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The Georgia Department of Public Health reported 5,890 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the state on Thursday, Dec. 17.

President Donald Trump’s expected move to his Mar-a-Lago club after he leaves office next month is being challenged by a lawyer who says a 1990s agreement allowing Trump to convert the Florida property into a business prohibits

President-elect Joe Biden plans to nominate New Mexico Rep. Deb Haaland as interior secretary.

Sheriff’s deputies in Kansas gave a woman a van so she could stop walking miles to work in the freezing cold.

Public health officials, fact-checkers and doctors tried to quash hundreds of rumors in myriad ways. But misinformation around the pandemic has endured as vexingly as the virus itself.

Regan, who is head of North Carolina’s environmental agency, was one of several contenders whose name emerged only in recent days.

U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers announced Thursday he tested positive for COVID-19.

Goodwill announced Thursday that it received a $10 million gift from author and philanthropist, Mackenzie Scott, making the donation the largest in the organization’s history.

Fate Winslow was released from Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola on Wednesday and was on his way back home after serving 12 years of a life sentence, WWL-TV reported.

The Trump administration said Wednesday it was cutting $200 million in federal healthcare funding to California because the state requires insurance providers to cover abortions.