 | | | | U.S. meatpacker Smithfield Foods has offered to help health officials distribute COVID-19 vaccines and store them in ultra-cold freezers that are in high demand to support a vaccination campaign, the company's chief administrative officer said on Thursday. | | | | | | Kyle Rittenhouse, a U.S. teenager accused of fatally shooting two protesters and wounding a third during protests in Wisconsin over the summer, is due in court on Thursday, where his lawyer will argue for dismissal of two of the six charges against him. | | | | | | The Trump administration on Thursday said it would issue a sale notice for oil leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge next week, putting it on track to hold an auction shortly before President-elect Joe Biden takes office. | | | | | | White House coronavirus task force member Anthony Fauci will meet with President-elect Joe Biden's team on Thursday for his first substantive talks with the new administration about how to combat the virus that has killed some 273,000 Americans. | | | | | | The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday delivered a blow to California Governor Gavin Newsom's pandemic-related ban on indoor religious services, siding with a church that defied the policy and challenged it as unconstitutional religious discrimination. | | | | | | President Donald Trump's administration is pushing to finalize new immigration restrictions before his term ends in January, according to three senior homeland security officials, a last-gasp effort in a policy area that was a central focus during his four years in office. | | | | | | President Donald Trump's push to crack down on illegal immigration and overhaul the legal immigration system was at the heart of the Republican's 2016 campaign and remained at the forefront of his White House agenda. | | | | | | U.S. President Donald Trump's pardoning of his former adviser Michael Flynn has fueled speculation over whether the president could pardon other associates, and even members of his family, during his final weeks in office. | | | | | | U.S. deaths from the coronavirus pandemic have surged past 2,000 for two days in a row as the most dangerous season of the year approached, taxing an overwhelmed healthcare system with U.S. political leadership in disarray. | | | | | | A high risk of fires due to weather conditions in California prompted Sempra Energy's San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) and Edison International's Southern California Edison to shut off power supply to close to 100,000 customers on Thursday. | | | | | |
