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A New York nurse received the COVID-19 vaccine as health care centers ready to give out Pfizer shots. U.S. reaches 300K deaths. Latest COVID news.

      

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The Republican congressman, who is leaving in January, said it’s “unacceptable” for Trump and others to “incite distrust” in elections.

      

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The vast majority of U.S. nursing homes won’t begin vaccinations against COVID-19 until Dec. 21, and some won’t start until Dec. 28, the CDC said.

      

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President-elect Joe Biden declared Monday that “democracy prevailed” and the integrity of the nation’s elections “remains intact,” as electors nationwide cast votes affirming his victory in last month’s election. (Dec. 14)

      

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The “Elf” reunion brought back cast members Will Ferrell and Zooey Deschanel in a Democratic fundraiser for the Georgia Senate run-off election.

      

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The dreadful near-term outlook of more American deaths is playing out against the backdrop of highly encouraging developments on the vaccine front.

      

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Two weeks ago, the Pittsburgh Steelers were the NFL’s lone undefeated team. Now, they’ve lost two in a row and are no longer the AFC’s No. 1 seed.

      

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Several Google services including Gmail, YouTube and Google Drive were down temporarily as the tech giant looks into a major outage.

      

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Michigan Capitol will also be closed to the public as delegates to the Electoral College are expected to cast their votes for Democrat Joe Biden.

      

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The shooting happened just before 4 p.m. at the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, mother church of the Episcopal Diocese of New York.

      

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