Hundreds of protesters attended a When the Gretch stole Christmas rally in Washington Wednesday night
Families waving Trump flags posed with Santa Claus while speakers denounced Michigan s Covid restrictions
The state s coronavirus pause banning eating indoors at restaurants was extended until January last week
Michigan recorded 3,792 new coronavirus cases and 72 deaths from the deadly virus yesterday
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Judy Woodruff:
States across the country continue to grapple with the economic fallout of COVID-19, as they also develop plans to deliver the vaccine to millions of Americans.
For the view from Michigan, I spoke with Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer earlier today.
And I began by asking what the COVID relief bill will mean for people in her state and what more she wants to see from the federal government.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, Mich.:
Well, I think it s really important that they took this step forward. And it is not nearly enough. It does not nearly address everything that we are confronting as states across the country.
Democrats press to open schools across the US as pandemic surges
In line with President-elect Joe Biden’s stated aim to reopen America’s schools during the first weeks of his administration, Democratic mayors and governors across the US are moving to resume in-person teaching in large urban school districts even as new infections, hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19 continue to reach new highs.
After the restart of in-person learning in New York City the country’s largest school district last month, Democratic officials in Washington state; Portland, Oregon; Chicago; Washington, DC; Oakland, California, and other big cities are working with teachers unions to resume face-to-face schooling as early as mid-January, despite widespread opposition from rank-and-file educators and parents.
Gen. Gustave Perna said he failed in leading initial rollout of COVID-19 vaccine
Operation Warp Speed head blamed miscommunication with a dozen states
States said they were told they will be getting fewer doses than first promised
Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, and Illinois reported issues
So did Kansas, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, Washington, and New Hampshire
Governors of Michigan and Washington publicly slammed federal government
Mishap comes as FDA granted approval to a second COVID-19 vaccine
Nearly 3 million Pfizer-BioNTech doses have been delivered to states so far
New vaccine by Moderna could start being shipped out to states next week
Republican state senators call on Trump to declare martial law to overturn Biden election victory
Within the last 48 hours, two Republican state senators, Bob Steinburg of North Carolina and Amanda F. Chase of Virginia, through public Facebook posts and in subsequent interviews, have declared that President Donald Trump should suspend civil liberties and declare martial law in order to stay in power. Both state senators have repeated Trump’s baseless claims of widespread election fraud and various other right-wing conspiracies. Steinburg was reelected to the statehouse this past year, while Chase is running for governor of Virginia.
In a Facebook post on Tuesday, Steinburg reiterated comments made earlier this month by retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney, suggesting Trump invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807, deploy soldiers and suspend habeas corpus. In an interview with WRAL Tuesday night, Steinburg alleged he was just “putting out there options that others say still r