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CANBERRA, Australia — This New Year’s Eve is being celebrated like no other, with pandemic restrictions limiting crowds and many people bidding farewell to a year they’d prefer to forget. Australia will be among the first nations to ring in

World’s worst-hit country marks 3,900 new deaths Wednesday, with fast-spreading new variants spark fear

Trump to return to White House early from Florida vacation  Associated Press Biden inauguration: Parade viewing stands near White House dismantled  USA TODAY Biden White House to issue memo to halt or delay midnight regulations on January 20  CNN Trump returning to White

While many of us agree that 2020 can take a long walk off a short pier, some of the worst things that happened brought out the best of us. Amid the hopelessness, isolation, fear and loss there were moments of

A Chinese drug regulator gave provisional approval to a Covid-19 vaccine developed by a state-owned company, providing a green light for mass inoculation roughly a year after the pandemic first emerged in central China.

Report calls incident a terrorist attack, without providing details; area where it occurred may have active Islamic State presence

Military releases year-end statistics, including 50 targets hit in Syria, a million doctor’s visits by troops, and over 1.4 million coronavirus-related phone calls answered

Officers to deploy drones and helicopters to locate parties that are barred under virus lockdown rules; Health Ministry frets about restrictions’ efficacy amid high infection rate

Biden national security adviser criticizes Obama’s foreign policy for not focusing on middle-class Americans  Fox News Biden White House to issue memo to halt or delay midnight regulations on January 20  CNN Trump administration speeds up ‘midnight rule-making,’ creating hurdles for Biden  NBC

State’s 1st case of new, more contagious variant of the coronavirus detected in SoCal  KTLA Los Angeles California reports its first case of the U.K. strain of COVID-19  CBS News New, potentially more contagious coronavirus variant found in California, Newsom says  Yahoo News