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In this Oct. 29, 2020 photo, students at West Brooklyn Community High School listen to questions posed by their principal during a current events-trivia quiz and pizza party in the school's cafeteria in New York. The school recently reopened after a three-week shutdown due to coronavirus cases in the neighborhood. It caters to students who haven't done well elsewhere, giving them a chance to graduate and succeed. (AP Photo/Kathy Willen, File)

As coronavirus spikes, NYC prepares to close schools again

Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he wouldn't stand in the way of an order by New York City to close its schools
Chicago native Christian Picciolini is a former neo-Nazi and the founder of the Free Radicals Project, which helps people disengage from hate and violence-based extremism.

'We have to understand the motivation for why people hate,' says former neo-Nazi leader from Chicago

Chicago native Christian Picciolini, 47, tells how he became a neo-Nazi leader -- and how he broke free from hate and helps people disengage from violence-based extremism.
FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020 file photo, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield puts his mask back on after speaking at a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing on a "Review of Coronavirus Response Efforts" on Capitol Hill in Washington. In mid-November 2020, U.S. health officials took a new tack to encourage Americans to wear masks, by emphasizing recent research that finds wearing one protects the person who wears it. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

CDC: Wearing a mask could keep you from catching virus

U.S. health officials are taking a new tack in the coronavirus fight by emphasizing recent research that finds a mask protects the person who wears it
U.S. Census Director Steven Dillingham speaks as he joins Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey as they hold a news conference to urge Arizonans to participate in the nation's once-a-decade census population count Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020, in Phoenix. Ending the 2020 census at the end of September instead of the end of October, could cost Florida and Montana congressional seats and result in Texas, Florida, Arizona, Georgia, and North Carolina losing $500 million in federal funding for healthcare for its neediest residents. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, Pool)

Census case that led to head count halt heads back to court

A month after a Supreme Court decision let the Trump administration end the 2020 head count of every U.S. resident, the case that propelled the ruling headed back before a federal judge with advocacy groups and the Trump administration at odds over how to proceed
This year's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, a 75-foot tall Norway Spruce, is guided onto a flatbed truck, Thursday, Nov. 12, 2020, in Oneonta, N.Y. The tree will be brought into New York City and erected at Rockefeller Center on Saturday, Nov. 14. (Diane Bondareff/AP Images for Tishman Speyer)
75-foot spruce to be NYC's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree
The 75-foot (23-meter) Norway spruce that will anchor New York City's holiday festivities as the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree has been cut down in upstate New York and will soon be headed to Manhattan
FILE — In this Friday, Nov. 6, 2020 file photo, students wait to board a school bus in Wheeling. With COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations spiking to record numbers across the U.S. and abroad, many school districts are temporarily shutting down in-person classes as holidays loom.
With COVID-19 surging, schools suspend in-person education
With COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations spiking, bus drivers and teachers in quarantine, students getting sick and the holidays looming, school systems around the U.S. and abroad are making a tough decision.
An official sorts ballots during an audit at the Floyd County administration building in Rome, Ga., on Friday morning, Nov. 13, 2020.
Georgia hand tally of presidential race gets underway
Election officials in Georgia's 159 counties started counting ballots Friday morning for a hand tally of the presidential race that stems from an audit required by state law.
In this Nov. 5, 2020, photo, Lehigh County workers count ballots as vote counting in the general election continues in Allentown, Pa.
Repudiating Trump, officials say election 'most secure'
It's hard to put it any more bluntly: "There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes or was in any way compromised." Rejecting President Donald Trump's persistent claims and complaints, a broad coalition of top government and industry officials is declaring that the Nov. 3 voting and the following count unfolded smoothly with no more than the usual minor hiccups.
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman, Wang Wenbin, speaks during a routine press conference where he congratulated U.S. president-elect Joe Biden at the foreign ministry in Beijing on Friday, Nov. 13, 2020. China on Friday became one of the last major countries to congratulate Joe Biden on being elected U.S. president. (AP Photo/Liu Zheng)
China congratulates Biden, but few US policy changes seen
China has become one of the last major countries to congratulate U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, who is expected to make few changes to U.S. policy toward Beijing on trade, technology and other conflicts that have soured relations
FILE — In this Oct. 15, 2020, file photo U.S. Attorney General William Barr speaks during a roundtable discussion on Operation Legend in St. Louis. Even before Barr issued a memo that authorized federal prosecutors across the country to investigate “substantial allegations” of voting irregularities if they exist, the Justice Department had already begun looking into two specific allegations.
Military voters fear they're part of unsupported fraud claim
Lawyers from Trump's campaign sent a letter alleging they had uncovered what they described as "criminal voter fraud" in Nevada and saying they had identified 3,062 people who "improperly" cast mail ballots. But voting rights activists say hundreds of people on the list appear to be linked to the U.S. military.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger speaks during a news conference with Fran Leathers, Director and Chair Oconee County Board of Elections reflected at right, on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020, in Atlanta. Georgia election officials have announced an audit of presidential election results that will trigger a full hand recount.
EXPLAINER: Is Georgia's upcoming ballot 'audit' a recount?
Georgia says it's going to be tallying -- by hand -- nearly 5 million ballots that were cast in its very close presidential election on Nov. 3. But is it a recount? An "audit"? And why are they doing it?
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People gathered in Black Lives Matter Plaza react to the presidential race being called by CNN in Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s favor over Pres. Donald Trump to become the 46th president of the United States, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020, in Washington. His victory came after more than three days of uncertainty as election officials sorted through a surge of mail-in votes that delayed the processing of some ballots.
The country reacts to Biden's projected victory
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