Dec 07 WATCH: Trump awards Medal of Freedom to Iowa wrestler Dan Gable President Donald Trump presented the nation's highest civilian honor to Dan Gable, a renowned wrestler and coach from Iowa who won a gold medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Trump called Gable "the greatest wrestler, probably ever."… Continue reading
Dec 07 Millions of hungry Americans turn to food banks for first time By Sharon Cohen, Associated Press Feeding America, the nation's largest anti-hunger organization, has distributed 4.2 billion meals in an 8-month period. That's an unprecedented pace in the group's history. Continue reading
Dec 07 Virginia Military Institute removes Confederate statue By Sarah Rankin, Associated Press Around 9:45 a.m. Monday, a crane plucked the statue off its base and slowly hoisted it to the ground at the public military college in Lexington, where allegations of systemic racism roiled the campus this fall. Continue reading
Dec 07 Supreme Court to decide whether Nazi art case stays in U.S. court By Associated Press Heirs to Jewish art dealers say their ancestors were forced to sell the Guelph Treasure to agents of Herman Goering, Hitler's second-in-command, in 1935. Continue reading
Dec 07 How rocky presidential transitions have shaped American history By Lisa Desjardins, Rachel Wellford, Vika Aronson, Emily Carpeaux, Erica R. Hendry For most of American history, the transition from president to president-elect has been smooth. The loser accepts his fate, publicly concedes and the winner prepares to take the reigns. And although this election and President Donald Trump’s response to losing… Continue reading
Dec 06 Watch 5:27 A whistleblower says the FDA isn't properly regulating vaccine facilities While much attention has been given to approving a COVID-19 vaccine, there's been little paid to the facilities where many vaccines are manufactured. A recent investigation in Vanity Fair features a former FDA inspector turned whistleblower who says that the… Continue watching
Dec 06 Despite promise, few in US adopting COVID-19 exposure apps By Bryan Anderson, Matt O'Brien, Associated Press Six months ago, Apple and Google introduced a new smartphone tool designed to notify people who might have been exposed to the coronavirus, without disclosing any personal information. But for the most part, Americans haven’t been all that interested. Continue reading
Dec 06 Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani tests positive for COVID By Associated Press The president confirmed in a Sunday afternoon tweet that the former New York mayor had tested positive. Giuliani has traveled extensively to battleground states in recent weeks in an effort to help Trump subvert his election loss. Continue reading
Dec 06 AP FACT CHECK: Trump floods rally with audacious falsehoods By Calvin Woodward, Associated Press President Donald Trump flooded his first postelection political rally with debunked conspiracy theories and audacious falsehoods Saturday as he claimed victory in an election he decisively lost. Continue reading
Dec 05 Trump presses Georgia governor to help subvert election By Bill Barrow, Ben Nadler, Associated Press President Donald Trump fruitlessly pressed Georgia’s governor on Saturday to call a special legislative session aimed at subverting the presidential election results in that state as Trump’s fixation with his defeat overshadowed his party’s campaign to save its majority in… Continue reading