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How Joe Biden could make Brazil his first “climate outlaw”

Biden plans to label countries as "climate outlaws" for failing to address climate change. Brazil might be at the top of his list.

How the pandemic got people smoking again 

Lung health is at risk from Covid-19. Naturally, some Americans turned to cigarettes.

80 percent of those who died of Covid-19 in Texas county jails were never convicted of a crime

The "devastating human toll" of Covid-19 in Texas’s correctional facilities is revealed in a new report by University of Texas at Austin researchers.

2019 was a terrible year for measles. 2021 could be much worse.

The pandemic is interrupting measles vaccine programs around the world.

How risky is air travel in the pandemic? Here’s what the science says.

The airline industry says getting on a plane is safe. But nothing is perfectly safe when it comes to Covid-19.

Most Latinos voted for Biden — but 2020 revealed fault lines for Democrats

Democrats often haven’t treated Latinos as persuadable voters.

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A Pennsylvania poll worker explains the painstaking process of counting votes

How the Navajo Nation helped Democrats win Arizona

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My two days watching Newsmax, the network waging war on Fox News from the right

How North Carolina and Maine dashed Senate Democrats’ hopes of a “blue wave”

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Why Trump is suddenly replacing Pentagon officials with loyalists

Report: Election officials find no evidence of widespread voter fraud

Trump’s final two months in office might be the worst Covid-19 months yet

The 2000 election doesn’t justify Trump’s refusal to concede to Biden. Here’s why.

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Why Britney Spears’s fans are convinced she’s being held captive

How to have a safer — but not safe — pandemic Thanksgiving

Meet the professional memers

Why the Biden administration should establish a Department of Climate

Study: Trump’s tweets can lead Republicans to lose faith in elections

What happened in Georgia: 6 Black women organizers on a historic election

Alaska Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan wins a second term

Trump’s attempt to overturn the election result is ramping up. Here’s what comes next.

America’s war on drugs has failed. Oregon is showing a way out.

The incredibly bizarre Dean Browning and “Dan Purdy” Twitter drama, explained

Biden: Trump’s refusal to concede is an “embarrassment”

Mike Pompeo undermined America’s democracy in one press conference

What Bill Barr’s memo and Mitch McConnell’s speech mean for the election

The surprising Armenia-Azerbaijan peace deal over Nagorno-Karabakh, explained

Sen. Thom Tillis holds off Democratic challenger in North Carolina, a crucial win for Republicans

Why the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine is a cause for optimism — and skepticism

Social media is making a bad political situation worse

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What Joe Biden won — and what he didn’t

Trump acolyte Beth Van Duyne has won a close House race in Texas’s 24th District

The Supreme Court appears likely to reject the latest attack on Obamacare

Why North and South Dakota are suffering the worst Covid-19 epidemics in the US

It’s official: 2020 is the busiest Atlantic Hurricane Season on record

5 women who ran on their national security backgrounds to flip GOP House districts in 2018 have won again

Amazon gets hit with antitrust charges in Europe

One pollster’s explanation for why the polls got it wrong

Everything about Netflix’s Hillbilly Elegy movie is awful