The Washington Post explains why it’s looking unlikely that Democrats will pass the president’s nearly $2 trillion spending package ahead of the holidays.

Waves of star athletes are testing positive for the coronavirus, disrupting games. ESPN reports on new COVID protocols being introduced by the NFL and NBA.

Claudette Colvin was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her bus seat for a white person — nine months before Rosa Parks’s act of defiance. Nearly 70 years later, Colvin’s record has finally been cleared. She talks to CBS News.

Are brain surgeons and rocket scientists smarter than the rest of us? Not necessarily, according to a new study. The Guardian has the story.