Snow, rain, floods in America’s Christmas forecast; more Trump pardons; Andrew Yang running for mayor
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AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary
Pakistani Christians wear Santa Claus suits during a celebrations for Christmas, in Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020.
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AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File
In this Feb. 5, 2020, file photo, Democratic presidential candidate and entrepreneur Andrew Yang speaks during the New Hampshire Youth Climate and Clean Energy Town Hall, in Concord, N.H.
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AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File
In this Thursday, June 27, 2019 file photo, Paul Manafort arrives in court in New York. President Trump's former campaign manager is to be arraigned on state mortgage fraud charges.
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Channi Anand
A street vendor sells colorful balloons ahead of Christmas in Jammu, India, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020. Though Hindus and Muslims comprise a majority of the population in India, Christmas is a national holiday celebrated with much fanfare. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
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Cecilia Fabiano
A medical staff member tends to patient at the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit of the San Filippo Neri Hospital in Rome, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020 as the country is grappling with a second surge of COVID-19 after a dramatic drop over the summer in daily caseloads. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)
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Patrick Semansky
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, prepares to receive his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at the National Institutes of Health, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020, in Bethesda, Md. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool)
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Mahmoud Illean
Israeli police shoot a water cannon towards ultra-Orthodox Jewish men blocking the road during a demonstration in Jerusalem, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
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Patrick Semansky
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, gestures after receiving his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at the National Institutes of Health, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020, in Bethesda, Md. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool)
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Frank Augstein
Manchester City's Aymeric Laporte, centre, heads the ball to score his team's fourth goal during the English League Cup quarterfinal soccer match between Arsenal and Manchester City at Emirates Stadium, London, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
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Luis Campos
Farmworkers throw rocks at police trying to remove them from the Pan-American South Highway as they protest the Agricultural Promotion Law in the Barrio Chino neighborhood of Peru's Ica province, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020. Farmworkers are demanding better pay and protesting clauses in a law that exempts them from benefits given to other workers, including annual bonuses and paid vacation. (AP Photo/Luis Campos)
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Marco Trovati
France's Alexis Pinturault speeds down the course during an alpine ski, men's World Cup slalom in Madonna di Campiglio, Italy, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati)
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Carolyn Kaster
President-elect Joe Biden arrives to speak at The Queen Theater in Wilmington, Del., Tuesday, Dec 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Zul Trionggono Edoardo
Police officers escort French national Rayan Jawad Hendri Bitar, center, as he is shown to the media during a news conference at the Regional Police headquarters in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020. Indonesian police said Wednesday that they have arrested the Frenchman for allegedly possessing illegal guns and drugs on the resort island. (AP Photo/Zul Trionggono Edoardo)
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Steve Conner
Nevada defensive back EJ Muhammad (4) reaches for the ball after it was tipped in to the air on a pass by Tulane during the first half of the Idaho Potato Bowl NCAA college football game, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020, in Boise, Idaho. Nevada intercepted the ball on the play. (AP Photo/Steve Conner)
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Kathy Willens
Brooklyn Nets forward Kevin Durant (7) shoots as Golden State Warriors forward Kelly Oubre Jr., (12) defends during the first quarter of an opening night NBA basketball game, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
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Eugene Hoshiko
A woman waves from a bus carrying passengers from the Diamond Princess cruise ship as they are transported from the port in Yokohama, near Tokyo on Feb. 20, 2020. The passengers had been quarantined on the cruise ship to curb the spread of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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Julio Cortez
A protester carries a U.S. flag upside down as he walks past a burning building in Minneapolis on May 28, 2020, during a protest over the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed a knee into his neck for several minutes. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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Petros Giannakouris
Migrants flee from the second fire in two days at the overcrowded Moria refugee camp on the island of Lesbos, Greece, on Sept. 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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Antonio Calanni
Martina Papponetti, 25, a nurse at the Humanitas Gavazzeni Hospital in Bergamo, Italy, poses for a portrait at the end of her shift on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic on March 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)
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Andrew Harnik
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, appears at a news conference about the coronavirus at the White House in Washington on April 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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Ben Curtis
Swarms of desert locusts fly into the air from crops in Katitika village in Kenya's Kitui county on Jan. 24, 2020. In the worst outbreak in a quarter-century, hundreds of millions of the insects swarmed into Kenya from Somalia and Ethiopia, destroying farmland and threatening an already vulnerable region. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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Damian Dovarganes
Sneakers and a Los Angeles Lakers jersey with the number 8 worn by NBA star Kobe Bryant hang at a memorial for Bryant in Los Angeles on Feb. 2, 2020, a week after he was killed in a helicopter crash. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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Felipe Dana
One-year-old Yazan has his oxygen mask removed after heart surgery at the Tajoura National Heart Center in Tripoli, Libya, on Feb. 27, 2020. Yazan's perilous trek from his small desert hometown culminated in a five-hour surgery. He is one of 1,000 children treated by Dr. William Novick's group since it first came to Libya after the 2011 uprising. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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Patrick Semansky
President Donald Trump holds a Bible as he stands outside St. John's Church across Lafayette Park from the White House in Washington on June 1, 2020, after law enforcement officers used tear gas and other riot control tactics to forcefully clear peaceful protesters from the area. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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Ramon Espinosa
Cuban singer Cimafunk hugs a woman during a music conga through the streets of Cuba's Old Havana neighborhood during the 35th Havana International Jazz Festival on Jan. 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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Leo Correa
A reveler dressed in a Spider-Man costume strikes a pose at the "Ceu na Terra" or Heaven on Earth street party in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Feb. 22, 2020, during the Carnival celebration. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
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Mark Lennihan
Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein leaves court in New York on Jan. 10, 2020, after attending jury selection for his sexual assault trial. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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Emilio Morenatti
Francisco Espana looks at the Mediterranean sea from a promenade next to the Hospital del Mar in Barcelona, Spain, on Sept. 4, 2020. After 52 days in the hospital's intensive care unit due to the coronavirus, Francisco was allowed by his doctors to spend almost ten minutes at the seaside as part of his recovery therapy. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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Paul Sancya
