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Top Eight

Top eight CNS stories for today including President-elect Joe Biden announced key members of his national security team and is expected to name former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen as his Treasury secretary; AstraZeneca said its Covid-19 vaccine was up to 90% effective in late-stage clinical trials; The Michigan Board of State Canvassers voted to certify the state’s election results, and more.

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Top eight CNS stories for today including President-elect Joe Biden announced key members of his national security team and is expected to name former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen as his Treasury secretary; AstraZeneca said its Covid-19 vaccine was up to 90% effective in late-stage clinical trials; The Michigan Board of State Canvassers voted to certify the state’s election results, and more.

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National

1.) President-elect Joe Biden announced key members of his national security team Monday morning, after news broke over the weekend he planned to pick Antony Blinken to serve as secretary of state. 

President-elect Joe Biden participates in a meeting with the National Governors Association's executive committee at The Queen theater, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

2.) President-elect Joe Biden is expected to name Janet Yellen, former chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, as his Treasury secretary, according to multiple reports. 

3.) The peaceful transfer of power from outgoing President Donald Trump to President-elect Joe Biden will formally begin after the head of the General Services Administration signed off on the transition process Monday.

FILE - In this June 21, 2019 file photo, General Services Administration Administrator Emily Murphy speaks during a ribbon cutting ceremony for the Department of Homeland Security's St. Elizabeths Campus Center Building in Washington. The head of the obscure federal government agency that is holding up Joe Biden's presidential transition knew well before Election Day she might have a messy situation on her hands well. Prior to Nov. 3, GSA administrator Emily Murphy held a Zoom call with Dave Barram, 77, a man who was in her shoes 20 years earlier during the contested 2000 election between George W. Bush and Al Gore. Barram said he gave her some simple advice, “If you do the right thing, then all you have to do is live with the consequences of it.’”(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

4.) Seeking points with the incoming Biden administration, General Motors announced Monday it was “committed to an all-electric future” and will abandon President Donald Trump’s effort to erase California’s longstanding ability to strictly regulate tailpipe emissions.

Morning rush hour traffic makes its way along U.S. 101 near downtown Los Angeles on Nov. 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

Regional

5.) The Michigan Board of State Canvassers voted Monday to certify the state’s election results, pouring cold water on President Donald Trump’s efforts to cast doubt on President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.

Joscha Weese, left, stands outside the Capitol building during a rally in Lansing, Mich., Saturday, Nov. 14, 2020. Michigan's elections board is scheduled to meet to certify the state's presidential election results Monday. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

6.) The Trump campaign’s attempt to have thousands of Pennsylvania mail-in ballots tossed over errors on the envelopes met defeat Monday at the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

Approximately 100 Trump supporters some with flags and signs stood across West Third Street from the Federal Building in Williamsport, Pa., for hours Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020, chanting such things as ‘Four More Years,’ ‘Black Lives Matter,’ ‘We Want Trump’ and ‘Dead People Can’t Vote.’ Attorneys for the Trump campaign organization inside the Federal Building were arguing why the state and seven county election boards were arguing should not certify the results of the general election because voters across the state were not treated the same. (John Beauge/The Patriot-News via AP)

International

7.) As the coronavirus pandemic continues to accelerate around the world, British pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca said Monday that its Covid-19 vaccine was up to 90% effective in late-stage clinical trials.

FILE - In this Saturday, July 18, 2020 file photo a general view of AstraZeneca offices and the corporate logo in Cambridge, England. AstraZeneca says late-stage trials of its COVID-19 vaccine were "highly effective'' in preventing disease. A vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford prevented 70% of people from developing the coronavirus in late-stage trials, the team reported Monday Nov. 23, 2020.(AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

8.) Pollution and greenhouse gases soared to a new record in 2020, even with the drop seen when the coronavirus pandemic rattled industrial sources this spring, weather researchers at the United Nations reported Monday.

The Dave Johnson coal-fired power plant is silhouetted against the morning sun in Glenrock, Wyo., in 2018. (J. David Ake/AP)
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