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President Trump made a show of strength upon his return to the White House, removing his face mask while standing on a balcony for a photo opportunity, but his health remains highly scrutinized and subject to lingering concerns.

Since Trump’s Covid diagnosis on Thursday, more White House staffers—including his press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, have tested positive, adding to the WHO’s estimates that one in ten people worldwide has contracted coronavirus.

As the outbreak spreads, the New York Times reported that the White House is stalling new stricter guidelines on approving a Covid-19 vaccine from the FDA that would make it harder for a vaccine to be approved by the November presidential election.

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The CDC has updated its coronavirus guidelines with information about airborne transmission of the disease that had been previously deleted in September. 

Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito raised the prospect of revisiting the 2015 Obergefell decision that made marriage equality law of the land.

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Antivirus software pioneer John McAfee was indicted on Monday for failing to file tax returns and tax evasion, with authorities alleging the tech entrepreneur concealed assets from the IRS, including real estate, a yacht, a car and cryptocurrency.

Meanwhile, the IRS must honor a judge’s order to deliver stimulus check relief to 80,000 incarcerated individuals—although the population eligible for relief may be even higher.

Weapons manufacturer Axon will equip more than 3,800 border patrol agents mostly stationed along the southern border with body cameras as part of a $13 million contract with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

ExxonMobil’s position as the largest energy company in the U.S. is under threat from Florida-based NextEra, the world’s largest producer of wind and solar power. Last week, NextEra Energy briefly beat Exxon by market capitalization—and it could happen again.

Educate!, a group working to teach skills to young people in East Africa, was just chosen by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to accelerate its training in Kenya. Its current project: expanding its bootcamp and e-learning platform for motorbike couriers.

The Nobel Prize for Medicine awarded a British and two American researchers for the discovery of the Hepatitis C virus. Lookout today for the Physics announcement.

University of Chicago researchers found that getting less sleep is perceived as manly, as if real men don’t sleep. But this is a harmful stereotype, as science is unequivocal in the assessment that sleep, in fact, makes you strong.

Oops, he did it again! For the second straight Grand Slam, Novak Djokovic hit a ball that hit a line judge above the shoulders.

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