Men carry rifles near the steps of the State Capitol building in Lansing, Mich., on April 15, 2020, during a protest over Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's orders to keep people at home and businesses locked during the coronavirus outbreak. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
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Alex Brandon
President Donald Trump holds a press conference about the coronavirus at the White House in Washington on April 13, 2020. At left is Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Mark J. Terrill
Lanes are empty on the 110 Arroyo Seco Parkway that leads to downtown Los Angeles on April 26, 2020, as California remains on lockdown to avoid the spread of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
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Jacquelyn Martin
Grandchildren of Joanne Paylor, of southwest Washington, react to doves released during the interment ceremony for Paylor at Lincoln Memorial Cemetery in Suitland-Silver Hill, Md. on May 3, 2020. Although Paylor did not die from the coronavirus, almost every aspect of her funeral was affected by the pandemic. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Matt Rourke
A protester in an Elmo mask dances as a street fire burns on May 30, 2020, during a protest in Philadelphia over the death of George Floyd, a Black man who was killed while in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Evgeniy Maloletka
An elderly woman suffering from COVID-19 breathes with the help of an oxygen mask in a hospital in Pochaiv, Ukraine, on May 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
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Brynn Anderson
Yasmine Protho, 18, wears a photo of herself and "Class of 2020" on her protective mask amid the COVID-19 virus outbreak as she graduates with only nine other classmates and limited family attending at Chattahoochee County High School in Cusseta, Ga., on May 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
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Daniel Cole
A girl rides a scooter past the Saint-Tronc Castelroc primary school playground, closed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, in Marseille, France, on May 14, 2020. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)
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Wong Maye-E
A protester and a police officer shake hands in the middle of a standoff during a rally in New York on June 2, 2020, calling for justice over the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died under the knee of a white police officer in Minneapolis on May 25. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
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Emilio Morenatti
A patient rests in a chair next to his bed at the COVID-19 ward at a hospital in Barcelona, Spain, on Nov. 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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Evan Vucci
People protest in the rain near the White House in Washington on June 4, 2020, over the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died in Minneapolis after a white police officer pressed a knee into his neck for several minutes. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Manish Swarup
A health worker takes a nasal swab of a person for a COVID-19 test at a hospital in New Delhi, India, on July 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
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Emilio Morenatti
Musicians rehears at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Spain, on June 22, 2020. When the doors opened for the performance of Puccini's "Crisantemi" by the UceLi Quartet, the 2,292 seats of the auditorium were occupied by plants and the performance was broadcast live online. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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Brynn Anderson
Ga Breedlove pauses by the casket of Rep. John Lewis lying in repose at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta on July 29, 2020. Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, died on July 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
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Wilfredo Lee
Richardson Fremond leaps over a wall as he runs to collect an award during the Chambers High School graduation ceremony at Homestead-Miami Speedway in Homestead, Fla., on June 23, 2020. The ceremony was held at the race track to enable social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic and the 41 seniors who graduated crossed the start-finish line to receive their diplomas. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
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Evan Vucci
President Donald Trump speaks in the rain during a campaign rally at Capital Region International Airport in Lansing Mich., on Oct. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Jacquelyn Martin
Walter Carter, 74, of Woodbridge, Va., who attended the original March on Washington, attends 2020's March on Washington at the Lincoln Memorial on Aug. 28, 2020, the 57th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech. "This march is a celebration anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington," says Carter, "and the issues are very similar even though so much time has passed." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Noah Berger
Embers light up a hillside behind the Bidwell Bar Bridge on Sept. 9, 2020, as the Bear Fire burns in Oroville, Calif., in this photo taken with a slow shutter speed. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
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Michael Probst
A parkour runner jumps on a railway bridge with the buildings of the banking district in background in Frankfurt, Germany, on Sept. 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
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Carolyn Kaster
Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden smiles as he puts on his face mask after speaking to media in Wilmington, Del., on Sept. 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Hussein Malla
Black smoke rises from a warehouse fire at the Port of Beirut, Lebanon, on Sept. 10. 2020, triggering panic among residents traumatized by the massive explosion that killed and injured thousands of people the month before. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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John Locher
Supporters of President Donald Trump protest the Nevada vote in front of the Clark County Election Department in Las Vegas on Nov. 4, 2020. (AP Photo/John Locher)
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Steve Helber
Protesters with shields and gas masks wait for police action as they surround the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va., on June 23, 2020. The state ordered the area around the statue closed from sunset to sunrise, but the protesters had no plans to disperse. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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Julio Cortez
This image shot from a drone shows a reddish tint along the shore of the Great Salt Lake in Howell, Utah, on Oct. 8, 2020. The red hue of the north arm of the lake comes from a type of bacteria, known as halophilic bacteria, that flourishes when the salt level rises. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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Jessica Hill
Voters mark their ballots at First Presbyterian Church in Stamford, Conn., on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
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Carolyn Kaster
President-elect Joe Biden leans toward the cheering crowd, past the edge of protective glass on stage, on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Jacquelyn Martin
People shoot off fireworks in Washington's Black Lives Matter Plaza while celebrating president-elect Joe Biden's win over President Donald Trump to become the 46th president of the United States on Nov. 7, 2020. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Santi Palacios
Migrants from Morocco and Bangladesh wait on an overcrowded wooden boat for aid workers from the Spanish search and rescue group Open Arms off the Libyan coast on Jan. 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Santi Palacios)
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Vianney Le Caer
A model wears a creation for the Givenchy fashion collection during Women's fashion week Fall/Winter 2020/21 presented in Paris on March 1, 2020. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)
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Jerome Delay
South African National Defense Forces patrol the Men's Hostel in the densely populated Alexandra township east of Johannesburg on March 28, 2020, enforcing a strict lockdown in an effort to control the spread of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
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Esteban Felix
Protesters storm the San Francisco de Borja church, which belongs to the Carabineros, Chile's national police force, in Santiago, Chile, on Oct. 18, 2020, the first anniversary of the start of anti-government mass protests over inequality. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
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Ghaith Alsayed
An emergency crew recovers the body of a boy killed in a government airstrike in the city of Idlib, Syria on Feb. 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
