Every day we curate the top trending stories and news in America and summarize them for easy digestion. Here are 5 top trending news today January 4th, 2021.
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Coronavirus
- The top advisor of the Trump administration’s Operation Warp Speed on Sunday blamed state leaders for ineffectively distributing COVID-19 vaccines.
- The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus pandemic has surpassed 350,000.
- Fauci rejects Trump claim that U.S. coronavirus deaths overcounted
- More than 20,430,088 people in the U.S. have been diagnosed with COVID-19.
- Southern California funeral homes run out of space for the bodies piling up.
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Politics
- Nancy Pelosi was re-elected for the fourth time as Speaker of the House.
- The United States Congress started a new term Sunday.
- President Donald Trump on Sunday said he will attend protests in Washington, D.C. on January 6.
- President Trump to give Reps. Jim Jordan and Devin Nunes the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
- President Trump asked Georgia’s top elections officials to overturn his defeat in the state during a Saturday phone call.
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Business
- More than 1.191.000 people air traveled since March in the U.S.
- Quibi, the short-form streaming service, is in talks to sell its content catalog to Roku. Surely, this announcement follows the sudden shutdown of Quibi a couple of months ago.
- Microsoft said that the suspected Russian hackers behind a massive cyberattack in The U.S also viewed some of the company’s source code used to build software products. However, the breach did not impact any products.
- Drugmakers in the U.S. raised the prices of many products. Actually, prices increase by an average of 3.3%. But, still lower than in previous years.
- MGM bids to buy Ladbrokes owner Entain.
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Society
- A shooting at a Texas church on Sunday killed a pastor and injured two other people.
- Teachers in Arizona’s Stanfield Elementary School District ride up to 150 miles a day on school buses to hand out food and homework packets to children.
- A head-on crash killed seven children and two adults in central California on New Year’s Day.
- Russian hackers staged their attacks from servers inside the U.S.
- The city of Kenosha, Wisconsin, is preparing for protests. That is because of the charging decision in the police shooting of Jacob Blake.
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World
- Norway’s Prime Minister Erna Solberg announced new coronavirus restrictions. Indeed, the new restrictions including a ban on alcohol being served in restaurants and bars. In addition, an advisory against having any guests over.
- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned Sunday of more lockdown restrictions in England.
- Egypt’s drug authority authorizes the Covid-19 vaccine made by China’s Sinopharm for emergency use.
- The new Covid-19 strain has reached China.
- WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will know if he will be extradited to the U.S on Monday.
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