UNEWS, Top stories for U.S. Latinos in English

Pfizer announces it will seek FDA authorization for its Covid-19 vaccine saying a final analysis confirmed the vaccine is 95% effective; governors and mayors across the US enact stricter measures to curb the rapid spread of the virus, the nation is now averaging 145,000 daily new infections; President Trump fires DHS official who rebuked false claims of voter fraud; the Trump campaign files for a partial recount in Wisconsin after his campaign suffers a series of legal defeats; and millions of Central American residents today are surveying the damage caused by Hurricane Iota.

The US is averaging 145,000 daily covid cases so governors across the US are ratcheting up Covid-19 restrictions amid the record-shattering spike of the virus; President-elect Joe Biden is warning of dire consequences if President Trump continues refusing to coordinate with his transition team on the covid pandemic; President Trump’s lawsuit in Pennsylvania heads to court today as his campaign is trying to stop the state from certifying election results.

There’s no evidence that votes were compromised in last week’s election according to a coalition of federal and state officials as President Trump continues refusing to concede the election; a growing number of Republican senators are calling on the Trump administration to start giving Biden intelligence briefings, a sign that support for the president may be waning; the coronavirus pandemic is reaching crisis levels with more than 150,000 new cases reported on Thursday alone, the highest single-day total; false claims that Trump’s political rivals are attempting a coup are spreading on Spanish-language social media.

President Trump continues raising unsupported claims of ballot counting abuses as key Republicans and the State Secretary continue backing the president; the US hit a record number of Covid hospitalizations on Tuesday and surpassed 1 million new infections in just the first 10 days of November; President Trump visits Arlington National Cemetery to commemorate Veterans Day, his first public appearance since last Thursday; and Border Patrol agents take a break to savor Mexican food purchased through the fence separating both nations.

President Trump refuses to concede blocking officials from cooperating with President-elect Joe Biden’s team and Attorney General Barr authorizing the DOJ to probe unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud; Pfizer says its experimental Covid-19 vaccine was found to be more than 90% effective, as the nation reaches five days in a row of 100,000 cases a day or more; the Supreme Court hears arguments on the legality of the Affordable Care Act, now appears the two conservative justices are unwilling to strike down the entire law.

Joe Biden edges closer to 270 as Pres. Trump fights for his political life; Pres. Trump continues attacking the integrity of the election; and another record-breaking day for new coronavirus cases in the U.S.

Unrest around the U.S. as vote tallies in battleground states remain pending in the presidential election; Trump campaign begins legal challenges contesting vote counts in several key states; and the U.S. sets another single-day coronavirus record.

The 2020 presidential election is now coming down to Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, Joe Biden slightly ahead of Donald Trump, but many more ballots still remain uncounted; President Trump in an early morning address claims voter fraud without evidence, says he’ll ask the Supreme Court to intervene; health experts warn that self-isolating after voting in person might be a good idea as covid cases continue rising across the nation; and a woman catches a last minute flight from New York City to Miami so she can vote in person after her absentee ballot never arrives in the mail.

President Trump and former VP Joe Biden charged across several battle ground states in a final push to get out the vote; nearly 100 million early votes have already been cast and election officials are bracing for a drawn out counting process; coronavirus cases rising in 47 states as the White House Coronavirus Task Force coordinator urged officials to take more aggressive containment measures; and officials in Mexico are investigating allegations of unwanted hysterectomies conducted on immigrant women held in US detention centers.

President Trump and Joe Biden have one last chance to make their case to voters in critical battleground states today the final full day of a campaign; in Texas 127,000 ballots already cast could be tossed in Democratic-leaning Harris County; President Trump suggests he may fire Dr. Anthony Fauci during a campaign rally as the coronavirus crisis in the nation grows worse.