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Andreea Alexandru
A woman wearing a mask to protect against infection from COVID-19 is reflected in a tinted chapel window, along with a metal casing said to contain the remains of St. Dimitrie of Basarabov, the patron saint of the Romanian capital, in Bucharest, Romania on Oct. 25, 2020. The feast of St. Dimitrie of Basarabov, which usually lasts for a week and draws up to 100,000 people, was cut way back this year due to the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)
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Emilio Morenatti
Josefa Ribas, 86, who is bedridden and suffers from dementia, is attended to by nurse Laura Valdes during a home care visit in Barcelona, Spain, on April 7, 2020. Ribas' husband, Jose Marcos, fears what will happen if the coronavirus enters their home and infects them. "I survived the post-war period (of mass hunger). I hope I survive this pandemic," he said. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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Fareed Khan
Rescue workers and local residents search for survivors in the wreckage of a plane that crashed with nearly 100 people onboard in a residential area of Karachi, Pakistan, on May 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
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Emilio Morenatti
People stand in their balconies during a nationwide confinement to counter the coronavirus in Barcelona, Spain on March 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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Jacquelyn Martin
President Donald Trump arrives at a campaign rally in Toledo, Ohio, on Jan. 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Ebrahim Noroozi
Arif Mirbaghi plays a double bass in his backyard during mandatory self-isolation to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in Tehran, Iran, on April 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
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Damian Dovarganes
A homeless person sits in a wheelchair during rainy weather on Sunset Blvd. in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles on April 6, 2020. California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an emergency order in mid-March to spend $150 million to help the homeless during the pandemic. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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Ng Han Guan
A child wearing a mask to protect against the coronavirus rests on the bank of the Yangtze River in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on April 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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Ringo H.W. Chiu
A protester poses for photos next to a burning police vehicle in Los Angeles on May 30, 2020, during a demonstration over the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died in Minneapolis after a white police officer pressed a knee into his neck for several minutes. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)
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Aaron Favila
A family evacuates to safer ground as the Taal Volcano spews ash in Lemery, Batangas, southern Philippines on Jan. 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
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Bernat Armangue
A trail of dust kicked up by a race car rises from the landscape during stage two of the Dakar Rally, between Al Wajh and Neom, Saudi Arabia on Jan. 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
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Altaf Qadri
Balconies are illuminated with candles and torches to mark the country's fight against the coronavirus in Greater Noida, a suburb of New Delhi, India, on Sunday, April 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
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Emilio Morenatti
Workers move a coffin with the body of a victim of COVID-19 as other coffins are stored waiting for burial or cremation at the Collserola morgue in Barcelona, Spain, on April 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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Lee Jin-man
Cori "Coco" Gauff of the U.S. makes a forehand return to Romania's Sorana Cirstea during their second round singles match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, on Jan. 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
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John Minchillo
Workers wearing personal protective equipment bury bodies in a trench on Hart Island in the Bronx borough of New York on April 9, 2020. Hart Island is a strip of land in Long Island Sound that has long served as the city's potter's field. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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Oded Balilty
Jackals roam in the night in Tel Aviv's Hayarkon Park, which is empty as the city is in lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, on April 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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Oded Balilty
Members of the Israeli Mermaid Community swim with mermaid tails at the beachfront in Bat Yam, near Tel Aviv, Israel, on May 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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Rodrigo Abd
A worker wearing protective gear cleans a window as a nurse tends to a patient inside the intensive care unit for people infected with the coronavirus at the 2 de Mayo Hospital in Lima, Peru, on April 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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Francisco Seco
A woman bangs a pot in support of medical staff who are working on the front lines of the COVID-19 outbreak during a partial lockdown against the spread of the coronavirus in Brussels on March 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
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Manish Swarup
A health worker tends to her colleague, who fainted due to exhaustion at a COVID-19 testing camp in New Delhi, India on April 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
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Evan Vucci
Marine One carrying U.S. President Donald Trump flies to Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum on Jan. 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Ebrahim Noroozi
Women clerics wearing protective clothing and "chador," a head-to-toe garment, arrive at a cemetery to prepare the body of a person who died from COVID-19 for a funeral, in Ghaemshahr, Iran, on April 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
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David Goldman
An image of U.S. Navy veteran Stephen Kulig is projected onto the home of his daughter, Elizabeth DeForest, as she looks out the window of a spare bedroom while her husband, Kevin, sits downstairs, in Chicopee, Mass., on May 3, 2020. Kulig, a resident of the Soldier's Home in Holyoke, Mass., died from COVID-19 at the age of 92. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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Brian Inganga
A police officer holds a pistol during clashes with protesters near a barricade of burning tires in the Kariobangi slum of Nairobi, Kenya, on May 8, 2020. Hundreds of protesters blocked one of the capital's major highways to protest government demolitions of the homes of more than 7,000 people, causing many to sleep out in the rain and cold because of restrictions on movement due to the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
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Felipe Dana
Cacique Pedro poses for a photo as he sits outside his house in the "Park of Indigenous Nations" community in Manaus, Brazil, on May 10, 2020. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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Dolores Ochoa
A worker from the city's forensic department in Quito, Ecuador, sprays disinfectant over the body of a woman who died on the street on May 14, 2020. Forensic workers at the scene conducted a COVID-19 rapid test and said the woman tested negative. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
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Rodrigo Abd
The body of Ricardo Noriega, 77, lies on the floor of his living room in Lima, Peru, on May 4, 2020, after he died of COVID-19. Noriega had great difficulty in breathing, one of the most characteristic symptoms of the disease, and waited for death sitting in an armchair in the living room after he was unable to find a taxi to take him to the hospital that morning. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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Leo Correa
A patient who died from COVID-19 lies on a table between two other patients infected with the coronavirus at the Salgado Filho Municipal Hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on May 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
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Rodrigo Abd
Relatives pour beer into the tomb of Victor Gaspar, who died of COVID-19, during his burial at the Nueva Esperanza cemetery on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, on May 28, 2020. (AP Photo Rodrigo Abd)
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Alex Brandon
President Donald Trump smiles during a visit to Mount Rushmore National Memorial near Keystone, S.D., on July 3, 2020. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Rodrigo Abd
