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Dec 22, 2019 · 20 predictions for 2020: Here's what people said would happen by this year. Jetpacks, disintegrator rays, nuclear energy, Mars. Decades ago, academics, futurists and government agencies cast their ...
- Grace Hauck
- Criminal Justice Reporter
- January. COVID reared its head in January. The very first case in the U.S. was a Washington State man who had travelled from the city of Wuhan in China, where it all started.
- February. February was consumed with the impeachment of President Trump by the House. He was eventually acquitted by the Senate of charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.
- March. In March it was back to COVID. The World Health Organization declared a global pandemic, and the 2020 Olympics was officially postponed. Coronavirus may infect up to 70% of world's population, expert warns ("CBS Evening News")
- April. Tensions over COVID took center stage in April, when armed demonstrators took to the Michigan State Capitol to protest stay-at-home orders. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer says protests can lead to extension of stay-at-home orders.
Feb 15, 2021 · Barclay’s 150 trends for investors to watch in the 2020s report, meanwhile, puts smartdust (microscopic sensor systems) in the same “unlikely to happen” quadrant as cryptocurrencies, which ...
Dec 17, 2020 · 2020 was a tumultuous year that saw the onset of a deadly global pandemic, widespread protests over systemic racism and a historic U.S. presidential election.
Dec 18, 2020 · In the balance of global power, 2020 has seen a shifting of the plates. To watch America's response was to witness its national decline play out in real-time. The Trump administration's management ...
Dec 24, 2020 · COVID-19 is everywhere, literally, and during 2020 its spread and resulting impact has led to a global crisis of unprecedented reach and proportion. In a six-part series closing out this tumultuous year, UN News looks at the impact on people in every part of the world and some of the solutions that the United Nations has proposed to deal with the fall-out of the pandemic.
Jan 23, 2020 · But Ron Elving at NPR notes: “No one knows what else will happen in 2020 that will affect and perhaps determine the November outcome… The one thing we can safely say is that there’s nothing ...
