Covid-19 Live Updates: White House Staff Will Be Among the First to Get Vaccinated  —  Shipments of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine left a facility in Michigan early Sunday, the initial step in the most ambitious vaccination plan in U.S. history.  The F.D.A. chief says the vaccine …

Trump Allies Eye Long-Shot Election Reversal in Congress, Testing Pence  —  Some House Republicans plan to try to use Congress's tallying of electoral results on Jan. 6 to tip the election to President Trump.  The attempt will put Republicans in a pinch.  —  President Trump lost key swing states by clear margins.

Russian government spies are behind a broad hacking campaign that has breached U.S. agencies and a top cyber firm  —  The Russian government hackers who breached a top cybersecurity firm are behind a much broader espionage campaign that also compromised the Treasury and Commerce departments …

Karl Rove: Trump Is ‘On the Edge of Looking Like a Sore Loser’  —  Karl Rove said on Fox News Sunday that President Donald Trump is starting to look like a “sore loser.”  —  The president keeps refusing to accept that he lost and Joe Biden won, and has been pushing all sorts of baseless claims …

Loeffler disavows photo taken with longtime white supremacist  —  Sen. Kelly Loeffler's campaign strongly condemned a photo circulating on social media of her posing with a longtime white supremacist taken at an event in Dawsonville on Friday.The photo shows Loeffler smiling from beneath …

John le Carré, Best-Selling Author of Cold War Thrillers, Is Dead at 89  —  Graham Greene called “The Spy Who Came in From the Cold,” featuring the plump, ill-dressed George Smiley, the greatest spy story he had ever read.  —  LONDON — John le Carré, whose exquisitely nuanced …

The Dangerous Idolatry of Christian Trumpism  —  We can pray peace will prevail, but we'd be fools to presume it will.  —  4 hr ago  —  This is a grievous and dangerous time for American Christianity.  The frenzy and the fury of the post-election period has laid bare the sheer idolatry and fanaticism of Christian Trumpism.

‘Proud Boys’ burn Black Lives Matter signs at churches in Washington  —  Flip  —  WASHINGTON (RNS) — People reportedly affiliated with the hate group Proud Boys tore down Black Lives Matter signs belonging to churches in Washington Saturday night (Dec 12), setting at least one aflame.

She Stalked Her Daughter's Killers Across Mexico, One by One  —  Armed with a handgun, a fake ID card and disguises, Miriam Rodríguez was a one-woman detective squad, defying a system where criminal impunity often prevails.  —  SAN FERNANDO, Mexico — Miriam Rodríguez clutched …

A Stunning Passage from the Latest Court Rejection of Team Trump  —  What a Wisconsin federal court's order turning back another campaign lawsuit tells us about the election-rigging case.  —  he most telling aspect of the Wisconsin federal district court's rejection of another Trump campaign lawsuit …

Pete Buttigieg emerging as leading contender for Transportation secretary  —  (CNN)Pete Buttigieg is emerging as a leading contender to be Joe Biden's Transportation secretary, multiple sources familiar with the transition's deliberations tell CNN.  —  The possible nomination would vault …

Trump, Top Officials to Be Offered Covid Vaccine Within Days  — Move has been urged as a way to boost public confidence  — FDA chief warned of hesitancy as a barrier to herd immunity  —  President Donald Trump and other top U.S. officials will be offered the newly-approved coronavirus …

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Accused of Sexual Harassment by Former Adviser  —  Lindsey Boylan, a Democratic candidate for Manhattan Borough president, accused New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, of sexual harassment during the time she worked as an adviser to him.

Trump will leave office with a historically bad economic record  —  (CNN)President Donald Trump still can't accept the numbers measuring his loss to Joe Biden: more than 7 million popular votes and 74 electoral votes.  —  But another set of numbers adds insult to his psychological injury.

The GOP's Minority Rule Caucus reveals its contempt for democracy  —  At least the Confederate secessionists acknowledged that Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 election.  —  The 18 Republican state attorneys general and 126 Republican House members who asked the Supreme Court to throw out the results …