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Summary List PlacementHistorians are growing increasingly concerned about collecting Trump's White House records because of the administration's inconsistency with preserving documents and the president's long-standing habit of ripping up papers, the Associated Press (AP) reported Saturday. With three days left in office, Trump is expected to handover documents from his administration as is customary for any departing president. However, according to several reports, this...

Summary List PlacementReports of a new and possibly more contagious coronavirus variant have prompted panic in Europe and beyond.   The new variant of the virus, called B.1.1.7, was first detected in the UK in September but had since spread rapidly. British authorities formally identified the new variant around mid-December. Prime Minister Boris Johnson cited one academic — Dr. Erik Voltz, a public health lecturer...

Summary List PlacementGeorgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said it would be best for President Trump to "leave quietly," after the state's election recount confirmed President-elect Joe Biden's win. In an interview published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Saturday, Raffensperger, who is a Republican, said he had wished the 2020 election would have "been a resounding trumping of the left," but that "it didn't work...

Summary List PlacementInes Green felt a sense of relief after Sweden announced stricter coronavirus measures for the first time since the start of the pandemic. The 23-year-old supermarket worker, who lives in the capital city of Stockholm, has been watching anxiously as people around her continue to live their lives despite a surge in new COVID-19 cases.   "At my work, I have come...

Summary List PlacementPresident-elect Joe Biden gained votes in Wisconsin's largest county on Friday after Trump's election campaign demanded a recount earlier this month. The Trump administration spent $3 million to request two recounts in Milwaukee and Dane counties after the president lost Wisconsin to Biden by over 20,000 votes. But county election officials in Milwaukee County completed their recount on Friday and found that...

Summary List Placement Two days before the US election, Washington DC is holding its breath. The nation's capital is no stranger to seeing demonstrations unfold on its streets, but this time around, the uncertainty and anticipation surrounding the 2020 election outcome feels different. "It feels like the calm before the storm," Taylor Rea, a 27-year-old consultant who lives in Washington, told Business Insider. "I...

Summary List PlacementDemocratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris fired back at President Trump and other prominent Republicans who purposely mispronounce her name. In an interview published on Saturday, Harris told PEOPLE Magazine that names are "very important" and should be respected.  "I think that the name that your parents give you, whoever you are, meaning whatever your gender or race or background or the language...

Summary List PlacementTop US infectious-disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci contradicted President Trump's repeated claims that the country is "rounding the corner" in the coronavirus pandemic. During a pre-recorded interview with the BBC that was broadcast on Sunday, Fauci said that an unprecedented surge in COVID-19 infections shows the country is "actually going in the wrong direction." Trump has been been making the assertion on...

Summary List Placement A teacher who had shown his class highly controversial cartoons of the prophet Muhammad was decapitated in a Parisian suburb on Friday afternoon, in what President Emmanuel Macron has called an "Islamist terrorist attack."  French police shot dead an 18-year-old man who allegedly beheaded the teacher with a large kitchen knife near a school in a residential suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine. According...

Summary List Placement In the last week, Thailand has seen some of its biggest anti-government protests in decades as thousands of students took to the streets to demand democratic reforms. Protesters are demanding the removal of Prime Minister and former military leader Pray uth Chan-o-cha. They are also calling for curbs on the powers of King Maha Vajiralongkorn, a ruler famous for his mistresses, crop...

Summary List Placement Microsoft founder Bill Gates said the travel ban implemented by President Trump earlier this year may have accelerated the spread of the coronavirus in the US. Speaking to Fox News in an interview that will be aired on Sunday, Gates said that the ban made thousands of people rush back into the country, but a lack of safety measures upon their...

Ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's unexpectedly found itself in a huge row with the British government after the company criticized its handling of migrant boats arriving from France.  UK Home Secretary Priti Patel has taken a strict stance on the issue, announcing that the government would stop any "illegal" attempts to reach the country. In a scathing Twitter thread, Ben & Jerry's called...

People who have lost their sense of smell during the coronavirus pandemic are now turning to "smell therapy" to help get it back. Chrissi Kelly, the founder of a UK charity that helps people who suffer from smell loss, told Business Insider that interest in their work has tripled since the start of the coronavirus outbreak.  Smell training uses four essential oils — rose,...

President Donald Trump has not yet commented on the death of Rep. John Lewis, despite being active on social media when the news was announced. Lewis, a civil rights icon, died aged 80 on Friday, seven months after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.  Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has also not released a statement yet. The Georgia congressman did not attend Trump's...

The murder of 20-year-old soldier Vanessa Guillén has sparked thousands of servicewomen to come forward to share their own stories of sexual assault in the US military.  Guillén, who was bludgeoned to death with a hammer, told her family that she was being sexually harassed at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas months before she went missing, her mother and sisters have said....

While 46 out of 50 US states have some form of face mask guidelines in place, 17 of those have implemented orders that make it mandatory to wear them in public. In these states, residents are required to wear a mask outside at all times when social distancing isn't possible, and also face penalties if they don't. Four states — Iowa, Montana, Wisconsin, South...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday to protect federal monuments from being vandalized. The order would "reinforce" the existing Veterans' Memorial Preservation Act, which already criminalizes the destruction of federal monuments. The order also remarks that "Christian figures are now in the crosshairs" and citing an unnamed "influential activist" who "declared that many existing religious depictions of Jesus and the Holy Family...

President Donald Trump said he ordered a "slow down" of coronavirus testing because it would lead to the identification of more cases.  Speaking at his campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Saturday, Trump said the US had tested 25 million people but that "when you do testing to that extent, you're going to find more people, you're going to find more cases." A White...