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Thursday as part of CNN’s New Year’s Eve coverage, network correspondents Gary and Lindsay Tuchman hit the slopes at Mt. Hood Skibowl in Oregon.

A grandmother raising five children in Fauquier County, Virginia, no longer has to use pots and pans to catch the rain coming through her ceiling.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) found several ways to exploit the coronavirus pandemic it unleashed, ruthlessly using the incalculable economic, political, and social damage inflicted upon the rest of the world to its advantage.

A now-former employee at a medical center “intentionally” allowed hundreds of coronavirus vaccine doses to expire.

An oncologist has lifted the crushing weight of medical debt off the shoulders of almost 200 cancer patients in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Thursday dismissed attempts to raise the amount of stimulus checks from $600 to $2,000 in a standalone measure, dismissing the House legislation and accusing Democrats of advocating “socialism for rich people.”

Pop superstar Selena Gomez took to Twitter on Tuesday to say that “Facebook is going to be responsible for thousands of deaths” after allowing “lies about COVID and vaccines” to spread on its platform.

A man named National Teacher of the Year in 2019 tweeted Wednesday that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) neighbors should act like a “true Kentucky hero” and attack him the way Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) neighbor attacked Paul in 2017.

Left-wing journalist Kurt Eichenwald publicly wished harm on individuals who do not wear masks in public, telling his 506,000 Twitter followers that he desires to “find an antimasker and beat them to death.”

Actress Susan Sarandon is calling on far-left lawmakers in Congress to refuse to vote for Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) as House Speaker as a means to “force” Pelosi to bring a vote to the floor on Medicare for All.

Days away from Georgia’s Senate runoff elections, Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) announced Thursday that he is in quarantine after coming into close contact with a campaign staff member who tested positive for coronavirus.

CNN reported on Wednesday that Florida, under the leadership of Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), is “bucking” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommendations by prioritizing seniors in its distribution of the limited supply of coronavirus vaccines.

The NBA’s fight to prevent the spread of the coronavirus amongst their players and staff has just escalated.

The Officer Down Memorial Page reports more than 300 law enforcement officers and agents died in the line of duty during 2020. At least 184 of those came from COVID-19 exposure.

China’s communist dictator Xi Jinping boasted of his nation’s achievements in 2020 — a year defined by a deadly pandemic that Beijing could have prevented — during his regular New Year’s Eve speech.

Up to half of health care workers in some parts of California are refusing to take the coronavirus vaccine, despite scientific evidence that it is safe, leading to a potential surplus of doses and renewed questions about the system for allocating them.

A New York City man severed his penis Wednesday and threw it in his Staten Island apartment’s toilet, according to a report.

L.A. County Supervisor Janice Hahn has written to Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) to ask that he request the return of the hospital ship U.S.N.S. Mercy to provide additional hospital bed capacity as the area struggles with an ongoing coronavirus surge.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday said his city has a goal for coronavirus vaccinations in January: vaccinate 1 million New Yorkers.

A 15-year-old has been arrested in connection with an incident Tuesday when a group of cyclists appeared to vandalize a BMW in Manhattan.

Police in England have arrested a woman in connection with a video of an allegedly “empty” hospital in Gloucestershire that was posted on social media.

Oscar-winning Hollywood star Patricia Arquette has compared the refusal to wear masks in a grocery store to having her “free flow”period without wearing pants.

Despite a challenging year, there were key victories for the president and his supporters felt particularly vindicated about their decision to vote for him.

Since late November, a violently aggressive squirrel has left some Queens residents afraid to leave their homes.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) said Wednesday that he will not jump ahead of more vulnerable populations, such as seniors, to receive a vaccine for the Chinese coronavirus despite his status as an elected official, telling reporters that he is “not the priority.”

Hollywood filmmaker Judd Apatow is blaming President Donald Trump for the death of Congressman-elect Luke Letlow, claiming without evidence that the Louisiana politician would be alive today if the president had promoted mask-wearing in the Republican party.

The State of New York has given the OK for the Buffalo Bills to let a limited number of fans into Bills Stadium to watch the Playoff game.

Universal Orlando theme park hit its capacity ten minutes after opening despite being in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic this season.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday that the new, more easily transmissible strain of coronavirus found recently in the United Kingdom had also been discovered in California.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dawn Wells, who played the wholesome Mary Ann among a misfit band of shipwrecked castaways on the 1960s sitcom “Gilligan’s Island,” died Wednesday of causes related to COVID-19, her publicist said. She was 82.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Wednesday criticized Senate Republicans, and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) specifically, for blocking Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-NY) request for unanimous consent on approving $2,000 stimulus checks for the American people, contending the Senate GOP possesses “an endless tolerance for other people’s sadness.”

A nurse in Indonesia has been suspended from his duties after admitting he took off his personal protective equipment (PPE) to have sex with a coronavirus patient.

Rep.-elect Luke Letlow, who passed away Tuesday while battling complications with the coronavirus, suffered a heart attack during an operation to assist in fighting off the virus, according to a report from the Monroe News-Star.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) has prioritized addicts as one of the next groups in line to receive the limited supply of vaccines for the Chinese coronavirus, sparking backlash from Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), who ripped the Democrat leader for “prioritizing vaccines for drug addicts over tens of thousands of seniors who have been home bound since the start of the pandemic.”

Scientists don’t know if the coronavirus’s new variant will worsen the pandemic as L.A. officials believe it is already fueling infections.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has again expanded the most strict coronavirus measures across England, with three-quarters of the population to go under Tier 4.