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Trump Alarms Aides As He Mulls Naming QAnon Lawyer Sidney Powell As Special Counsel

Warp Speed General Sorry For ‘Miscommunication’ Over Vaccine Shipments

Trump Shrugs Off Massive Kremlin Cyberattack As No Biggie, Baselessly Points To China

Bernie Sanders: Trump’s An ‘Authoritarian,’ But Also ‘A Reflection Of The Democratic Party’

Crime

Videos Show Boston Police Shove, Pepper-Spray Protesters

Ohio Quietly Passes Bill That Could Bankrupt Churches Linked To Fossil Fuel Protests

FEATURED

2020 Was Supposed To Be Our Best Last Chance To Save The Planet. So How Did We Do?

As the pandemic raged on, hopes this year would be pivotal for climate change action faded. But all is not lost. Yet.

Beth Gardiner

The New York Post Outed A Paramedic As A Sex Worker. Here’s What They Didn’t Tell You.

Women get stalked, even targeted for assault and murder when questioned about their sexual morality in a public manner.

Elle Stanger

Selling Nudes On OnlyFans Kept These Families Afloat This Year

Feeling abandoned by the government, struggling moms have flocked to online sex work to survive the COVID-19 pandemic.

Jesselyn Cook

Chadwick Boseman And The Weight Of The Final Role

Boseman's role in "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" shows his greatest talent — a star who shined and helped others shine, too.

Zeba Blay

HUFFPOST PERSONAL

I Was Raped As A Sex Worker And This Is What I Want You To Know

Laura LeMoon

What It's Like Teaching On Zoom To Students I've Never Met, And Often Not Seen Or Heard

Sarah Mina Osman

I Invited Mister Rogers To Dinner. A Few Months Later I Got A Beautiful Surprise.

John McCarthy, Ph.D.

I'm Dreaming Of A Less White Christmas For My Child of Color

Heather Tirado Gilligan

LIFE

The Psychology Behind Not Wanting To Get Tested For COVID-19

Here's why some people may hesitate to take a coronavirus test, even when they've been exposed.

Work/Life

13 Words Or Phrases That Would Totally Confuse Pre-COVID Us

For better or worse, 2020 and the pandemic have expanded our vocabulary. (Mostly for the worse, let's be real.)

Style & Beauty

13 Gifts For The Moira Rose Lover In Your Life

Nothing says "happy holidays, bébé!" like a nod to the beloved "Schitt's Creek" matriarch.

Food & Drink

How This Restaurant Owner Has Pivoted To Endure The ‘Craziest’ Ride He’s Been On

Sung Kim, the owner of Chick-N-Bap, shares how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected his unique business model.

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U.S. News

California Hospitals ‘Crushed’ With COVID-19 Surge

More than 3,500 confirmed or suspected COVID-19 patients were in intensive care units across the state.

By John Antczak and Amy Taxin, AP

United Airlines Passenger With Possible COVID-19 Symptoms Dies After Inflight Emergency

United and the CDC say they're working to contact passengers on a recent Orlando-to-Los Angeles flight.

Dominique Mosbergen

Gretchen Whitmer Rips Trump Administration For ‘Slow Walking’ Vaccines As People Die

It's either "corruption" or "ineptitude," snaps the Michigan governor. Maybe both.

Mary Papenfuss

Environment

Biden Introduces His Climate Team, Says ‘No Time To Waste’

The incoming Biden team will try to undo or block many of the Trump administration’s initiatives.

By Kevin Freking, AP

Kushner Helped Launch Shell Company That Paid Campaign Funds To Trump Family: Report

A complaint to the FEC claims American Made Media Consultants shields the identities of fund recipients.

Mary Papenfuss

U.S. News

Stanford Hospital Apologizes After Frontline Doctors Protest Botched Vaccine Rollout

Almost all medical residents who interact most closely with patients were bumped to the back of the line.

Mary Papenfuss

Mike Pompeo: ‘Pretty Clearly’ Russians Behind Mass Cyberattack

Experts fear it will take months to kick elite hackers out of the U.S. networks they have been quietly rifling through.

By Frank Bajak, AP

Entertainment

Meghan McCain Slams Trump After He Rails Against The Late John McCain Again

The president called the senator, who died in 2018, "one of the most overrated people in D.C." in a tweet this week.

Jenna Amatulli

U.S. News

12 Amazing Photos You Missed This Week

An eclipse-watching Santa, U.S. vaccines and a Times Square snowball fight round out this week's best images.

Chris McGonigal