Teodoro Mejia, left, watches workers from the Piedrangel funeral home remove the body of his wife, Berta Cusi Palomino, from their home in Lima, Peru, May 14, 2020. Palomino was believed to have died from COVID-19. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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John Minchillo
People demonstrate outside a burning Arby's fast food restaurant on May 29, 2020, in Minneapolis during a protest over the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed a knee into his neck for several minutes. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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John Minchillo
Motorists are ordered to the ground from their vehicle by police on May 31, 2020, during a protest in Minneapolis over the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed a knee into his neck for several minutes. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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John Locher
Lisa Varmbo Martonovich, left, and Nicole England-Czyzewski practice an aerial routine for "Gladius The Show," a touring equestrian and acrobatic show, on May 28, 2020, in Las Vegas. The coronavirus forced the producers to cancel all of their performances through 2020. (AP Photo/John Locher)
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Mike Stewart
Police officers and protesters clash in Atlanta on May 29, 2020, during a protest in response to George Floyd's death in police custody in Minneapolis. Floyd, a Black man, died after a white police officer pressed a knee into his neck for several minutes even after he stopped moving and pleading for air. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
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Matias Delacroix
Men with inner tubes wade through an abandoned highway tunnel with the aid of a safety line as they work to repair a self-created water system in the Esperanza neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela, on June 11, 2020. Water service in Venezuela has gotten so bad that poor neighborhoods have started to rig private water systems or hand dig shallow wells. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
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Emilio Morenatti
Agustina Canamero, 81, and Pascual Perez, 84, hug and kiss through a plastic film screen to avoid contracting the coronavirus at a nursing home in Barcelona, Spain, on June 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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Rodrigo Abd
Siblings, from left, Estiben, Estefany and Javier Aquino eat dinner illuminated by a candle in their home in the Nueva Esperanza neighborhood, which has no access to electricity, in Lima, Peru, on June 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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Patrick Semansky
President Donald Trump, returning from a campaign rally in Tulsa, Okla., walks across the South Lawn of the White House in Washington after stepping off the Marine One helicopter, early Sunday, June 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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Oded Balilty
Contestants exercise backstage during the National Amateur Body Builders Association competition in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Aug. 19, 2020. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, this year's competition was staged outdoors and the 85 participants were required to don protective masks in line with health codes. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
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Alexander Zemlianichenko
Father Vasily Gelevan, a Russian Orthodox priest, blesses Lyudmila Polyak, 86, who is believed to be suffering from COVID-19, at her apartment in Moscow. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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Esteban Felix
Peruvian migrant Jose Collantes cries as cemetery workers bury his wife Silvia Cano, who he says died of COVID-19, at a Catholic cemetery in Santiago, Chile, on July 3, 2020. Collantes said he preferred to cremate her in order to take the ashes home with him but, due to bureaucracy, had already been waiting two weeks. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
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Marcio Jose Sanchez
Demonstrators push on a fence as tear gas is deployed during a Black Lives Matter protest at the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse in Portland, Ore., on July 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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Rodrigo Abd
Cemetery workers carry the coffin of a person who died of COVID-19 for burial at the Martires 19 de Julio cemetery in Comas, on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, on July 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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Jacquelyn Martin
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, left, wears a mask for protection against the coronavirus, along with members of security, as he rides the Senate Subway between meetings on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Matt Slocum
People flee from police officers after running out the back of a store carrying shoes in Upper Darby, Pa., on May 31, 2020, following protests over the death of George Floyd, a Black man who was killed by a police officer in Minneapolis on May 25. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
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Alvaro Barrientos
Athletic Club and Real Madrid play during their Spanish La Liga soccer match at the San Manes stadium, which is nearly empty, in Bilbao, Spain, on July 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
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Petros Giannakouris
Projector operator Pavlos Lepeniotis checks the quality of movie film inside a warehouse at the Zephyros open-air cinema, which specializes in films from past decades, in Ano Petralona, central Athens, on June 3, 2020. Lepeniotis has worked in movie theaters since age 12. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
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Sunday Alamba
Muslim girls walk down the street after prayers in Lagos, Nigeria, on July 31, 2020, as Muslims worldwide marked the start of Eid al-Adha, or "Feast of Sacrifice," in which Muslims slaughter livestock and distribute the meat to the poor. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
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Jae C. Hong
With the seats at Dodger Stadium empty, Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Julio Urias throws to a San Francisco Giants batter during the third inning of a baseball game on July 26, 2020, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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Wong Maye-E
People wait to ride a revolving swing at the Perry State Fair in New Lexington, Ohio, on July 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)
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Jae C. Hong
Romelia Navarro, 64, weeps while hugging her husband, Antonio, in his final moments in a COVID-19 unit at St. Jude Medical Center in Fullerton, Calif., on July 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
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Hassan Ammar
Hoda Kinno, 11, is evacuated by her uncle Mustafa on Aug. 4, 2020, shortly after a massive explosion at the port in Beirut, Lebanon. The Kinno family from Syria's Aleppo region was devastated in the wake of the explosion — Hoda suffered a broken neck and other injuries and her sister Sedra, 15, died in the explosion. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
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Rodrigo Abd
Relatives accompany the coffin that contains the remains of Jose Barbaran, who is believed to have died from complications related to the coronavirus, as they travel by boat on Peru's Ucayali River on Sept. 29, 2020. Despite the risk, family members decided to travel by night to Barbaran's hometown of Palestina, a four-hour journey. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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Martin Mejia
Jhona Zapata, whose clown name is "Jijolin," is reflected in the window of a home as he offers caramelized apples for sale, in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, on Aug. 5, 2020. Zapata, 35, is selling circus food to help his family survive the economic shutdown while circuses are closed to curb the spread of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)
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Natacha Pisarenko
Fernanda Mariotti poses for a photo with a picture of her mother, Martha Pedrotti, who died of COVID-19, at her home in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Aug. 11, 2020. Although Mariotti insisted on seeing her mother at the hospital, the doctor refused to allow it. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
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Eduardo Verdugo
A woman wearing a protective face mask amid the coronavirus pandemic dances in a client's home in Mexico City on Aug. 8, 2020. The pandemic has forced businesses to adapt to a new normality and the adult entertainment industry is no exception. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)
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Jorge Saenz
