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Stocks surged after Pfizer said its experimental vaccine was more than 90% effective and after former Vice President Joe Biden was elected president.

The United States has surpassed 250,000 deaths from COVID-19 on Wednesday.

The remote island of Bhashan Char was first proposed as an option to move the Rohingya in 2015. The island is potentially unsafe for inhabitants given its cyclone- and flood-prone nature.

"The vaccine is on its way, folks," Dr. Anthony Fauci announced. But what about the rest of world, especially families in poorer counties. Is the vaccine "on its way for them?"

The virus interfering with end-of-year parties across the country. Even the traditional Times Square ball drop in New York City at midnight will be closed to the public and seen virtually.

Almost 150,000 people in India have died from complications of COVID-19, behind only the U.S. and Brazil. India plans to begin inoculating its population of 1.4 billion this month.

Under the lockdown, nonessential retail businesses will be closed, and restaurants and bars will be takeout only. Residents are to stay within about a 3-mile radius of their homes.

On Sunday, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the nation's largest school district will begin a phased reopening on Dec. 7.

New survey data show an estimated 5 million teens use e-cigarettes and nearly 1 million use them daily. Here's more on their favorite brands and flavors.

A listener wrote us a letter arguing that the end of the decade is not imminent. There are some surprising ramifications of assuming a decade goes from a year ending in 1 through a year ending in 0.