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A Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine shot is ready to be administered to Vice President Mike Pence at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex, Washington, Friday, Dec. 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

U.S. Reaches Deal With Pfizer For 100 Million More Vaccine Doses

The new deal effectively doubles the federal government's order from the company. Pfizer says the U.S. government has agreed to pay $1.95 billion for the additional doses.

FILE PHOTO: Chile's Bernardo O'Higgins army base is seen at Antarctica in this undated handout photo provided by the Chilean Army on December 22, 2020. Chilean Army/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY./File Photo

The Coronavirus Has Reached Antarctica. Now It's On Every Continent

Thirty-six people stationed at the General Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme Antarctic base had tested positive for the virus, Chilean officials said this week.

Gov. Cuomo delivers a COVID-19 briefing in NYC Monday, Dec. 7, 2020. (Gov. Cuomo's Office)

Cuomo To Extend Eviction Protections For Tenants Through New Year

ALBANY, NY (WCNY) - Tenants in New York will be granted another reprieve in the new year, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday, with an extension of an…

The Gene Educator Series

Join us for a series of educator workshops based on Ken Burns' documentary The Gene: An Intimate History bringing together science, history and personal…

Hong Kong pro-democracy activist and media tycoon Jimmy Lai, center, walks out a court with his lawyers after being bailed out in Hong Kong, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020. Lai has been granted bail, nearly three weeks after he was remanded in custody over fraud and national security-related charges. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Hong Kong Democracy Activist Jimmy Lai Released On Bail

The media tycoon was arrested nearly three weeks ago for allegedly violating the terms of his office lease. He was subsequently charged under China's new Hong Kong national security law.

FORT DRUM, NEW YORK - DECEMBER 10: U.S. Army soldiers return from a 9-month deployment to Afghanistan on December 10, 2020 at Fort Drum, New York. The soldiers who arrived this week are under orders to isolate at home or in barracks, finishing their COVID-19 quarantine just before Christmas. The troops were replaced in Afghanistan by a smaller force, as the U.S. military continues to reduce troop levels Afghanistan. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Trump Vetoes Defense Bill, Setting Up Congressional Vote To Potentially Override Him

President Trump has vetoed the annual defense bill, which has won congressional approval 60 years straight. Now, Congress will move to override that veto.

FILE - This combination made from file photo shows Blackwater guards, from left, Dustin Heard, Evan Liberty, Nicholas Slatten and Paul Slough. On Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020, President Donald Trump pardoned 15 people, including Heard, Liberty, Slatten and Slough, the four former government contractors convicted in a 2007 massacre in Baghdad that left more a dozen Iraqi civilians dead and caused an international uproar over the use of private security guards in a war zone. (AP Photo/File)

Shock And Dismay After Trump Pardons Blackwater Guards Who Killed 14 Iraqi Civilians

"We were surprised that the American president issued a decision to pardon these criminals, murderers and thugs," says an Iraqi man who was shot in the 2007 massacre at Baghdad's Nisour Square.

Millions Of Christmas Gifts May Arrive Late Due To Overload At The Postal Service

"We're really busy. It's been unbearable," sighed Manny Huenchunir, a Postal Service truck driver who was unloading and reloading crates of mail at a post office outside Boston on Tuesday night.

Residents from St. Joseph's Senior Home are helped onto buses in Woodbridge, N.J., Wednesday, March 25, 2020. More than 90 residents of the nursing home are being transferred to a facility in Whippany after 24 tested positive for COVID-19, according to a spokeswoman for CareOne, which operates the Whippany facility. The facility has moved its residents to other facilities to accommodate the new arrivals. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

The Tragedy Of 'St Joe's'

Back in March, a coronavirus outbreak at St. Joseph's Senior Home in Woodbridge, New Jersey, led state officials to evacuate all 78 of its residents. Within weeks, nearly half of them were dead.

What Does The New COVID-19 Variant In The U.K. Mean For Americans?

A look at the week's COVID-19 and vaccine news, including new information from the variant out of the United Kingdom.

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