- President-elect Joe Biden is expected to pick retired Gen. Lloyd Austin as Defense Secretary, Austin, if confirmed, would be the first Black man to lead the Pentagon.
- Some 33 million Californians are now under stay-at-home orders under Gov. Gavin Newsom's criteria as the state's COVID-19 cases now top 1.4 million.
- Japanese PM Yoshihide Suga has announced a new round of $708 billion in stimulus spending, following some $2.2 trillion in two previous 2020 packages.
- UK PM Boris Johnson is now personally headed to Brussels as Brexit trade talks between the UK and EU have now reached a critical point with time running out at the end of the year.
- Ride-sharing giant Uber is selling its self-driving Aurora startup as the company never recovered from a fatal 2018 accident involving a self-driving vehicle hitting a pedestrian.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. -- Benjamin Franklin
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