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Trump vetoes military spending bill, setting up standoff with GOP lawmakers

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A poisonous Superfund site scorched by wildfire is wakeup call to a quiet, growing danger

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Victims' families in Iraq furious over Trump's Blackwater pardons

the year in Pictures

See the most powerful and inspiring images of 2020

These images capture the pain, grief, rage, resilience, loneliness and even hope that defined a watershed year.

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Iran behind pro-Trump 'hit list' of U.S. election officials, FBI says

Andrew Yang files paperwork for New York City mayoral bid

Dozens of anti-gay groups are making money off Amazon's charity platform

Powerful winter storm will bring snow, high winds and heavy rain just in time for the holiday week

U.K. supermodel Stella Tennant dies at 50

THINK: Opinion, analysis, essays

Netflix's 'Midnight Sky' is supposed to be lyrical and melancholic — but something's off

NORAD is tracking more than Santa this year. It's showing kids how Covid spreads.

Israel-Morocco deal is Trump's latest distortion. And it could bring war, not peace.

Chicago police video of Anjanette Young should shock America. It doesn't shock Chicago.

Latest news on the pandemic / Follow live

'Slower than expected': Covid vaccines are not being given as quickly as projected

Zoom lifting 40-minute call limit on Christmas, New Year holidays

Houston-Oklahoma City game postponed after James Harden breaks NBA Covid rules

Los Angeles County hospitals losing control as Covid-19 cases rise

Top videos

The making of a Christmas concert during a pandemic

Kirk Cameron holds Christmas caroling event to protest stay-at-home order

Inside the effort to provide mental health care to migrant families

Struggling with mental health during the pandemic? These tips may help

Editors' picks

As Trump meets with QAnon influencers, the conspiracy theory's adherents beg for dictatorship

After permit approved for whites-only church, small Minnesota town insists it isn't racist

Why the Russian hack is so significant, and why it's close to a worst-case scenario

Congress passes bill to require carbon monoxide detectors in public housing

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Trump blasts Covid relief bill just passed by Congress, demands changes

After permit approved for whites-only church, small Minnesota town insists it isn't racist

Trump pardons former campaign adviser George Papadopoulos, ex-GOP congressmen and others

As Trump meets with QAnon influencers, the conspiracy theory's adherents beg for dictatorship

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'A New York Christmas Wedding': Holiday film takes on 'queerness, ethnicity and culture'

Dozens of anti-gay groups are making money off Amazon's charity platform

N.C. wedding venue turns away lesbian couple, citing 'Christian values'

Decade after 'don't ask, don't tell' repeal, 'hurtful' legacy remains

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How Black churches survived 2020

Body camera video released in fatal Texas police shooting of Joshua Feast

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