

Iran’s Guardian Council watchdog body approved a law on Wednesday that obliges the government to halt U.N. inspections of its nuclear sites and step up uranium enrichment beyond the limit set under Tehran’s 2015 nuclear [...]

IBM Reports Hackers Target Vaccine Supply Chain Firms

December 3, 2020

IBM wrote onThursday a blog post saying that hackers are targeting the COVID -19 vaccine supply chain, which makes sure that vaccines are preserved in temperature-controlled environments while being stored and transported. The company said [...]
Pelosi and Schumer Back $900 Billion Coronavirus Stimulus Plan as Basis for Negotiations

December 3, 2020
Ivanka Trump Questioned Under Oath in Lawsuit Over Use of Inauguration Funds

December 3, 2020

CDC Chief Warns Americans Face ‘Rough’ Winter From COVID-19 Surge

December 3, 2020

The head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned on Wednesday the COVID-19 pandemic, still raging with unprecedented fury nationwide, will pose the country’s grimmest health crisis yet over the next few [...]
CDC Panel Says Health Workers, Nursing Homes Will Get COVID Vaccine First

December 2, 2020
UK Approves Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, First in the World

December 2, 2020

U.S. Formally Exits Global Climate Pact Amid Election Uncertainty

November 4, 2020

The United States formally exited the Paris Agreement on Wednesday, fulfilling an old promise by President Donald Trump to withdraw the world’s second-largest greenhouse gas emitter from the global pact to fight climate change, Reuters [...]
Storm-Battered U.S. Gulf Coast Braces for Hurricane Delta

October 9, 2020
California Hits Milestone With 4 Million Acres Burned in Historic Wildfires

October 2, 2020

U.S. States Plan to Sue Facebook Next Week

December 3, 2020

A group of U.S. states led by New York is investigating Facebook Inc for possible antitrust violations and plans to file a lawsuit against the social media giant next week, four sources familiar with the [...]
U.S. Republicans Balk as Trump Uses Defense Bill for Leverage on Big Tech

December 3, 2020
Facebook Cryptocurrency Libra to Launch as Early as January but Scaled Back

November 27, 2020

Next LGBTQ Rights Legal Battle Looms After Supreme Court Victory

June 16, 2020

The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling protecting LGBT rights in the workplace sets the stage for another major legal fight over the scope of religious-rights exemptions to certain federal laws that could dilute the landmark decision’s [...]
Former Trump Adviser Offers Help to Iraqis that Trump Wants to Deport – For a Price

August 28, 2017
Marijuana Legalization Could Gain Prominence in 2020 Election

August 14, 2017

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