Russia Tried Interfering In 2020 Election To Help Trump

A United States inter report is claiming that Russia tried to interfere in the 2020 presidential election in hope of "denigrating" President Joe Biden and helping former President Donald Trump. Russia and Iran tried to influence the 2020 election, but China did not, according to the intel report. "Proxies linked to Russian intel" were used to push unsubstantiated claims about Biden into the mainstream." The United States intel report says "unlike 2016, we did not see persistent Russian cyber efforts to access election infrastructure." 

The United States is expected to unveil sanctions related to the election interference as soon as next week. 

The United States death tool tops 536,000 with almost 30 million cases. Biden hits the road to tout the covid relief package and highlights aid to small businesses in Pennsylvania. 

A study shows that the Astrazeneca vaccine "did not show protection" against South African variant. The World Health Organization meets to discuss the Astrazeneca vaccine as more European countries pause their rollout. A EU officials is saying it's "firmly convinced" that the benefits of the Astrazeneca vaccine outweigh the risks as multiple countries pause their rollout of the vaccine. 

According to the CDC, vaccines that have been administered in the United States hits a new high with an average of more than 2.4 million doses a day. 

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