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• Expert advisory panel approves emergency use of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine.
• Republican senators stall on a bipartisan coronavirus relief package.
• President-elect Biden meets with civil rights leaders.
• 18 state’s join Texas lawsuit to nullify Joe Biden’s electoral victory for president.
• Coronavirus infections continue to soar, mark highest daily rate 3,100 infections.
• Rent strike activists rally in Oakland, target corporate landlords evicting people.
• Oscar Grant’s family demand Alameda County District Attorney charge officer involved in Grant’s killing.
• Family of Ohio black man shot dead by sheriff deputy speak out.

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