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Monday, December 14, 2020

Top News

Hospitals Prepare for First Shots as Virus Vaccine Shipments Blanket U.S.

By Jack Healy, Amy Harmon and Simon Romero

The first of nearly three million doses were sent across the country, the start of the most ambitious vaccination campaign in the nation's history.

Trump Administration Plans a Rushed Effort to Encourage Americans to Be Vaccinated

By Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Michael D. Shear

A large-scale public education campaign, delayed by false starts and investigations, will get off the ground just as the coronavirus vaccine becomes available to high-risk Americans.

Russian Hackers Broke Into Federal Agencies, U.S. Officials Suspect

By David E. Sanger

In one of the most sophisticated and perhaps largest hacks in more than five years, email systems were breached at the Treasury and Commerce Departments. Other breaches are under investigation.

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Today's Videos

Video: First U.S. Coronavirus Vaccines Leave Michigan Plant

By Reuters

Workers at a Pfizer plant in Kalamazoo, Mich., packed boxes of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on Sunday morning and loaded them onto trucks. Nearly 3 million doses are expected to reach all 50 states this week.

Video: 2 Killed in Explosion at Connecticut V.A. Hospital

By The Associated Press

Officials said two men were killed in an explosion at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Connecticut Friday morning while performing routine maintenance on a leaking steam pipe. Three others were injured.