Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Faces Last Hurdle Before U.S. Decision
Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine faces one final hurdle as it races to become the first shot greenlighted...
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SpaceX Launches Starship on Highest Test Flight, Crash-Lands
SpaceX launched its shiny, bullet-shaped, straight-out-of-science fiction Starship several miles into the air from a remote corner of Texas on Wednesday, but the 6 1/2-minute test flight ended in an explosive fireball at...
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President-Elect? GOP May Wait for January To Say Biden Won
Americans waiting for Republicans in Congress to acknowledge Joe Biden as the president-elect may...
Read MoreU.S. Virus Deaths Hit Record Levels With the Holidays Ahead
Deaths from COVID-19 in the U.S. have soared to more than 2,200 a day on average, matching the frightening peak reached last April, and cases per day have eclipsed 200,000 on average for the first time on record, with the crisis...
Read MoreNew White House Offer Adds $600 Checks To COVID-19 Relief
The Trump administration is back in the middle of Capitol Hill’s confusing COVID-19 negotiations, offering a $916 billion package to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that would send a $600 direct payment to most Americans but...
Read MoreEXPLAINER: Why Did Mount Everest’s Height Change?
The world’s highest mountain is now officially a little higher, and that might not be the end of the story. China and Nepal agreed this week on a new standard height for Mount Everest, the rugged Himalayan peak that straddles...
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‘Route Out’ of Pandemic: U.K. Gives 1st COVID-19 Vaccine Doses
A retired British shop clerk received the first shot in the country’s COVID-19 vaccination program...
Read MoreFeds Passed up Chance To Lock in More Pfizer Vaccine Doses
President Donald Trump’s administration is facing new scrutiny Tuesday after failing to lock in a chance to buy millions of additional doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine, which has shown to be highly effective against...
Read MoreAP Sources: Biden Picks Lloyd Austin as Secretary of Defense
President-elect Joe Biden will nominate retired four-star Army general Lloyd J. Austin to be secretary of defense, according to four people familiar with the decision. If confirmed by the Senate, Austin would be the first Black...
Read MoreChuck Yeager, 1st To Break Sound Barrier, Dies at 97
Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Charles “Chuck” Yeager, the World War II fighter pilot ace and quintessential test pilot who showed he had the “right stuff” when in 1947 he became the first person to fly faster than sound, has...
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