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President-elect Joe Biden, and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, were named Person of the Year for 2020 byTime. Andrew Harnik/AP hide caption
St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, right, is the city's first Black circuit court attorney. On Thursday a circuit court judge disqualified her and her staff from prosecuting the case against Mark McCloskey. St. Louis Post-Dispatch/Tribune News Service via Getty Images hide caption
Gen. Charles Q. Brown smiles at a White House swearing-in ceremony for the post of chief of staff of the Air Force. Doug Mills/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Lisa Taylor got a COVID-19 vaccination in August as part of a vaccine study at Research Centers of America in Hollywood, Fla. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption
White House correspondent Maggie Haberman says President Trump, shown here in Miami on Nov. 2, 2020, is driven by a quest for power. "Almost everything about Donald Trump for 50 years at this point has been about power and dominance," she says. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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A panel of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration meets Thursday to evaluate Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine and make recommendations on emergency use to the agency. Jacquelyn Martin/AP hide caption
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Dynamite raises clouds of dust above Guadalupe Canyon, near the New Mexico-Arizona border. The Diamond A Ranch, which is located next to the construction site, has sued the government, claiming the blasting has sent "car-sized boulders tumbling down onto ranch property." John Kurc hide caption
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Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai, seen here before a court hearing in September, has been formally charged under China's controversial new national security law. Isaac Lawrence/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Dec. 2, New Hampshire House Speaker Dick Hinch speaks during an outdoor legislative session at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, N.H. Hinch died of COVID-19 Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020, just a week after he was sworn in as leader of the state's newly Republican-led Legislature. He was 71. Elise Amendola/AP hide caption
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Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., who chairs the House's panel on the coronavirus, warned that if the Department of Health and Human Services failed to produce all missing documents by Dec. 15, the panel "will have no choice but to issue subpoenas to compel production." Kevin Lamarque/AP hide caption
David Smith (left) and Kenneth Felts in Denver in 2013, the year their friendship began. Felts told Smith that before he came out as gay this year, "I was secretly really envying you, to be able to be yourself." Courtesy of David Smith hide caption
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The energy behind the Black Lives Matter movement this year, which included this protest in Portland, Ore., has led activists to push for changes to juvenile justice practices. Paula Bronstein/AP hide caption
Workers at the CARECEN Day Labor Center in Los Angeles constructed a makeshift memorial for fellow worker Paulino Ramos, who died of COVID-19 in September. Danny Hajek/NPR hide caption
My trauma ebbs and flows. When these emotions demand to be felt, I respond with a click of a shutter or the scratching of a pen. Rosem Morton hide caption
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Lucky searches a tree for spotted lanternfly eggs. The insects often lay them in hard-to-reach places. Caroline Gutman hide caption
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is the world's wealthiest person, according to the latest Bloomberg Billionaires Index, with a net worth of $186 billion. Four others also have fortunes over $100 billion. Here, Bezos speaks at a conference in 2018. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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Robyn (voiced by Honor Kneafsey) heads into the woods in the animated film Wolfwalkers. Apple TV+ hide caption
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A swastika sticker on a statue at the Idaho Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial in Boise, Idaho. The vandalism took place sometime between Monday evening and Tuesday morning, Boise Police said. Wassmuth Center for Human Rights via AP hide caption
The Pazo de Meiras, seen here in September, has been turned over to the Spanish state by the heirs of Gen. Francisco Franco. The summer palace in Sada, in the region of Galicia, had been the subject of a contentious lawsuit won by the Spanish government. M.Dylan/AP hide caption
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