A road divides the Cerro Lagoon, where the water at right is colored and the Waltrading S.A. tannery stands on the bank, top right, in Limpio, Paraguay, on Aug. 5, 2020. According to Francisco Ferreira, a technician at the National University Multidisciplinary Lab, the color of the water is due to the presence of heavy metals like chromium, commonly used in the tannery process. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
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Rodrigo Abd
Olinda Tafur, 20, lies on an examination table as she waits to be seen by an obstetrician inside a tent set up in the emergency area of the National Perinatal and Maternal Institute to receive women in labor who are infected with COVID-19, in Lima, Peru, on July 29, 2020. Just before giving birth to her first child, Tafur learned that she had tested positive for the new coronavirus upon arriving with labor pains to the emergency area of the Institute. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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Hassan Ammar
Injured people are evacuated shortly after a massive explosion at the port in Beirut, Lebanon, on Aug. 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
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Natacha Pisarenko
Blanca Ortiz, 84, celebrates after learning from nurses that she will be dismissed from the Eurnekian Ezeiza Hospital, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Aug. 13, 2020, several weeks after being admitted with COVID-19. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
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Noah Berger
Thomas Henney, left, and Charles Chavira watch a plume of smoke spread over Healdsburg, Calif., as wildfires burn nearby on Aug. 20, 2020. Deadly wildfires in California more than doubled the previous record for the most land burned in a single year in the state. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
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Noah Berger
Bill Nichols, 84, works to save the home he has lived in for 77 years as a wildfire tears through Vacaville, Calif., on Aug. 19, 2020. Dozens of wildfires were sparked by lightning strikes during a statewide heat wave. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
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Sakchai Lalit
Tents of food stalls and other vendors are illuminated at Rot Fai Market in Bangkok, Thailand, on June 19, 2020, as the government continues to ease restrictions that were imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)
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David Goldman
An explosive device detonates as a protester pushes back on an armored vehicle clearing the park of demonstrators during clashes outside the Kenosha County Courthouse late Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020, in Kenosha, Wis. Protests have erupted following the police shooting of Jacob Blake two days earlier. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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Marco Ugarte
Monserrat Medina Zentella attends school via the internet from her home in Mexico City on Aug. 24, 2020, amid the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
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Susan Walsh
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway prepares to tape her speech for the third day of the Republican National Convention in Washington on Aug. 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Two women kiss under an old Belarusian national flag as opposition supporters gather near the Independence Palace in Minsk, Belarus, on Aug. 30, 2020. (AP Photo)
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Juan Karita
Wearing masks to curb the spread of the coronavirus, the Delgado family poses for a photo in their workshop in El Alto, Bolivia, on Aug. 28, 2020. The five children, from ages 6 and 14, work all day in the family's small carpentry workshop with their parents. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
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Rafiq Maqbool
A health worker arrives to screen people for symptoms of COVID-19 on Sept. 4, 2020, in Dharavi, one of Asia's biggest slums, in Mumbai, India. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
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Salvador Melendez
Imprisoned gang members, wearing protective face masks, sit inside a group cell during a media tour of the prison in Quezaltepeque, El Salvador, on Sept. 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)
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Noah Berger
Residents of the Oakmont Gardens senior home evacuate on a bus as the Shady Fire approaches in Santa Rosa Calif., on Sept. 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
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Tony Avelar
People in kayaks paddle in McCovey Cove outside Oracle Park in San Francisco during a baseball game between the San Francisco Giants and the Seattle Mariners on Sept. 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar)
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Rodrigo Abd
Family members peer into the coffin that contains the remains of Manuela Chavez, who died from symptoms related to the coronavirus at the age of 88, during a burial service in the Shipibo indigenous community of Pucallpa, in Peru's Ucayali region, on Aug. 31, 2020. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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Esteban Felix
Reflected in the rearview mirror, Jose Collantes gets a hug from 5-year-old daughter Kehity while they're stopped at a red light, as Jose drives her home from a playdate in Santiago, Chile, on Sept. 6, 2020, three months after they lost his wife, her mother, to COVID-19. Their case highlights how COVID-19 deaths the world over are often the beginning of a new personal journey for those affected. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
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John Locher
Shayanne Summers holds her dog Toph while wrapped in a blanket on Sept. 13, 2020, after staying several days in a tent at an evacuation center at the Milwaukie-Portland Elks Lodge in Oak Grove, Ore. Summers evacuated from near Molalla, Ore., which was threatened by the Riverside Fire. (AP Photo/John Locher)
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Daniel Cole
A patient afflicted with COVID-19 lies on a bed in a hospital in Marseille, France, on Sept.10, 2020. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)
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Khalil Hamra
A Palestinian woman wearing a face mask to prevent the spread of the coronavirus waits in a bus in Gaza City to go to the Rafah border crossing into Egypt on Sept. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
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Thibault Camus
Colombia's Harold Tejada climbs Plateau des Glieres during the stage 18 of the Tour de France cycling race over 175 kilometers (108.7 miles) from Meribel to La Roche-sur-Foron, France, on Sept. 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
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Jason Behnken
New Orleans Saints cornerback Marshon Lattimore, right, knocks the ball away from Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Mike Evans in the end zone on a fourth down during the second half of an NFL football game on Nov. 8, 2020, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Jason Behnken)
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Brynn Anderson
Mary Faye Cochran, 86, sings "You Are My Sunshine" over the phone to her son Stacey Smith through a window on Mother's Day, Sunday, May 10, 2020, at Provident Village at Creekside senior living in Smyrna, Ga. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
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Andre Penner
A volunteer tries to douse a fire on Transpantaneira road in the Pantanal wetlands near Pocone, Mato Grosso state, Brazil, on Sept. 11, 2020. The number of fires in Brazil's Pantanal, the world's biggest tropical wetlands, more than doubled in the first half of 2020 compared to the same period last year, according to data released by a state institute. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)
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Aaron Favila
A health worker wearing a protective suit is disinfected in a portable tent outside the Gat Andres Bonifacio Memorial Medical Center in Manila, Philippines, on April 27, 2020, during an enhanced community quarantine to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
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Andrew Harnik
Jill Biden moves her husband, Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden, back from members of the media as he speaks outside his campaign plane in New Castle, Del., on Oct. 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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Carolyn Kaster
Supporters cheer from their cars as Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden appear on a huge monitor and fireworks light up the night sky on the fourth day of the Democratic National Convention in Wilmington, Del., on Aug. 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Frank Augstein
Rafael Nadal of Spain serves to Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece during their tennis match at the ATP World Finals tennis tournament at the O2 arena in London on Nov. 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
