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December 15, 2020 10:03 p.m.

Biden's challenge: Creating a COVID-19-free White House

WASHINGTON (AP) — Three blocks from the White House, office space for more than 500 Biden transition staffers sits mostly idle. The government is shipping out laptops so staffers can work from home. President-elect Joe Biden, surrounded by just a handful of aides in Delaware, is using Zoom to oversee his plans to assume power.

December 15, 2020 9:33 p.m.

A pandemic atlas: South Africa acts quickly, dodges disaster

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — At a popular cafe in Johannesburg's Soweto area, owner Benedict Somi Vilakazi liked to tell foreign visitors how nearby Vilakazi Street was named after his grandfather, who defied racial discrimination to become one of South Africa's first Black university lecturers.

December 15, 2020 9:33 p.m.

A pandemic atlas: Early success, growing concern in Germany

BERLIN (AP) — For a time, Germany seemed to have solved the puzzle of how to quell COVID-19.

December 15, 2020 9:33 p.m.

A pandemic atlas: Spanish system fails, and the elderly die

MADRID (AP) — Patiently lining up, distanced, to buy bread. Watching grandchildren grow via screens. Cheering for a soccer team miles away from the stadium. Gathering for dinner, in reduced groups, at 7 p.m. — early enough so the party can be wrapped before curfew hits.

December 15, 2020 9:33 p.m.

A pandemic atlas: USA by the numbers, telling and horrifying

Month after dismal month, Americans have been inundated by an ever-rising tide of devastating numbers. Hundreds of thousands of deaths. Tens of million unemployed.

December 15, 2020 9:33 p.m.

A pandemic atlas: Nations ran the gamut in their response

The nations of the world ran the gamut in their responses to the COVID-19 pandemic — sometimes veering from strict to lax measures in the course of just a few months, and vice versa. A look at the state of the pandemic around the globe:

December 15, 2020 9:33 p.m.

AP News in Brief at 12:04 a.m. EST

Turning the page? Republicans acknowledge Biden's victory

December 15, 2020 9:32 p.m.

A pandemic atlas: Peru's death toll leaves a grieving nation

Each day at the height of the pandemic in Peru, Ronald Marín visited a crowded, dusty cemetery to offer final prayers for dozens of victims of COVID-19, their coffins wrapped in plastic like suitcases preparing for a flight.

December 15, 2020 9:32 p.m.

A pandemic atlas: Italy becomes Europe's viral epicenter

ROME (AP) — On the morning of Feb. 20, Dr. Annalisa Malara went to work at the public hospital in tiny Codogno, Italy, and broke protocol by ordering up a coronavirus test for a patient.

December 15, 2020 9:18 p.m.

A pandemic atlas: China's state power crushes COVID-19

BEIJING (AP) — Workers have returned to factories, students are back in the classroom and once again long lines form outside popular hot pot restaurants. In major cities, wearing a surgical mask — though no longer required outside of subways and other crowded places — has become a habit.

December 15, 2020 9:18 p.m.

A pandemic atlas: Masks key to keeping Japan's caseload low

TOKYO (AP) — The COVID-19 pandemic came by ship to Japan in February — a foreboding harbinger for a world that had not yet come to grips with the disaster to come.

December 15, 2020 9:18 p.m.

A pandemic atlas: India struggles to save lives, economy

NEW DELHI (AP) — India is caught between two calamities — a relentless pandemic that is ravaging the country and a hollowed-out economy that is without precedent.

December 15, 2020 9:18 p.m.

A pandemic atlas: No longer in viral denial, Iran struggles

At the start, Iranian officials downplayed COVID-19 — denying the mounting toll of infections, refusing to close mosques, making half-hearted gestures at locking down businesses.

December 15, 2020 9:18 p.m.

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December 15, 2020 8:31 p.m.

AP Interview: Flattening curve wasn’t enough for New Zealand

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand this year pulled off a moonshot that remains the envy of most other nations: It eliminated the coronavirus.

December 15, 2020 8:31 p.m.

AP News in Brief at 11:04 p.m. EST

Turning the page? Republicans acknowledge Biden's victory

December 15, 2020 5:27 p.m.

The Latest: Kansas mayor resigns over mask mandate threats

KANSAS — A western Kansas mayor announced Tuesday that she is resigning, effective immediately, because of threats she has received after she publicly supported a mask mandate.

December 15, 2020 5:08 p.m.

Stanford wins at CSU Northridge behind da Silva's 32 points

NORTHRIDGE, Calif. (AP) — Oscar da Silva scored a career-high 32 points and grabbed nine rebounds to help Stanford beat Cal State Northridge 82-71 on Tuesday.

December 15, 2020 5:07 p.m.

The Latest: California distributes 5,000 body bags to areas

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California is distributing 5,000 body bags mostly to the hard-hit Los Angeles and San Diego areas and has 60 refrigerated trailers standing by as makeshift morgues in anticipation of a surge of coronavirus deaths.

December 15, 2020 5:06 p.m.

The Latest: US acting defense secretary gets virus vaccine

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller was among the first Cabinet members to get the vaccine. He traveled to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., on Monday and was given the first dose of Pfizer-BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine.