Donner Party survivors’ ill-fated journey to be re-created

Four veteran ultrarunners from Northern California are setting out on snowshoes to retrace the footsteps of the pioneers who braved the worst blizzard in a century to escape over the top of what’s now called Donner Pass through the Emigrant Gap northwest of Lake Tahoe.

CARTOON: The science delivers

The United States begins COVID-19 vaccination distribution under Operation Warp Speed.

 
Biden calls on Trump to concede

President-elect Joe Biden called on President Donald Trump to concede Monday night, after all 50 states cast their Electoral College votes, showing Biden the winner of the 2020 election.

AG William Barr resigning, effective ‘just before Christmas’

President Trump has publicly expressed his anger about Barr’s statement that the Justice Department had found no widespread election fraud that would change the outcome of the election.

Another attempt to recall Sisolak fails

The latest in a series of attempts to recall Gov. Steve Sisolak has fallen well short of the number of signatures needed to initiate a vote to remove the state’s top executive.