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US reaches 25 million COVID-19 cases while variants spread |
| The United States on Sunday surpassed 25 million cases of COVID-19, but an influential coronavirus model says the true number is likely much higher . About 17% of people in the U.S., or upward of 50 million people, have been infected with the coronavirus, researchers at the University of Washington estimate. They warn the U.S. is likely only identifying about half of COVID-19 cases. The model estimates the U.S. will report another 168,000 COVID-19 deaths before May, bringing the total to 569,000. |
| Meanwhile, scientists are urging caution as COVID-19 variants spread in the U.S. The University of Michigan's athletic department announced Saturday that it is shutting down "until further notice" due to confirmed cases of the B.1.1.7 variant among several individuals. The B.1.1.7 variant, first discovered in the United Kingdom, may be about 30% more deadly than previous versions of the disease, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned Friday. Other variations of the virus have popped up all over the world – including ones first seen in South Africa, Brazil and, most recently, California. |
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Sanders: Dems will pass relief package through reconciliation |
| Sen. Bernie Sanders, the incoming chair of the Senate Budget Committee, said Democrats will pass a relief package "as soon as we possibly can, " through budget reconciliation, which is a form of legislation that specifically governs changes to government spending, revenue and the federal debt limit. Reconciliation bills are immune to the 60-vote filibuster in the Senate, meaning only 51 Democrats would have to sign on to pass the legislation. President Joe Biden has proposed a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package that would give more stimulus money to state and local governments, small businesses, and help build a more robust vaccine rollout infrastructure, among other big list items. The proposal has been criticized by many Republicans and some Democrats for being too big and not sufficiently targeted. |
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Broadcasting legend Larry King dead at 87 |
| Larry King, the Brooklyn-bred man who became cable TV's most well-known talk-show host, died Saturday. He was 87 . King had been hospitalized with COVID-19. He died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to Ora Media, a production company King founded with Mexican media mogul Carlos Slim. King's career spanned more than 50 years in radio and TV broadcasting, half of it spent hosting CNN's "Larry King Live." He mingled with the famous and infamous, and average people who became neither. |
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Trump considered firing acting AG Rosen in final weeks of presidency |
| In his last weeks of office, President Donald Trump weighed a plan to oust acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and replace him with a loyalist inside the Justice Department when Rosen refused to pursue Trump's unfounded claims of voter fraud, a person familiar with the matter told USA TODAY. The source who is not authorized to comment publicly, said the plan, which Trump ultimately dropped, prompted remaining top Justice officials to threaten a mass resignation. "Until the very end, the pressure never stopped; the pressure was real," the source said, describing Trump's efforts to coerce federal prosecutors to take up a campaign ultimately aimed at overturning the election of President Joe Biden. |
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