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John Locher
A supporter of President Donald Trump holds her hand over her heart during a protest of the election outside of the Clark County Election Department in North Las Vegas on Nov. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/John Locher)
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Matt Slocum
Former President Barack Obama speaks at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia as he campaigns for Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden on Oct. 21, 2020. (AP Photo/ Matt Slocum)
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Dmitry Lovetsky
Smoke and flame rise from a burning house in an area once occupied by Armenian forces but soon to be turned over to Azerbaijan, in Karvachar, the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, on Nov. 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
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Ramon Espinosa
A man wearing a face mask as a precaution against the spread of the coronavirus runs along the Malecon seawall under the rain in Havana, Cuba, on Oct. 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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Sergei Grits
A family drives a truck loaded with a small house along a highway as they leave their home village in the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh on Nov. 18, 2020, before a cease-fire takes effect to halt weeks of fighting. Under the Russia-brokered agreement, Armenia will turn over control of some areas it holds outside the separatist territory's borders to Azerbaijan, and Armenians there will be forced to leave their homes. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
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Tatan Syuflana
Plainclothes police officers detain demonstrators in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Oct. 8, 2020, during a protest against a new law they say will cripple labor rights and harm the environment. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)
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Dmitry Lovetsky
Medical workers transport a wounded man in a hospital during shelling by Azerbaijan's artillery in Stepanakert, in the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, on Oct. 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)
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Leo Correa
A supporter of presidential candidate Kouadio Konan Bertin jumps a fence as he arrives at Bertin's final campaign rally in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on Oct. 29, 2020, ahead of the Oct. 31 election. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
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Natacha Pisarenko
Police carry out an eviction at a squatters camp in Guernica, Buenos Aires province, Argentina, on Oct. 29, 2020. A court ordered the eviction of families who have been squatting here since July, but the families say they have nowhere to go amid the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
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Ramon Espinosa
Wearing masks and plastic gloves to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, girls raise their hands during class in Havana, Cuba, on Monday, Nov. 2, 2020. Tens of thousands of school children returned to class Monday in Havana for the first time since April. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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Jacquelyn Martin
Former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for President Donald Trump, speaks during a news conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington on Nov. 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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Darko Bandic
Rescuers search for survivors in the debris of a collapsed building in Izmir, Turkey, on Nov. 2, 2020, three days after a deadly earthquake struck the area. Two girls were dug out alive from the rubble of collapsed apartment buildings. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)
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Aziz Karimov
The father of 7-year-old Aysu Isgandarova, who died during shelling by Armenian forces in the struggle over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, mourns during her funeral in Garayusifli, Azerbaijan, on Oct. 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Aziz Karimov)
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Hani Mohammed
A malnourished girl, Rahmah Watheeq, receives treatment at a feeding center at Al-Sabeen hospital in Sanaa, Yemen, on Nov. 3, 2020. Two-thirds of Yemen's population of about 28 million people are hungry, and nearly 1.5 million families currently rely entirely on food aid to survive, with another million people expected to fall into crisis levels of hunger before the year's end, according to aid agencies working in Yemen. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)
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Seth Wenig
New York Police officers block off the north entrance to Washington Square Park in New York after facing off with protestors on Nov. 4, 2020, the day after the U.S. general election. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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Natacha Pisarenko
Soccer fans gather outside Clinica Olivos, where former soccer star Diego Maradona will undergo surgery, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Nov. 3, 2020. Widely regarded as one of the greatest soccer players of all time, Maradona died on Nov. 25. He was 60. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
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Brynn Anderson
An election worker examines ballots as vote counting in the general election continues at State Farm Arena in Atlanta on Nov. 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
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Sergei Grits
A man with an Armenian national flag visits the 12th-13th century Orthodox Dadivank Monastery on the outskirts of Kalbajar, in the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, on Nov. 13, 2020. Under an agreement ending weeks of intense fighting over the Nagorno-Karabakh region, some Armenian-held territories, such as this area, will pass to Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
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Emilio Morenatti
Wearing protective suits to avoid infection, funeral home workers remove the body of an elderly person who died of COVID-19 at a nursing home while another resident sleeps in his bed in Barcelona, Spain, on Nov. 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
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Chris Pizzello
Billie Eilish poses in the press room with the awards for best album and best pop vocal album for "We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?", best song and record for "Bad Guy" and best new artist at the 62nd annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Center on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Jordan Strauss
Ariana Grande arrives at the 62nd annual Grammy Awards at the Staples Center on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2020, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
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Jordan Strauss
The year started out like any other, with a parade of awards shows that culminated with Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” making history by being crowned best picture at the Academy Awards.
It was one of the last normal nights in Hollywood, and well, everywhere.
Multiplexes and movie palaces shut down, Broadway stages went dark, red carpets remained rolled up and stars stayed home as the coronavirus pandemic ground life to a halt.
Joaquin Phoenix, left, and Rooney Mara arrive at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
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Chris Pizzello
Bong Joon Ho, right, reacts as he is presented with the award for best picture for "Parasite" from presenter Jane Fonda at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Looking on from left are Song Kang-Ho and Kwak Sin Ae. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Sunday Alamba
Ballet student Anthony Mmesoma Madu, center, dances in the street as fellow dancers look on in Lagos, Nigeria on Aug. 18, 2020. Cellphone video showing the 11-year-old dancing barefoot in the rain went viral on social media. Madu's practice dance session was so impressive that it earned him a ballet scholarship with the American Ballet Theater in the U.S. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
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Chris Pizzello
Masked crew members style host Kelly Clarkson during a commercial break at the Billboard Music Awards, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Chris Pizzello
Host Taraji P. Henson speaks from an empty at the Microsoft Theater at the American Music Awards on Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Chris Pizzello
A makeshift memorial for the late actress Naya Rivera is pictured at Lake Piru, Monday, Aug. 3, 2020, in Los Padres National Forest, Calif. The 33-year-old Rivera, who played on the television series "Glee," was found dead in Lake Piru on July 13, five days after her son, Josey, was found alone there on a boat the two had rented. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Chris Pizzello
