The Dow Jones industrial average lost 148 points to close at 30069. On Wall Street today, stocks had a choppy session. And a Chinese spacecraft is ready to return with samples from the moon, as this animation shows. It's the first to retrieve rocks from below an asteroid's surface. A Japanese capsule came down safely in the Australian Outback on Sunday. Two robotic spacecraft are making headlines with historic cargoes. The U.S., the European Union and much of Latin America rejected the results. The opposition mostly boycotted the vote. Sunday's elections handed Maduro's socialist allies a landslide victory in the national congress. In Venezuela, President Nicolas Maduro has extended his power over the only government body under opposition control. Meanwhile, federal judges dismissed separate lawsuits by a Trump ally to overturn the results in Michigan and Georgia. Georgia's secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, made the announcement today, after a recount requested by the Trump campaign. The top elections official in Georgia has recertified the state's results and once again confirmed president-elect Biden's victory there. Biden said he will announce his choices for attorney general and secretary of defense this week. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health will also be chief medical adviser on COVID-19. Rochelle Walensky will be director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Becerra would be the first Latino in that role. He's nominating California's Attorney General Xavier Becerra to be secretary of Health and Human Services. President-elect Joe Biden today announced his selections to oversee the pandemic and health care in general. Mayor Bill de Blasio cited low infections in the classroom. But, in New York City, elementary schools reopened, something many parents had clamored for.
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