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FILE - In this June 29, 1986, file photo, Diego Maradona holds up his team's trophy after Argentina's 3-2 victory over West Germany at the World Cup final soccer match at Azteca Stadium in Mexico City. The Argentine soccer great who was among the best players ever and who led his country to the 1986 World Cup title died from a heart attack on Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2020, at his home in Buenos Aires. He was 60. (AP Photo/Carlo Fumagalli, File) Carlo Fumagalli Victoria Will associated press file photos Lawrence Jackson

Remembering those who died in 2020, from Ruth Bader Ginsburg and B. Smith to Chadwick Boseman and Eddie Van Halen Updated Dec 31, 2020; Posted Dec 31, 2020 FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2018, file photo, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg leaves the stage after speaking to first-year students at Georgetown Law in Washington. Ginsburg died of metastatic pancreatic cancer at age 87. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)AP Facebook Share By BERNARD McGHEE, The Associated Press In a year defined by a devastating pandemic, the world lost iconic defenders of civil rights, great athletes and enterta...

Gallery: Recalling lives lost in 2020 Bernard McGhee Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 1of24 English actress Honor Blackman poses for photographers during a break from the filming in London. Blackman, 94, the potent British actress who took James Bond’s breath away as Pussy Galore in “Goldfinger” and who starred as the leather-clad, judo-flipping Cathy Gale in “The Avengers,” died April 5. (AP Photo/Leonard Brown, File) Show MoreShow Less 2of24 Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak delivers a speech at the first day of the 5th annual convention of the ruling National Democratic Part...

An Open Letter to 2020 on Its Last Day Dear 2020, Quite honestly, those numbers haven't sounded as good together since Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters were a Friday night staple. A lot of us had high hopes for you this year, 2020. We were going to tackle new adventures. We were going to travel more. We were going to take a new risk and maybe step outside our comfort zone a little bit. Instead, we spent most of you hearing the terms, "Coronavirus," "COVID," "pandemic," "social distancing," "six feet apart," and "election." You took our loved ones. You kept us at home. You exhausted us. But the...

Julie Weil What a difference a year makes! 2020 started off with such promise but soon turned into a dumpster fire. Speaking of fires, wildfires have raged in Australia, California, Oregon and the Amazon rainforest. And, the man who loves to say, “You’re fired!” has had 91% turnover of senior White House officials. Speaking of widespread disaster, COVID-19 has pervaded our world. There are almost 80 million coronavirus cases worldwide and nearly 20 million in the U.S.; we’re approaching two million deaths globally and about 330,000 domestically. Yet, we are closing out the year by fi...