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Reporter Khushbu Shah discusses the runoff in Georgia. Republicans have 50 seats in the Senate and the Democrats 48, so much hangs on the outcome of the 5 January election
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Grim news comes as first doses of Pfizer vaccines were distributed to frontline healthcare workers
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President-elect will also nominate regulator Michael Regan to head Environmental Protection Agency
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House committee is investigating Purdue Pharma and billionaire family’s role in epidemic that has killed almost 500,000 Americans
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Bill will include $600 to $700 stimulus checks and extended unemployment benefits
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In interview, the Democratic New York congressman-elect says suspicion ‘communicates the lack of trust African Americans feel towards American institutions’
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