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Some Republicans in the state fear that the doubt President Trump is sowing about the fairness of the election could depress turnout for the crucial Senate runoff races.
The throngs of visitors have disappeared from New York City’s famous neighborhood, and there is an eeriness to the emptiness.
Especially in service industries, old jobs may not be coming back. Training programs are aiming to provide skills for more resilient occupations.
A roaring recovery is in sight, but a lot depends on what Congress does next for the winter economy.
The iron-fisted tactics used against Georgia and Ukraine seem to have fallen out of favor, replaced by a more subtle blend of soft power and an implicit military threat.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 25, 2020, covering December 1, 2020.
AC/DC
Future & Lil Uzi Vert
Chris Stapleton
Ariana Grande
Pop Smoke
2020Arnie Robinson, American athlete (born 1948)[†]
Arnie Paul Robinson Jr. was an American athlete. He won a bronze medal in the long jump at the 1972 Olympics and a gold medal in 1976.
2020The Arecibo Telescope collapsed.[†]
The Arecibo Telescope was a 305 m (1,000 ft) spherical reflector radio telescope built into a natural sinkhole at the Arecibo Observatory located near Arecibo, Puerto Rico. A cable-mounted, steerable receiver and several radar transmitters for emitting signals were mounted 150 m (492 ft) above the dish. Completed in November 1963, the Arecibo Telescope was the world's largest single-aperture telescope for 53 years, until it was surpassed in July 2016 by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in Guizhou, China.
In 2020, the world population was approximately 7,887,001,292 people[†]