Pedestrians look up at a mural by artist Shane Grammer of the late actor Chadwick Boseman's character T'Challa from the 2018 film "Black Panther," Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020, in Los Angeles. Boseman died August 28 at age 43 after a four-year battle with colon cancer. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Taimy Alvarez
J Balvin performs for the 21st Latin Grammy Awards, airing on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020, at American Airlines Arena in Miami. (AP Photo/Taimy Alvarez)
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Chris Pizzello
Lizzo, left, and Sheila E air kiss onstage at the Billboard Music Awards on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2020, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Taylor Jewell
Lin-Manuel Miranda poses for a portrait to promote the film "Siempre, Luis" at the Music Lodge during the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2020, in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP)
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Christophe Ena
A model checks herself in a mirror backstage prior to the Franck Sorbier Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2020 fashion collection presented Tuesday Jan. 21, 2020 in Paris. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
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Vianney Le Caer
Model Kaia Gerber wears a creation from the Givenchy fashion collection during Women's fashion week Fall/Winter 2020/21 presented in Paris, Sunday, March 1, 2020. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)
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Chris Pizzello
Musician Ringo Starr poses in front of his "Peace and Love" public sculpture on his 80th birthday, Tuesday, July 7, 2020, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Vianney Le Caer
Lizzo laughs as she arrives at Brit Awards 2020 in London, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP)
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Victoria Will
Mickey Guyton is photographed during a remote portrait session with the photographer in New York and subject in Los Angeles on Aug. 3, 2020. (Photo by Victoria Will/Invision/AP)
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Chris Pizzello
Jeff Baena, third from left, writer/director of "The Little Hours," and his girlfriend, cast member Aubrey Plaza, pose with cast members, from left, Alison Brie and her husband, Dave Franco; Fred Armisen; and Kate Micucci before a screening of the film presented by ArcLight Cinemas at the Vineland Drive-In theater, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020, in Industry, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Chris Pizzello
Singer/songwriter Teyana Taylor poses for a portrait to promote her new release "The Album," Wednesday, June 17, 2020, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Victoria Will
In this June 8, 2020 photo, singer-songwriter Norah Jones poses for a portrait in upstate New York to promote her latest album "Pick Me Up Off the Floor." (Photo by Victoria Will/Invision/AP)
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Rebecca Cabage
In this June 13, 2020 photo, singer-songwriter John Legend appears during a photo session at The Bel Air Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., to promote his latest album "Bigger Love." (Photo by Rebecca Cabage/Invision/AP)
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Richard Shotwell
Country music fans dance as Tracy Lawrence performs at Concerts In Your Car at the Ventura County Fairgrounds on Friday, Aug. 21, 2020, in Ventura, Calif. (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
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Charles Sykes
The Christian Siriano collection is modeled at Siriano's home as part of New York Fashion Week, Thursday, Sept. 17, 2020, in Westport, Conn. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)
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Domenico Stinellis
Guests wear face masks and sit at a safe distance as they follow the opening ceremony of the 77th edition of the Venice Film Festival at Venice Lido, Italy, Wednesday, Sep. 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
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Chris Pizzello
Actors/comedians Lil Rel Howery, left, and Tiffany Haddish pose together at the Stand-Up for Social Justice rally outside the Laugh Factory Hollywood comedy club, Friday, June 12, 2020, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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John Locher
Scarlett Johansson arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/John Locher)
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Chris Pizzello
Paris Jackson poses for a portrait, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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Joel C Ryan
Tilda Swinton poses for photographers with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 77th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)
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Rebecca Cabage
Finneas O'Connell poses for a portrait on Friday, Dec. 4 2020, in Los Angeles. O'Connell was named one of The Associated Press' Breakthrough Entertainers of 2020. (Photo by Rebecca Cabage/Invision/AP)
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Chris Pizzello
Tracee Ellis Ross gets a coronavirus test as she arrives for the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards at Staples Center, Sunday, Sept. 20, 2020, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
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1950 — Cleveland’s Otto Graham throws four touchdown passes, despite icy footing in Municipal Stadium, and Lou Groza kicks a 16-yard field goal with 28 seconds left to give the Browns a 30-28 victory over the Los Angeles Rams and the NFL title in their first year in the league.
In this Dec. 8, 1953, file photo, Cleveland Browns coach Paul Brown checks the protective mask of his quarterback Otto Graham.
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1961 — George Blanda’s 35-yard touchdown pass to Billy Cannon gives the Houston Oilers a 10-3 victory over the San Diego Chargers for their second AFL title.
George Blanda, star quarterback for the Houston Oilers, throws the ball during practice in Houston, Texas, Dec. 22, 1961. Blanda was named American Football League Player of the Year. (AP Photo)
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1967 -- New York’s Joe Namath becomes the first player to throw for 4,000 yards in a season. Namath passes for 343 yards and four touchdowns to lead the Jets to a 42-31 win at San Diego. Namath finishes the year with 4,007 yards.
Joe Namath, quarterback of the New York Jets, inspects new double-barred face mask, left, he will wear when he faces the San Diego Chargers. The helmet he usually wears is at right. (AP Photo)
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2000 — Baltimore sets an NFL record for fewest points allowed in a 16-game schedule. The Ravens allow 165 points, easily breaking the mark of 187 by the 1986 Chicago Bears.
Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis (52) celebrates the Ravens scoring a safety on the New York Jets during the second quarter of the Ravens' 34-20 win, Sunday, Dec. 24, 2000, at PSINet Stadium in Baltimore, Md.(AP Photo/Nick Wass)
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2006 — Colt Brennan sets the NCAA single-season record for touchdown passes at 58, throwing five in the second half to lead Hawaii to a 41-24 victory over Arizona State in the Hawaii Bowl. Brennan, 33-of-42 for 559 yards, breaks the previous mark of 54 set by Houston’s David Klingler in 1990.
Hawaii's Colt Brennan celebrate following a 41-24 win at the Sheraton Hawaii Bowl college football game against Arizona State, in Honolulu, Sunday, Dec. 24, 2006. (AP Photo/Ronen Zilberman)
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2006 — Atlanta’s Michael Vick becomes the first NFL quarterback to rush for 1,000 yards in a season. Needing only 10 yards to reach the mark, he gains 17 on his first carry on the Falcons’ opening possession. Morten Andersen’s 539th career field goal, a 40-yarder, gives the 46-year-old Falcons kicker the NFL record, passing Gary Anderson for the career mark.
Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick runs for a first down during the first quarter of a football game against the Carolina Panthers in Atlanta, Sunday, Dec. 24, 2006. Vick became the first quarterback in the NFL to rush for 1000 yards in a season on the play. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
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2011 — Denver’s Willis McGahee becomes the second NFL player to reach 1,000 yards rushing with three teams. McGahee has 64 yards rushing in a 40-14 loss to the Buffalo Bills, to give him 1,054 this season. He previously did it with Buffalo and Baltimore. Ricky Watters rushed for 1,000 yards with San Francisco, Philadelphia and Seattle.
Denver Broncos' Willis McGahee (23) runs against the Buffalo Bills during the first quarter of an NFL football game in Orchard Park, N.Y., Saturday, Dec. 24, 2011. (AP Photo/David Duprey)
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2016 — Miami’s Jay Ajayi rushes for 206 yards and breaks loose for a 57-yarder in overtime to set up Andrew Franks’ 27-yard field goal with 47 seconds left to lead the Dolphins past Buffalo 34-31. Ajayi is the fourth player in NFL history to have at least three games with at least 200 rushing yards in a season. Earl Campbell, O.J. Simpson, Tiki Barber are the others.
