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Biden picks Calif. AG to be first Latino health secretary

WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden has picked California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to be his health secretary, putting a defender of the Affordable Care Act in a leading role to oversee his ...

Dec 6, 2020

Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani tests positive for COVID

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump says his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani has tested positive for coronavirus. The president confirmed in a Sunday afternoon tweet that the former New York mayor had...

Dec 6, 2020

Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani tests positive for COVID

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump says his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani has tested positive for coronavirus. The president confirmed in a Sunday afternoon tweet that the former New York mayor had...

Dec 6, 2020

A unique recipe for healing: Bill Murray and a biblical text

Against the backdrop of a pandemic's blight and wounds from an acrimonious election, a group of acclaimed actors on Sunday will stage an online reading of a religious text with remarkable relevance to...

Dec 6, 2020

Inauguration planners rethink how to party in age of virus

WASHINGTON - Public health guidance to avoid big parties in the age of coronavirus is about to collide with what is typically one of America's biggest celebrations of all: the swearing-in of a new pre...

Dec 6, 2020

Trump challenges vote results while urging turnout in Ga.

VALDOSTA, Georgia - President Donald Trump is pressing his grievances over losing the presidential election, using a weekend rally to spread baseless allegations of misconduct in last month's voting i...

Dec 6, 2020

Voting opens in Venezuela assembly election amid boycott

CARACAS, Venezuela - Polling places in Venezuela open Sunday to elect members of the National Assembly in a vote championed by President Nicols Maduro but rejected as a fraud by the nation's most infl...

Dec 6, 2020

Report finds microwave energy likely made US diplomats ill

WASHINGTON - A new report by a National Academy of Sciences committee has found that "directed" microwave radiation is the likely cause of illnesses among American diplomats in Cuba and China. The stu...

Dec 6, 2020

Chinese probe prepares to return moon rocks to Earth

BEIJING - A Chinese probe that landed on the moon transferred rocks to an orbiter Sunday in preparation for returning samples of the lunar surface to Earth for the first time in almost 45 years, the s...

Dec 6, 2020

US Navy official says 'uneasy deterrence' reached with Iran

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The top U.S. Navy official in the Mideast said Sunday that America has reached an "uneasy deterrence" with Iran after months of regional attacks and seizures at sea, even...

Dec 6, 2020