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December 21, 2020 6:11 AM By Brandon Lee and Alex Ruoff A fix for unexpected medical bills will advance as part of a year-end spending package after key lawmakers reached agreement on how to address the issue earlier this month. The text of the $1.4 trillion omnibus spending measure and $900 coronavirus stimulus package hasn’t been released yet. The House and Senate plan to vote on the measure today. Both chambers passed, and President Donald Trump signed, a single-day stopgap measure last night keeping the government open through midnight. The legislation is based on a deal ...

December 14, 2020 7:01 AM By Zachary Sherwood and Brandon Lee Members of the Electoral College meet today to officially elect Joe Biden, a moment some Republican lawmakers have targeted as the end of President Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the results as far as they’re concerned. The constitutionally mandated procedure across the 50 states and the District of Columbia usually passes with little notice. But this year, it may help conclude a chaotic election season punctuated by Trump’s refusal to concede and his frequent insistence, without evidence, that the v...

Dec 12, 2020, 8:31 PM – Updated on Dec 13, 2020, 9:06 PM Word Count: 1627 (Bloomberg) — If successful, the plan could help end a pandemic that’s killed almost 300,000 Americans in the 47 weeks since the first case was recorded. FedEx Corp. and United Parcel Service Inc. picked up the first shipment of the Pfizer Inc.-BioNTech SE vaccines from a Kalamazoo, Michigan, factory on Sunday morning. The first deliveries are scheduled for Monday morning and the initial lot will be in all 50 states by Wednesday, according to Gustave Perna, the army general who serves as chief operating officer fo...