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Biden wins Electoral College
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Vol. 35, No. 24
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2020 News of the Year: Pandemic

News Of The Year | Who could have predicted on Jan. 1, 2020, that a coronavirus invisible to the human eye would change life for nearly every person on the planet and kill more than a million people?

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2020’s church divide

Churches | A pandemic and national controversies have splintered churches and taken a toll on pastors struggling to hold them together

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2020 News of the Year: Politics

News Of The Year | At 2020’s dawn, the United States was in the middle of impeachment

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2020 News of the Year: Tension

News Of The Year | The coronavirus pandemic dominated 2020’s news cycle heading into

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2020 News of the Year: Deaths

| Year 2020 included the deaths of notable politicians, academics, t

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On Legal Docket, Mary Reichard unpacks the oral arguments in two Supreme Court cases with roots in the Holocaust; on the Monday Moneybeat, Nick Eicher talks to financial analyst David Bahnsen about the latest economic news; and on History Book, Katie Gaultney recounts significant events from the past. Plus: the Monday morning news. Support The World and Everything in It today at wng.org/donate Additional support comes from Bible Translation Fellowship. Where Bible translation is integrated with the mission of the church. More at BibleTranslationFellowship.org And from Sunshine Bible Academy, a Christian boarding school in South Dakota empowering today's youth to apply God's truth. Sunshinebible.org

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A very strange Christmas in Europe

International | European nations set ground rules for holidays with the coronavirus

International aid workers killed in Ethiopian conflict

The Danish Refugee Council on Friday said three of its staffers who worked as guards at a project site in the warring region of Tigray in Ethiopia

China hits U.S. officials with reciprocal sanctions

China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying on Thursday announced a freeze on visa-free entry into Hong Kong and Macao for Americans with di

EU prepares for hard rift with U.K.

The European Union on Thursday offered to maintain train, airline, and freight operations with Britain for six months if they can’t reach a trade a

Israel and Morocco to normalize relations

The Trump administration’s push for Arab-Israeli peace agreements continues.

France introduces bill to tackle Islamist extremism

French Prime Minister Jean Castex on Wednesday presented the proposed legislation titled “Supporting Republican Principles” to the Cabinet.

Facing oppression in China

International | New software could help further target Uighurs

UN workers targeted in Ethiopia

Ethiopian security forces opened fire and detained United Nations staffers as they tried to enter refugee areas in the conflict-hit Tigray region o

Brexit on the brink again

Negotiations over a free trade agreement have reached a “difficult phase,” U.K. Business Secretary Alok Sharma said Friday.

Charles “Chuck” Yeager dies

Charles “Chuck” Yeager, the United States Air Force brigadier general most well known for being the first person to break the sound barrier, died M

Economist Walter Williams dies

Walter Williams, who built a career as a professor and writer, died on Wednesday. He was 84.

Pandemic brings saner Black Friday

Just a trickle of shoppers wandered through Macy’s on Herald Square in New York an hour after it opened.

Retail trade group expects strong season

Spending over the holidays could increase by roughly 3.5 percent over last year, according to the National Retail Federation—despite an economy sti

Dow pushes past record 30,000 points

Good news about the development of COVID-19 vaccines and more certainty about the U.S. election have powered a month of gains on the stock market.

GM to recall millions of vehicles

General Motors said Monday it would recall more than 7 million vehicles, including pickup trucks and SUVs from Chevrolet, Cadillac, and GMC, becaus

Dow Jones hits record high

Two consecutive weeks of good news about CO

Joblessness numbers show improvement

After hovering at about 750,000 for the last two weeks, the number of new weekly unemployment applications fell to 709,000 according to the Labor D

Economy grows at record rate in third quarter

The number of Americans seeking first-time unemployment benefits last week decreased by more than 40,000 to 751,000, according to the Labor Departm