An attendee wears a homemade sign during Wednesday s rally. | Photo by Jarrod Mills
Event organizer William Bill Moss announced his intent to run against Senator Mitch McConnell in the future. | Photo by Jarrod Mills
An attendee signs a petition calling for the impeachment of Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear. | Photo by Jarrod Mills
The rally was escorted by the Williamsburg Fire Department into Briar Creek Park. | Photo by Jarrod Mills
Around 25 people attended the Rally to Stop Election Fraud on Wednesday in Williamsburg. | Photo by Jarrod Mills
Rally organizer William Bill Moss reads aloud federal government spending figures over the past year. | Photo by Jarrod Mills
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The odds-on Democratic victory in two U.S. Senate races on Tuesday could open the door to the more robust government spending response economists and others have argued is needed to get the country through the pandemic with as little long-term economic damage to companies and households as possible.
FILE PHOTO: Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden makes a statement on the U.S. presidential election results during a brief appearance before reporters in Wilmington, Delaware, November 5, 2020. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
While results in the Georgia contests are not yet official, rising U.S. bond yields on Wednesday showed investors were already pricing in Democratic control of not just the White House, when President-elect Joe Biden takes office in two weeks, but both chambers of the U.S. Congress.
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The Democratic-controlled US House of Representatives has passed a bill to meet President Donald Trump s demand for increasing direct coronavirus relief payments to some Americans to USD 2,000, but the measure faces an uphill battle in the Republican-run Senate. The Caring for Americans with Supplemental Help (CASH) Act of 2020 was passed on Monday by the House with a 275-134 vote. In a rare holiday House session, 231 Democrats joined 44 of their Republican colleagues in passing the measure. We are a consumer economy. Putting money into the hands of the American people is a boost to our economy, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said.
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As we dug into the data to see which stories resonated with you most in 2020, two topics dominated, not at all unsurprisingly.
Our coverage of the pandemic and the election mainly that of Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell are largely what you, our dear readers, clicked on most this year. That s a departure from the lists of years past, where such roundups tended to be a potpourri of past subjects. (See: 2018 and 2019.)
Still, there are a few outliers that remind us there are things we cared about before the year seemingly went mad. Herewith, this year s list: