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Early Addition: Looking Back At 2020 Through Remarkable Photos


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Published Dec 9, 2020


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  • The Times looks back at 2020 with some incredible photographs.
  • Donald Trump's efforts to overthrow the election results have completely failed, but he has thrown the GOP into utter chaos in the process.
  • However, Trump's baseless conspiracy theories about voting fraud has led his supporters to become even more dangerous.
  • Anti-vaxxers are already "spewing lies" about 90-year-old grandmother who got the first COVID vaccine this week.
  • Nicolas Cage will explore the origin of cuss words in a new Netflix series.
  • President-elect Joe Biden is reportedly considering sending Pete Buttigieg to China.
  • A woman spoke to the BBC about how a photo of her foot became anti-vaccine propaganda.
  • Rudy Giuliani's "star witness" Mellissa Carone insists she wasn't drunk during her testimony, and also doesn't want to quarantine despite being around Giuliani and Jenna Ellis, who both have coronavirus.
  • Ambient composer Harold Budd has died at 84.
  • Watch a posthumous music video for Tom Petty's Wildflowers outtake "Something Could Happen."
  • And finally, a very gentle koala:

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Ben Yakas was born and raised in New York, and has worked for Gothamist for over a decade, and WNYC for four years, covering literally everything. He has hung out with Dan Smith (who will teach you guitar), but still has yet to have a guitar lesson with him.

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