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Top eight stories for today including a potentially dangerous mutation of the novel coronavirus found to be spreading rapidly in the United Kingdom is causing alarm across the world; House Democrats claim Trump administration health officials tried to bury alarming information in scientific reports on the outbreak; The House and Senate are set to vote on a $900 billion coronavirus stimulus package, and more.

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Top eight stories for today including a potentially dangerous mutation of the novel coronavirus found to be spreading rapidly in the United Kingdom is causing alarm across the world; House Democrats claim Trump administration health officials tried to bury alarming information in scientific reports on the outbreak; The House and Senate are set to vote on a $900 billion coronavirus stimulus package, and more.

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National

1.) The Democratic leader of a House panel overseeing the federal government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic said Monday that Trump administration health officials tried to bury alarming information in scientific reports on the outbreak.

President Donald Trump watches as Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, holds up his face covering as he speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Wednesday, April 22, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

2.) With 30 days remaining until he is inaugurated, President-elect Joe Biden on Monday received his first dose of vaccine against Covid-19.

This screenshot from C-SPAN video shows President-elect Joe Biden getting the vaccine against the novel coronavirus on Monday, Dec. 21, in Delaware. (Image via Courthouse News)

3.) Maybe looking for a Christmas miracle, President Donald Trump petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court on another of his unsuccessful challenges to his 2020 election loss, this one focused on the law governing mail-in Pennsylvania ballots.

In this Nov. 14., 2020, file photo supporters of President Donald Trump attend pro-Trump marches outside the Supreme Court Building in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

4.) The House and Senate are set to vote late Monday on a $900 billion coronavirus stimulus package that includes direct payments to most Americans and more funding for state and local governments.  

U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree is seen at the U.S. Capitol at night after negotiators sealed a deal for COVID relief Sunday, Dec. 20, 2020, in Washington. Top Capitol Hill negotiators sealed a deal Sunday on an almost $1 trillion COVID-19 economic relief package, finally delivering long-overdue help to businesses and individuals and providing money to deliver vaccines to a nation eager for them. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana.

Regional

5.) During the pandemic, Colorado’s gone to pot. Between January and October, the Colorado Department of Revenue reported the state marijuana industry sold $1.8 billion worth of marijuana, surpassing last year’s total sales.

Signs at a cannabis dispensary on Denver’s South Broadway announce the business is open during the Covid pandemic. (Courthouse News photo / Amanda Pampuro)

6.) A restaurant owner whose viral video showed a film production’s dining area operating next to the patio she was forced to close sued California officials in federal court Sunday aiming to overturn the outdoor dining ban part of state orders meant to curb Covid-19 transmission.

Patrons eat lunch outside of Settebello Pizzeria Napoletana Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020, in Pasadena, Calif. Pasadena has become an island in the center of the nation's most populous county, where a surge of COVID-19 cases last week led to a three-week end to outdoor dining and California's first stay-home order since the pandemic began to spread across the state in March. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

International

7.) A potentially dangerous mutation of the novel coronavirus found to be spreading rapidly in the United Kingdom is causing alarm across the world and prompting countries to close off travel with Britain.

A police officer directs traffic at the entrance to the closed ferry terminal in Dover, England, Monday, Dec. 21, 2020, after the Port of Dover was closed and access to the Eurotunnel terminal suspended following the French government's announcement. France banned all travel from the UK for 48 hours from midnight Sunday, including trucks carrying freight through the tunnel under the English Channel or from the port of Dover on England's south coast. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

8.) As Covid-19 continues to plague the world, scientists on Monday revealed new insights into the now-eradicated smallpox virus and how lessons learned from it helped guide modern medicine to a vaccine for the latest virus.

This transmission electron micrograph depicts a number of smallpox virions. The "dumbbell-shaped" structure inside the virion is the viral core, which contains the viral DNA. (CDC / Dr. Fred Murphy; Sylvia Whitfield)
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