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And Senate Democrats prep for judicial confirmations.

In "The Messenger," veteran reporter Peter Loftus takes readers through the harrowing days of 2020 as COVID-19 raged across the globe and biotech startup Moderna raced to create a vaccine to halt the viral rampage..

<em>WSJ</em> reporter covers the company's transformation from uncertainty to ubiquity

And Brian Kemp beats David Perdue.

School districts in the Rochester area are putting their new budget proposals up for a vote Tuesday. Taxpayers headed to the polls to vote on school budgets, propositions, and members of the board of education.

Though votes were reported as unofficial this evening, it’s apparent that Batavia City Schools’ $54.8 million budget and a related 1 percent tax levy increase passed with a vote of 301 to 108. It was one of eight districts to report a passed 2022-23 budget. The other proposition on Batavia’s ballot was the election of board members for three vacant seats. Chezeray Rolle came

And Florida emerges as ground zero for America’s culture war.

Here's your AM rundown of people, politics and policy in the Sunshine State.

Biden is determined to avoid a repeat of his decision last July to celebrate “independence from the virus,” only to watch the U.S. get hit with the lethal Delta surge weeks later.

In his November 29 Best of the Web column Bidens partisan pandemic history, the Wall Street Journals James Freeman took up President Bidens remarks the previous day on the Omicron variant (transcript here). Bidens remarks implicitly trashed President Trumps handling of the epidemic in a characteristically ungracious, ungrateful, and dishonest manner. I call it The Biden variant. Freeman writes in a more dispassionate spirit (links omitted): At Monday’s event the