Miami Dolphins running back Jay Ajayi (23) is tackled by Buffalo Bills defensive end Kyle Williams (95) and cornerback Ronald Darby (28) during the first half of an NFL football game Saturday, Dec. 24, 2016, in Orchard Park, N.Y. (AP Photo/Bill Wippert)
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2016 — With a 41-3 rout of the New York Jets, Bill Belichick earns his 200th regular-season victory in New England, making him the fifth coach in NFL history to reach the milestone with one team.
Fans make photos of New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick as he leaves the field after an NFL football game against the New York Jets, Saturday, Dec. 24, 2016, in Foxborough, Mass. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
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2016 — Cleveland survives a last-second field-goal attempt and gets its first victory after 14 losses by beating the San Diego Chargers 20-17. When San Diego’s Josh Lambo misses a 45-yard field-goal attempt as time expires, the Browns (1-14) gets their first win in 377 days.
Cleveland Browns' Tank Carder celebrate the Browns first NFL football game win of the season by defeating the San Diego Chargers 20-17, Saturday, Dec. 24, 2016, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Aaron Josefczyk)
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Actor Amaury Nolasco is 50.
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Actor Anil Kapoor (ah-NEEL’ kuh-POOR’) is 61.
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Federal health official Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., is 80.
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Actor Austin Stowell is 36.
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Actor Diedrich Bader is 54.
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The former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai (HAH’-mihd KAHR’-zeye), is 63.
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Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is 74.
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Rock singer Louis Tomlinson (One Direction) is 29.
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Actor Mark Valley is 56.
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Rock singer Mary Ramsey (10,000 Maniacs) is 57.
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Recording company executive Mike Curb is 76.
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Singer Ricky Martin is 49.
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TV personality Ryan Seacrest (TV: “Live With Kelly & Ryan”) is 46.
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In 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces in Europe as part of Operation Overlord.
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In 1968, the Apollo 8 astronauts, orbiting the moon, read passages from the Old Testament Book of Genesis during a Christmas Eve telecast.
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In 1980, Americans remembered the U.S. hostages in Iran by burning candles or shining lights for 417 seconds — one second for each day of captivity.
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In 1992, President Bush pardoned former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and five others in the Iran-Contra scandal.
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In 1993, the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale, who blended Christian and psychiatric principles into a message of “positive thinking,” died in Pawling, New York, at age 95.
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Ten years ago: Pope Benedict XVI ushered in Christmas Eve with an evening Mass amid heightened security concerns following package bombings at two Rome embassies and Christmas Eve security breaches at the Vatican the previous two years.
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In 2014, Sony Pictures broadly released “The Interview” online — an unprecedented counterstroke against the hackers who’d spoiled the Christmas opening of the comedy depicting the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
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Five years ago: Christian faithful from around the world descended on the biblical city of Bethlehem for Christmas Eve celebrations as an outburst of Israeli-Palestinian violence dampened the typically festive mood.
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Five years ago: California Gov. Jerry Brown pardoned Robert Downey Jr. for a nearly 20-year-old felony drug conviction that sent the Oscar-nominated actor to jail for nearly a year.
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In 2016, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused President Barack Obama of a “shameful ambush” at the United Nations and said he was looking forward to working with his “friend” Donald Trump; Netanyahu’s comments came a day after the U.S. broke with past practice and allowed the Security Council to condemn Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.
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One year ago: Democratic presidential contender Michael Bloomberg said he had cut ties with a contractor that used prisoners to make calls for his presidential campaign.
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One year ago: With the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris unable to host Christmas services for the first time since the French Revolution because of damage from a fire earlier in the year, the clergy, choir and congregation relocated to a Gothic church next to the Louvre Museum for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day services.
Today is Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020. Let’s get caught up.
These headlines are in the news this morning: There’s snow up north, flash flood warnings in the East; Trump pardons more allies; Andrew Yang files to run for New York City mayor.
Read on for these stories, other top headlines, celebrity birthdays and more.
Top stories
Winter storm in Dakotas, Minnesota; flooding possible across Eastern US
A storm that began with snow, strong winds and bitter cold into the eastern Dakotas and western Minnesota early Wednesday and began moving east was making travel treacherous and grounded flights on one of the most anticipated air travel days since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
Blizzard warnings were posted in the region as National Weather Service officials called for wind chills to dip to 35 F (2 C) below zero, pushed by gusts of more than 60 mph (96.5 kph). Numerous travel advisories urged motorists to stay off the road and several highways were shut down altogether.
Heavy rain and flash flooding are possible today all across the eastern U.S., and areas hit by last weekend’s winter storm are at a higher risk due to snow melt.
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New round of Trump clemency benefits Manafort, other allies
President Donald Trump pardoned more than two dozen people, including former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Charles Kushner, the father of his son-in-law, in the latest wave of clemency to benefit longtime associates and supporters.
The actions, in Trump’s waning time at the White House, bring to nearly 50 the number of people whom the president has granted clemency in the last week. The list from the last two days includes not only multiple people convicted in the investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia but also allies from Congress and other felons whose causes were championed by friends. Read more:
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Andrew Yang files paperwork to run for New York mayor
Former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang has filed paperwork to participate in New York’s 2021 mayoral race, according to city records.
Yang’s name appears on a list from the New York City Campaign Finance Board of candidates for the city’s 2021 elections. CNN reported last week that Yang, a former tech executive, was planning to mount a bid for the mayor’s office in the coming weeks. Read more:
In other news today …
- President Donald Trump on Wednesday vetoed the annual defense policy bill, following through on threats to veto a measure that has broad bipartisan support in Congress and potentially setting up the first override vote of his presidency.
- Negotiators from the European Union and Britain worked through the night and into Christmas Eve to put the finishing touches on a trade deal that should avert a chaotic economic break between the two sides next week.
- A late-term maneuver by President Donald Trump to use lower drug prices paid overseas to limit some of Medicare’s own costs suffered a legal setback Wednesday that appears likely to keep the policy from taking effect before the president leaves office.
- A provincial court in Pakistan on Thursday ordered the release of a British-born Pakistani man charged in the 2002 murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl, his defense lawyer said.
- A car speeding away from police Tuesday night in suburban New York City barreled into another car, splitting that vehicle in half and killing five people, officials said.
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