Dec. 3 (UPI) -- President-elect Joe Biden tapped Brian Deese, a former Obama senior adviser, to be the director of the National Economic Council, the transition team announced Thursday.

Dec. 3 (UPI) -- A suspected African serval was captured in Florida, and officials are working to positively identify the feline's species and determine its origins.

Dec. 3 (UPI) -- House Oversight Committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney warned Thursday of a subpoena for census documents after finding that data problems could delay the count into February.

Dec. 3 (UPI) -- Federal lawmakers have approved a punitive measure to delist Chinese companies from U.S. stock markets if they deny government regulators access to vital audits.

Dec. 3 (UPI) -- American Airlines is the first carrier to returned the Boeing 737 Max to the skies, flying employees and executives this week in a bid to restore public confidence in the troubled model.

Dec. 3 (UPI) -- The South African Lottery Commission said an internal investigation confirmed no fraud occurred in a drawing that came up with the numbers 5-6-7-8-9-10.

Dec. 3 (UPI) -- A New York woman whose hair measures 8.07 inches high, 8.85 inches wide and a staggering 4 feet, 10 inches in circumference was awarded a Guinness World Record for the largest Afro hairstyle.

Dec. 3 (UPI) -- A wallaroo -- a hybrid of a kangaroo and a wallaby -- escaped from its owner's Illinois home and ended up being rescued from the Illinois River.

Dec. 3 (UPI) -- More than two-thirds of all teen and young adult e-cigarette users in the United States curtailed the habit or quit since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a study published by JAMA Network Open.

Dec. 3 (UPI) -- The Trump administration has turned up economic pressure on China by barring U.S. imports of cotton products that it says are made through forced labor by detained Uighur Muslims.