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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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