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Summary List PlacementNew Jersey Rep. Andy Kim is receiving praise for helping to clean up the Capitol after it was ransacked by President Donald Trump's supporters on Wednesday.  During a break in debates early Thursday morning, Kim says he saw the mess left behind by the rioters in the rotunda and felt compelled to act. "I was just really affected emotionally. I felt this...

Summary List PlacementPresident Donald Trump told supporters at a rally on Monday that he hopes Mike Pence "comes through" to help overturn the 2020 election results, when the vice president presides over a joint session of Congress on Wednesday to formally announce the winner.  Trump has expressed a belief that Pence has the power to influence the outcome of Wednesday's ceremony, during which the...

Summary List PlacementCarl Bernstein, who helped expose President Richard Nixon's Watergate scandal, says President Donald Trump's attempts to pressure a Georgia official to overturn the presidential election is "far worse."  On Sunday, The Washington Post published audio from a call the president had with Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger on Saturday, where he told him to "find" enough votes to overturn President-elect Joe...

Summary List Placement Global coronavirus cases reached 40 million on Monday, as much of the world heads into a new wave of the outbreak.  That figure is based on three different estimates from Reuters, Worldometer, and Johns Hopkins University. The real figure is likely much higher too, experts have said.  Monday's landmark figure marks a doubling of worldwide coronavirus cases since August 10, and...

Summary List PlacementA family accused California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Sen. Kamala Harris, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, of trespassing on their property while surveying damage from one of the state's wildfires on Tuesday.  Newsom took Harris on a tour of the damage left behind by the Creek Fire, during which they took a few pictures at the shell of a former home in...

Summary List PlacementAttorney General Bill Barr likened coronavirus lockdowns to slavery at a talk to a private conservative college on Wednesday. Speaking at at Hillsdale College's Constitution Day Event, Barr was asked to explain the "constitutional hurdles for forbidding a church from meeting during COVID-19," according to CNN. Hillsdale College is located in Michigan, but the annual event takes place in Washington, DC. CNN...

Summary List PlacementA voter shut down President Donald Trump when he started to interrupt her during an ABC News town hall event Tuesday night. ABC News identified the voter as Ellesia Blaque, an assistant professor from Philadelphia who voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. At the town hall, Blaque explained that she was born with a disease called sarcoidosis, and started asking...

Billionaire Microsoft found Bill Gates spoke at a COVID-19 virtual conference on Saturday.  Gates called for the equitable disbursement of coronavirus drugs, so that these drugs don't just go to the "highest bidders."  The US government bought up almost the entire world's stock of remdesivir, a drug that has proved effective in helping patients recover faster from the coronavirus.  Visit Business Insider's homepage for...

The White House released a list of senators invited to be on the president's task force focused on re-opening America during the coronavirus pandemic. The only Republican senator not invited to be on the task force was Mitt Romney, one of Trump's most outspoken critics in his own party. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. President Donald Trump seemed to continue his feud...

Former President Barack Obama convinced Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders to abandon the 2020 Democratic presidential race during four lengthy phone calls, according to The New York Times. Two people familiar with the conversations said that Obama told Sanders that he had accomplished what he set out to do — pushing the party to the left. Sanders ended his presidential campaign last week, and went...

Business Insider spoke to an emergency room nurse working for the Ochsner Health System in New Orleans, who described what the fight against coronavirus has been like in his city.  Eduardo Bilbao, 29, says he's gone from seeing about one patient a month die under his care, to two in one week.  Bilbao says work has become "very stressful" and "very emotional."  Visit Business...

Bloomberg campaign staffers were widely promised a job through November, whether or not the former New York City mayor became the Democratic presidential nominee. But last week, all Bloomberg offices save for those in six battleground states were closed. It has left many out of a job and about to lose their health insurance as the coronavirus gathers pace in the US. Former staffers...

Chinese airlines have been selling tickets for as low as $4 during the coronavirus outbreak, according to a report in the South China Morning Post on Wednesday. While most of the flights in China have been canceled during the outbreak, about a third are still flying. Dozens of airlines have grounded flights to China for the time being. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more...

Google Trends data show that Americans are losing interest in the coronavirus, even though the death toll continues to rise in mainland China and other countries.  The World Health Organization said Monday that the epidemic peaked and plateaued in China between January 23 and February 2. Cases have been reported in 34 countries outside of China, with the most severe outbreaks in Italy, Iran...

John and Charlotte Henderson of Texas are currently the world's oldest living couple. They spoke to the "Today" show on Friday to recall how they first met and fell in love in 1934, and how they keep the romance alive today. Visit Insider's homepage for more stories. The world's oldest couple still make homemade valentines and enjoy a glass of wine together most nights....

In the early days of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, Chinese officials arrested citizens they accused of spreading rumors about the illness online. Journalists have also reported being detained and threatened by Chinese authorities while covering the outbreak. Experts are now faulting the Chinese government for its harsh crackdown on the flow of information about the virus. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. As...

In multiple reports on Tuesday, it was alleged that the Saudis were behind the hack of Jeff Bezos' phone in 2018. Eight months later, the National Enquirer published text message conversations and personal photos confirming Bezos had an extramarital affair. The new reports raise questions about whether the private messages obtained by the National Enquirer were given to them by the Saudis. Visit Business...

Rob Costelloe visited the Dublin Zoo on Sunday with his young son Sean. While Costelloe was filming his son, who had his back to the tiger enclosure, a big cat snuck up on the boy. The tiger then charged and tried to attack the boy, but ran into the glass instead. Costelloe told RTE that his son laughed it off. "It didn't particularly faze...