Evening Rundown: Texas takes fire over election challenge, 300 species of sharks, rays in peril and the FDA nears vaccine approval

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Dec. 10, 2020 FDA advisory panel votes to recommend emergency use of Pfizer vaccine By Erika Edwards An independent panel of experts has overwhelmingly voted in favor of recommending that the Food and Drug Administration authorize Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use in people ages 16 and older. Read more Local newspapers fight Covid skepticism, exhaustion to report reality in small towns By Ahiza García-Hodges | Read more You get the vaccine when it's available. How do you prove it? By David Ingram | Read more Coronavirus relief negotiations reach a breaking point with time running out By Frank Thorp V, Sahil Kapur, Julie Tsirkin and Leigh Ann Caldwell | Read more 'Seditious abuse of judicial process': States fire back at Texas' Supreme Court election challenge By Rebecca Shabad, Dareh Gregorian and Josh Lederman | Read more In leaked recording, Biden says GOP used 'defund the police' to 'beat the living hell' out of Dems By Mike Memoli | Read more OPINION Mindy Kaling gave her kids non-ethnic names for the same reasons she changed her own By Ranjana Srinivasan | Read more Marquee American companies vow to hire a total of 1 million Black people over 10 years By Char Adams | Read more Young adults in NYC describe how the pandemic has impacted their mental health Watch the full video More than 300 shark, ray species threatened with extinction, new report finds By Denise Chow | Read more Get the NBC News Mobile App Follow NBC News This email was sent by: NBC News 30 Rockefeller Plaza New York, NY 10112   This is an automated email. Do not reply directly to this email. Privacy | Unsubscribe | More NBC Newsletters | Contact View in browser