In one pandemic reality, restaurants are packed. There are no coronavirus limits at college town bars. No social distancing dots speckling the floor. Some people are wearing masks, but even a weak proposal to make it a requirement in one city prompted an outcry.

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US President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday will name his cabinet picks, his chief of staff said on Sunday. Biden is taking calls related to his job as president ahead of his take over in January 2020 despite Donald Trump refusing to accept the results of the presidential election.

Joe Biden to name his cabinet ministers on Tuesday

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will meet on Saturday Taliban and the Afghanistan negotiators of the intra-Afghan deal, the State Department said on Friday. Pompeo will meet teams of both the sides separately in the Qatari capital Doha.

Mike Pompeo to meet Taliban, Afghan negotiators in Doha

Washington is poised to designate four more Chinese companies as backed by the Chinese military, sources said, curbing their access to U.S. investors as the Trump administration seeks to cement its hawkish China legacy in its waning days.

Trump administration to add four more Chinese firms to Pentagon blacklist: Sources

The United States in the last 24 hours confirmed more than 2,200 coronavirus deaths, highest ever since May, according to a tally by the Johns Hopkins University tally on Thursday.

Coronavirus: US continues to battle huge uptick as it sees over 2,200 new deaths

Oscar-winning actor Matthew McConaughey may be the next celebrity to throw his hat into the political ring. The star of "Dallas Buyers Club" and "Magic Mike" appeared to be considering the idea when discussing politics with syndicated talk radio host Hugh Hewitt in an interview posted online on Wednesday.

Matthew McConaughey toys with possible Texas governor run

The United States on Wednesday surpassed another grim figure as it became the first country to see more than 250,000 coronavirus deaths. The US has now reported 250,029 fatalities, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University, the highest national death toll so far.

US coronavirus death toll crosses 250,000 as several cities shut down schools

Some things are true even though President Donald Trump says them. Trump has been demanding for months that schools reopen, and on that he seems to have been largely right.

When Trump was right and many Democrats wrong

The counties won by President-elect Joe Biden experienced worse job losses, on average, during the initial wave of pandemic layoffs than the counties where President Donald Trump was strongest in his bid for reelection.

Counties that suffered higher unemployment voted for Biden

US President Donald Trump asserted on Twitter on Sunday that the US constitution has been badly shattered and violated during the 2020 Elections. Also read | Biden 'won because.

US constitution has been badly shattered and violated in the 2020 election:  Trump

The top Democrat in the US Congress on Friday joined in criticism against Facebook for allowing disinformation to spread over the social media platform, saying it was "part of the problem.

Facebook part of the problem: Nancy Pelosi over misinformation spread during US elections 

President Donald Trump on Sunday said for the first time that President-elect Joe Biden won the election before retracting it, saying he was victorious only because the election was "rigged" in tweets that were again labelled by Twitter for being unverified claims.

Biden 'won because...': Donald Trump retracts after acknowledging Democrat's victory for first time

US President-elect Joe Biden dialled US allies, Australia, South Korea and Japan on Thursday as he delivered the message of reassurance to American commitments in the region.

Joe Biden dials Asian Pacific allies, reassures American commitments

The United States govt will have to now delay the ban on Chinese app TikTok. The step is not compliant with the court order in favor of the Chinese social media giant.

US govt to delay ban on Chinese app TikTok, court ordered against ban

In United States, the top Democrats have accused the Republicans for 'poisoning' the democracy after refusing to accept the Joe Biden as the President-elect.

US: Democrats accuse Republicans for 'poisoning' democracy after refusing to accept Biden as President

KABUL, Afghanistan — Three U.S. presidents and 19 years later, it is President-elect Joe Biden’s turn to inherit the U.S. war in Afghanistan. The question that is leaving Afghans hanging is just how quickly he will remove troops.

US troops are still leaving, but Afghans hope Biden will help

US President-elect Joe Biden on Wednesday announced that his longtime aide Ron Klain will be his White House Chief of Staff, thereby declaring his first White House personnel.

Joe Biden makes first White House appointment, names Klain as Chief of Staff

LONDON — At least he wasn’t left waiting by the phone. British officials expressed relief that Prime Minister Boris Johnson was included in President-elect Joe Biden’s first round of calls with foreign leaders Tuesday, along with Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, President Emmanuel Macron of France and Prime Minister Micheal Martin of Ireland.

Would he or wouldn't he? Johnson is relieved that Biden called

Two critical unemployment programs are set to expire at the end of the year, potentially leaving millions of Americans vulnerable to eviction and hunger and threatening to short-circuit an economic recovery that has already lost momentum.

Millions face loss of jobless aid: ‘Without it, I’m dead in the water’

Judit Polgar might be the one woman in the world who knows how Beth, the heroine of the hit Netflix series 'The Queen’s Gambit,' really feels. Like Beth, Polgar, who is from Hungary, stood out during her career because she regularly beat the world’s top players, including Garry Kasparov, in 2002, when he was ranked No 1.

How 'The Queen's Gambit' started a new debate about sexism in chess

In the US election 2020, one of the wins for Donald Trump was from the state of Florida, where many conservative Cuban Americans backed his denunciation of leftist governments in Latin America.

Why Cubans prefer any US president other than Donald Trump

China on Monday refused to congratulate Joe Biden for winning the presidential election, saying the outcome still needs to be decided. After several world leaders hailed Biden's victory, China said that the fate of US election would be decided by its "laws and procedures".

China refuses to acknowledge Joe Biden as next president of US

The United States set a new grim record of over 120,000 coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, surging past the record it made the previous day, according to a tally by John Hopkins University.

With a record of over 120,000 Covid-19 cases, US sets another grim milestone

The situation of the election in the United States continues to remain tense and the world is waiting eagerly to see the next president of the United States. Over the last several months, the world's largest economy has seen it all: from becoming the world's worst-hit coronavirus country, widespread protests, riots and violence related to racism and President Donald Trump's erratic presidency and unverified claims.

Americans share hilarious posts as election counting saga continues

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