In a video posted on social media Tuesday, President Trump demanded that Congress revise its coronavirus relief bill to increase the $600 stimulus checks to $2,000 per individual. Minutes earlier, the president had announced a wave of controversial pardons, including some for his political allies. Chip Reid reports. Source Read More »

Cardona is Connecticut’s commissioner of education. Source Read More »

Top scientists believe that the high-end estimates of sea-level rise are likely not high enough. Source Read More »

President-elect Joe Biden rebuked President Trump in remarks made Tuesday, and named Miguel Cardona to be Education Secretary. Cardona is the third Latino American named to the president-elect’s Cabinet. Nikole Killion reports. Source Read More »

Dr. Tom Frieden, former CDC director and the president and CEO of global health initiative “Resolve to Save Lives” discusses the state of the coronavirus pandemic, and the nationwide effort to roll out a vaccine. He also briefly weighs in on the studies surrounding immunity to the virus. Source Read More »

Officials are imploring Americans to stay home for the Christmas holidays as coronavirus cases accelerate in states like California amid fears of a new, highly contagious strain of the virus. Mola Lenghi reports. Source Read More »

President Trump is asking Congress to amend their coronavirus relief bill, calling for $2,000 personal checks rather than the $600 included in the package. Also, U.S. deaths are expected to top 3 million this year because of the pandemic, making it the deadliest year in the nation’s history. All that and all that matters in today’s Eye Opener. Your world ... Read More »

Though it emerged independently, it features a similar mutation to the new variant discovered in the U.K. that scientists say is more transmissible. Source Read More »

Jethro DeVane says he was held at gunpoint as officers searched his home for teens who might have been breaking into cars. Source Read More »

On the “Intelligence Matters” podcast this week, Mike Morell talks with director Bryan Fogel about his latest film, which chronicles the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Source Read More »