Blastoff. China launches an unmanned spacecraft to the moon. Aiming to bring back rocks from the lunar surface must not have, although he continues on tuesday, captain has been left out of the cattle, get ready to face at camp we start this news. I have us where president elect joe biden. After weeks of delay and uncertainty is formally beginning, his transition to the white house, the head of the General Services administration has designated biden as the apparent winner of this months president ial election that clears the way for the transition to get underway. Donald trump has refused to concede defeat, or the rawest his administration to start the process, but hes promised to keep up the legal fight, insisting without evidence that the election was quote, corrupt bidens team has welcomed the move, which frees up millions of dollars for his new administration, it can now work with federal officials on a coronavirus response, as well as a National Security strategy. Now, serious par
Battling on the u. S. President elect joe biden plans to reveal more of his cabinet choices within hours after his transition to the white house formally began, the head of a Government Agency responsible for this process is finally acknowledged by the apparent winner of the election and reports from washington d. C. This is the letter president elect. Joe biden has been waiting for, giving him the federal resources he needs to begin putting his administration in place. Trump loyalists. Emily murphy had delayed for weeks, but monday in this letter. She says she decided on her own, not the biden was going to be president , but that he can start planning in case he is us president tweeted out. He gave her permission to move forward, adding their own case strongly continues. We will keep up the good fight, but almost all of his legal cases have been quickly thrown out of court. I do think that he did have some interesting legal cases that he could have brought in a lot of these really clo
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Hundreds of thousands of lives. Thailand was one of the first countries to report an infection outside china. But the death toll remains relatively low. As of the end of may 2020, 3,081 people had been infected and 57 had died. The rate of infections have dropped below 10 on most days. But while the number of infections declined, the number of people who have lost their jobs continues to rise. In thailand, a predominantly buddhist country, monks are among those standing up to help people in need. This temple near bangkok has handed out thousands of meals to people who have lost their jobs while maintaining social distancing measures. It has been two months since a state of emergency was declared. We follow the lives of those struggling to survive the coronavirus crisis. Day two of the state of emergency. This bangkok bus terminal is one of thailands main travel gateways. At the entrance, staff are disinfecting passengers and taking temperatures. Thailand chose to carry out a soft lockd
Follows violence over the disputed region of nagano cutback a previous truce reached a week ago failed to hole. In the u. S. President donald trump is campaigning in 2 swing states his 1st stop was in michigan and is now headed to wisconsin the pressure is on as his democratic challenger joe biden is leading in Many National polls with less than 3 weeks to go before the election john hendren has more from washington. Hes been playing defense all across the map in florida georgia and iowa hes been campaigning those are all states that he should have handily in his column by now but National Polls show him behind across the u. S. The latest poll i saw said 12 Percentage Points behind joe biden and hes also behind in key battleground states those include michigan in wisconsin the 2 states that hes going to now so he has been aggressive there speaking very much like hes on the steroids that he was on just days ago when he tested positive for the coronavirus standing in front of the air for