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A diminutive giant of the Supreme Court and a man who inadvertently launched a new civil rights movement are among the newsmakers we lost in 2020.

The Associated Press Created: December 16, 2020 12:58 PM In a year defined by a devastating pandemic, the world lost iconic defenders of civil rights, great athletes and entertainers who helped define their genres. Many of their names hold a prominent place in the collective consciousness — RBG, Kobe, Maradona, Eddie Van Halen, Little Richard, Sean Connery, Alex Trebek, Christo — but pandemic restrictions often limited the public's ability to mourn their loss in a year that saw more than a million people die from the coronavirus. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ...

Opinion Opinion Advocates for ideas and draws conclusions based on the author/producer’s interpretation of facts and data. Should This Article Be Trusted? Illustration by Carlos PX/Visuals/Unsplash Where does our news come from? What’s the difference between “fact” and “opinion” in news reporting? Should this article be trusted? After the past four dizzying years—during which the president has consistently vilified the press and sought to undermine public trust in journalism—answers to these fundamental questions are evidently far from elementary for many Americans. A December...

By Dr. Tim Seelig– Since 1978, the words “this is 20/20” have been repeated weekly by a host of trusted household names: Hugh Downs, Barbara Walters, Diane Sawyer, Charles Gibson, Sam Donaldson, Connie Chung, John Stossel, Elizabeth Vargas, and Chris Cuomo. That is quite a list. They are the news anchors people completely trusted when they reported worldwide happenings. That’s certainly television of the past. It appeared on one of the three major networks. What? Three? Not on Netflix? Forget it! Many have. But many of us haven’t. Not only are the three big networks struggling to co...

In a year defined by a devastating pandemic, the world lost iconic defenders of civil rights, great athletes and entertainers who helped define their genres.