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from Asia Times
LEAST BIASED, HIGH; News & Media Website based in Hong Kong
Seoul may be forced to enact its first lockdown as current social distancing measures fail to curb new outbreak.
Health officials reported 613 virus deaths over the past 24 hours, crossing the 600 mark for the first time.
Recent research shows SARS-CoV-2 seems to have a slower rate of mutation than other RNA viruses.
The US government has wholly failed to deal with China's blind eye and unmitigated shipments of the lethal opiate.
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from BBC News (UK)
UK and Russian scientists are teaming up to trial a combination of the Oxford-AstraZeneca and Sputnik V vaccines to see if protection against Covid-19 can be improved. Mixing two similar vaccines could lead to a better immune response in people. The trials, to be held in Russia, will involve over-18s, although it's not clear how many people will be involved. ... Russia was the first country to register a Covid vaccine for emergency use - in August, despite only having been tested on a few dozen people.
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from BuzzFeed News
LEFT BIAS, MIXED, Media/News Company in New York
These 126 House Republicans threw their support behind a Texas attempt to overturn the election results in key battleground states.
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from DW News (Deutsche Welle)
Broadcasting & Media Production Company in Bonn, Germany
Researchers say global carbon emissions dropped by an estimated 2.4 billion metric tons this year due to the coronavirus-induced lockdowns. They have also warned that the emissions may rebound once the pandemic ends.
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from KHQ Local News (NBC Spokane)
“As I have said before, President Trump has every right to pursue legal recourse in response to claims of voter fraud and election impropriety. With historic turnout, razor-thin margins, and massive changes to voting processes in the midst of a global pandemic, many people have had questions about the election and its results. This case is about the Supreme Court answering those questions for the American people so we can move forward. This amicus brief specifically focuses on Constitutional requirements for elections and the legal requirement that changes to election processes be approved by state legislatures, as well as the state laws which require election officials to check signatures on mail-in ballots. These are Constitutional principles of free and fair elections, and if they have been violated, the American people have a right to know.” — Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05)
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from National Review RIGHT BIAS
The odds of the Texas election lawsuit prevailing in the Supreme Court might not be less than one in a quadrillion, but they are extremely remote — and should be. Texas is asking the Supreme Court to invalidate the presidential election in four battleground states won by Joe Biden because, it argues, election procedures in those states violated the Constitution, and the resulting irregularities impermissibly diluted the votes of Texans.
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from Reason Magazine
Magazine in Los Angeles, California
This week a Los Angeles County judge ruled that a local ban on outdoor dining at restaurants, ostensibly aimed at reducing transmission of the COVID-19 virus, was "not grounded in science, evidence, or logic." Around the same time, California Health and Human Services Secretary Mark Ghaly admitted that the same thing is true of a state ban on outdoor dining that currently applies to all of Southern California, including Los Angeles County. Ghaly said that ban, which is one of many restrictions that are triggered when a region's available ICU capacity drops below 15 percent, is "not a comment on the relative safety of outdoor dining" but is instead aimed at discouraging Californians from leaving home.
from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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from The Washington Post
Newspaper in Washington, D.C.
By George P. Shultz: Dec. 13 marks my turning 100 years young. I’ve learned much over that time, but looking back, I’m struck that there is one lesson I learned early and then relearned over and over: Trust is the coin of the realm. When trust was in the room, whatever room that was — the family room, the schoolroom, the locker room, the office room, the government room or the military room — good things happened. When trust was not in the room, good things did not happen. Everything else is details.
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