 THE BIG STORY
Biden plans to give 50 million Americans vaccinations in his first 100 days
President-elect Joe Biden said in a speech that his administration “will help get at least 100 million COVID-19 vaccine shots into the arms of Americans in 100 days.”
His transition team later clarified that this would mean that 50 million Americans would be vaccinated — because the two most promising early vaccines require two shots per person.
Biden said coordination of the ambitious vaccination program will be “one of the hardest and most costly operational challenges in our nation's history.”
This timeline departs with Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration’s vaccine development fast-track program, which currently aims to vaccinate 100 million people by the end of February.
The president-elect reiterated that he will mandate wearing masks for his first 100 days in office wherever he has the authority to do so — places like federal grounds, and during interstate travel.  President-elect Joe Biden announces the members of his health team at the Queen Theater on Dec. 8 in Wilmington, Delaware. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images STAYING ON TOP OF THIS
The Supreme Court denied a Republican challenge to Joe Biden’s Pennsylvania win
“The application for injunctive relief presented to Justice Alito and by him referred to the Court is denied.”
That’s it. That’s the whole thing. That’s the single-sentence order with which the US Supreme Court rejected a last-ditch Republican effort to undo President-elect Joe Biden’s win in Pennsylvania.
With that sentence, the justices denied an attempt by Rep. Mike Kelly and other Republican challengers to press a challenge to a Pennsylvania law that had expanded mail-in voting in the state. No justice indicated that they had dissented.
It is merely the latest in the string of defeats for Trump and his supporters in Pennsylvania. SNAPSHOTS
Scientists still have problems with AstraZeneca and Oxford’s vaccine results. On Tuesday, Oxford became the first team leading a coronavirus vaccine trial to publish its results in a peer-reviewed journal, but scientists have questions about how the trials were conducted.
A Black man was killed by a cop. There are no witnesses, no body cameras, no cellphone videos, and only the officer’s story of what happened. To know what happened in the last moments of 23-year-old Casey Goodson Jr.'s life, his family will have to rely primarily on the account of the officer who killed him.
A woman who got COVID-19 gave birth and died without ever holding her son. Erica Becerra, 33, died of complications from the virus, two weeks after giving birth to a son she was never able to hold. Her brother told CNN, “She followed every rule in the book and she still ended up catching [the coronavirus].”
THE ART OF THE APOLOGY
Olivia Jade’s Red Table Talk is a good blueprint for her peers
Remember the college admissions scandal, from what feels like a lifetime ago? In a nutshell, a giant FBI investigation revealed that 33 wealthy parents paid around $25 million in bribes to get their children into the colleges of their choosing.
Among the parents charged was Full House’s Lori Loughlin, who was sentenced to two months in jail. One of Loughlin’s influencer daughters, Olivia Jade Giannulli, was a 19-year-old first-year student at the University of Southern California with a YouTube following of nearly 2 million.
For a year, Olivia Jade tried to change the channel on the scandal, to no avail. So this week, she went on Jada Pinkett Smith’s Red Table Talk to have another go at it.
As Scaachi Koul writes, the gambit worked. Koul notes that Olivia Jade “sits very still in a stunning pink suit and patiently, dutifully, calmly eats shit.” It’s an effective apology, because she appears to have “figured something out about the public apology tour that a lot of other famous, privileged, white young women fail to grasp.”  Olivia Jade on Red Table Talk. Facebook Watch / Via screenshot YOU WANT TO PLAY A GAME?
This grandma’s family game is the sadistic energy that holidays need
Cassi Graichen’s grandmother gets very creative with activities around the holidays. Specifically, she enjoys creating games that get her family members to compete for money.
Cassi posted a TikTok of a game her grandmother invented for Thanksgiving, called mousetraps and money. In the game, the participants are blindfolded and put in front of a table with set mouse traps and money. They have to reach down and hope they get cash instead of a snap.
As you can imagine, the TikTok quickly went viral as people enjoyed the dark energy behind the game. Cassi told us she enjoyed watching everyone play, but she didn’t play herself because “I wasn’t trying to get snapped.” Set goals that remind you of the ways you're capable today, Elamin P.S. If you like this newsletter, help keep our reporting free for all. Support BuzzFeed News by becoming a member here. (Monthly memberships are available worldwide). 📝 This letter was edited and brought to you by Brandon Hardin and BuzzFeed News. You can always reach us here. BuzzFeed, Inc.
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