Alexander Nazaryan
National Correspondent
Yahoo NewsScott Atlas, the perfect Trump official, steps down
Dr. Scott Atlas, the controversial White House coronavirus adviser, left federal employ much the same way he entered it: with an appearance on Fox News.
Yahoo NewsStudy: A good cloth mask is a powerful weapon against the coronavirus
Face coverings, including masks made of cloth, are highly effective in protecting the people who wear them and those around them, according to a new study.
Yahoo NewsRapid testing could 'drive the epidemic toward extinction'
Cheap coronavirus tests that ordinary Americans can administer at home could significantly drive down infection rates, researchers say. Their statistical models indicate that potential inaccuracies become effectively inconsequential if enough rapid tests are done with sufficient frequency.
Yahoo NewsFauci warns of 'stunning number of deaths' from coronavirus
The nation is entering “a very vulnerable period” that could see the number of coronavirus deaths rise rapidly, Dr. Anthony Fauci warned in conversation with Yahoo News on Monday.
Yahoo News'Close the bars' and open schools, Fauci says
Evidence strongly indicates that schools are not the sites of significant viral transmission, leading some to wonder why schools are being forced to bear the pandemic’s brunt, when it is adults in adult spaces who seem to be spreading the virus.
Yahoo News'Squad' member Rashida Tlaib is not sorry: 'I'm not the problem. The institution is.'
Rep. Rashida Tlaib expects the incoming Biden administration to do right by progressives for aligning behind the Democratic nominee, who shares few of their imperatives but is, of course, vastly preferable to them than Trump.
Yahoo NewsTrump appoints speechwriter fired for attending conference with white nationalists to commission that preserves Holocaust memorials
Darren Beattie, a former speechwriter fired from the White House in 2018 for attending a conference at which white supremacists were also present, has been appointed to a commission tasked with preserving Holocaust-related sites across Europe.
Yahoo NewsBiden aides cite 9/11 report on the danger of Trump stalling transition
President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team has intensified its criticism of President Trump’s refusal to engage in the orderly transfer of power, citing the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks as an example of what happens when an incoming administration does not receive full cooperation from the outgoing one.
Yahoo NewsAnti-Trump Republican Gov. Larry Hogan appeals to 'exhausted majority' as he teases presidential bid
Larry Hogan, the Republican governor of Maryland, has a simple message: There is another way. Arguing before the Ronald Reagan Institute that this is a nation of “civility and pragmatism,” he observed that “most of us are sick and tired of all the drama.”
Yahoo NewsRage, tweets and TV: A vision of a Trump post-presidency begins to emerge
President Trump will probably not concede the election, according to former advisers, but he undoubtedly has his eye on what's next.
Yahoo NewsBig Tech and Big Law dominate Biden transition teams, tempering progressive hopes
Obama-era centrism prevails in Joe Biden's transition teams. That has some progressives worried that Biden represents nothing more than a return to normal, at a time when many of them believe the nation is ready to embrace policy ideas well to the left of center.
Yahoo News20 million Americans will get a COVID vaccine this year, administration says
The Trump administration promised that 20 million Americans would receive a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of the year.
Yahoo NewsWhat we can learn from the Amish about coronavirus
The outbreak is indicative of what happens when people gather in small social situations — something millions of lockdown-weary Americans are eager to do, regardless of whether they are Amish or not.
Yahoo NewsRepublicans demand answers about the election — the 2016 election
Even as President Trump continued to make false claims that he, not Joe Biden, won last week’s election, his congressional allies held a hearing Tuesday about alleged spying on the Trump campaign by the Obama administration in 2016.
Yahoo NewsWhite House attorney dispatched to agency blocking Biden transition
The General Services Administration has so far declined to provide President-elect Joe Biden with the transition resources that the agency is legally mandated to offer an incoming president. Trent Benishek could prove a crucial ally in that effort, Democrats fear.
Yahoo NewsHow Trump fumbled the coronavirus crisis and sabotaged his own reelection
Nine months after President Trump's State of the Union address, his message seems like a dispatch from a distant planet. By spring the coronavirus would remake everything about the presidential race, from how Americans cast ballots to which anxieties animated their choice for president.
Yahoo NewsSo is Pfizer part of Operation Warp Speed or not? Yes and no.
Pfizer’s assertion that it is not part of Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration’s vaccine program, is setting off a heated political debate.
Yahoo News'It's a slaughter,' doctors say of new coronavirus wave
Coronavirus hospitalizations have been rapidly climbing, leading to concerns that we may once more see what we saw over the spring and early summer: crowded intensive care units, overwhelmed hospitals, deaths that could have been prevented.
Yahoo NewsPredicted 'blue wave' fails to reach the House
Democrats who had been hoping to expand their share of seats in the House of Representatives instead saw some of their most promising young legislators fall to Republican opponents who mounted unexpectedly spirited challenges.
Yahoo NewsMoney wasn't everything this year, as well-funded Democrats fell short
Even as Joe Biden was edging toward a narrow victory, many progressives will be left to wonder why their massive outlays did not produce the resounding victories they had hoped for and expected.
Yahoo NewsReligious school retreat led to coronavirus outbreak in Wisconsin
Although nobody fell seriously ill, the scope of the outbreak — an exceptionally high 76 percent infection rate — suggests the intensity with which the airborne pathogen can proliferate in the absence of appropriate measures.
Yahoo NewsHolocaust denial, coronavirus misinformation at issue as Big Tech chiefs testify
The chief executives of three leading technology firms testified before a Senate committee Wednesday on their efforts to combat misinformation and prevent bias from taking root in their content-moderation efforts.
Yahoo NewsAmy Coney Barrett's confirmation shows how the courts will be Trump’s most lasting legacy
With Amy Coney Barrett's confirmation, even if the Republican Party faces potential cataclysm on Election Day, it can rest safely in the knowledge that it has fully remade the federal judiciary in its image.
Yahoo NewsYes, it's possible to vote safely in person
Voting can be conducted safely, provided that the proper precautions are taken. States that held congressional primaries in September, including Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Delaware, did not appear to see significant case increases, despite record turnout.
Yahoo NewsCan 'circuit-breaker' lockdowns save Europe from a second coronavirus wave?
The goal is to prevent the coronavirus from spreading with shorter shutdowns than those that were imposed last spring.