Pictures of the Year: top U.S. news images for 2020
Dr. Anthony Fauci (R), director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, stands as Trump leaves a press briefing on the pandemic with members of the Coronavirus Task Force at the White House on March 26. Photo by Yuri Gripas/UPI
The casket containing the remains of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who
died on September 18 at age 87, is carried into the Supreme Court to lie in repose in Washington, D.C., on September 23. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI
Judge Amy Coney Barrett holds up a blank note pad on the second day of her
confirmation hearing to fill Ginsburg's seat on the Supreme Court before the Senate Judiciary Committee on October 13. Pool Photo by Tom Williams/UPI
Trump (L) arrives to introduce Barrett (R) as his Supreme Court nominee during a ceremony in the Rose Garden that
resulted in a COVID-19 outbreak at the White House on September 26. Photo by Shawn Thew/UPI
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., talks to socially distanced reporters after the Senate reconvened following an extended recess due to the coronavirus pandemic on Capitol Hill on May 4. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield appears before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing to review coronavirus response efforts on Capitol Hill on September 16. Redfield said the
use of face masks is vital to control the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Pool Photo by Andrew Harnik/UPI
Trump
poses with a Bible outside St. John's Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C., on June 1 as protesters demonstrated nearby. Photo by Shawn Thew/UPI
Mark (L) and Patricia McCloskey
point a pistol and semi-automatic rifle as protesters for social justice walk past their St. Louis house en route to the mayor's home on June 28. Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI
Vice President Mike Pence speaks at a
campaign rally for Trump in Tulsa, Okla., on June 20. Photo by Kyle Rivas/UPI
Senate Judiciary Chairman Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., adjusts his face mask as he arrives for a November 17 committee hearing on
actions of Twitter and Facebook during the presidential election. Pool Photo by Bill Clark/UPI
President Donald trump and first lady Melania Trump depart after addressing the third night of the
Republican National Convention at Fort McHenry in Baltimore on August 26. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI
Trump delivers remarks as he departs the White House to visit a Whirlpool manufacturing plant in Ohio on August 6. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., rides an escalator as he returns to his office at the U.S. Capitol on October 1. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI
The control room where live feeds are managed is in operation for the first night of the
virtual Democratic National Convention at the Wisconsin Center in Milwaukee on August 17. Pool Photo by Scott Olson/UPI
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stands next to a campaign truck covered with her photos as she prepares to speak to the media after greeting voters
on primary election day in New York City on June 23. Photo by John Angelillo/UPI
Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris smiles during her
vice presidential debate with Vice President Mike Pence in Salt Lake City on October 7. Pool Photo by Justin Sullivan/UPI
Shannon Epstein (L) and Bekah Carlson react while watching televised election results at McPherson Square near the White House on November 3. Photo by Ken Cedeno/UPI
Canvassers process
mail-in election ballots at a sorting facility in Gaithersburg, Md., on October 29. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI
Supporters of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden march in the streets near the White House on November 6. Biden
was projected as the winner the next day. Photo by Ken Cedeno/UPI
President-elect Joe Biden (2nd R), his wife Jill Biden (R), Vice President-elect Kamala Harris (2nd L) and her husband Douglas Emhoff appear onstage after
Biden defeated Trump in the presidential election, in Wilmington, Del., on November 7, 2020. Photo by Pat Benic/UPI
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off with the
first crewed Crew Dragon spacecraft from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 30. The mission, classified as Crew Demo 2, is flying NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken and is the first crewed mission from the center in over nine years. Photo by Joe Marino/UPI
Vanessa Bryant is overcome with emotion and grief as she addresses family members, friends, and fans attending the
memorial service for her husband and daughter, Kobe and Gianna Bryant, in Los Angeles on February 24. The NBA star and his 13-year-old daughter were killed along with seven others in a helicopter crash on January 26. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI
The casket containing the body of Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., crosses the Edmund Pettus Bridge during
his funeral procession in Selma, Ala., on July 26. Photo by Jemal Countess/UPI
The Bidens touch the casket of civil rights pioneer and longtime Lewis as they pay their respects following
a memorial service in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on July 27. Pool Photo by Jonathan Ernst/UPI
Nardos Zacarias of Springfield, Va., places a flower in the new
Black Lives Matter street sign as she participates in a rally against racism and police violence in Washington, D.C., on June 6. Photo by Ken Cedeno/UPI
Thousands of protesters took to the streets for a second weekend demanding justice for the death of Floyd in Washington, D.C., on June 6. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI
Rodney Floyd (L) speaks during his brother
George's funeral service at The Fountain of Praise Church on June 9 in Houston. Pool Photo by David J. Phillip/UPI
Chandany Smith attends
the March on Washington at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28. The march was a call for justice and an end to police brutality in light of the rash of the recent killings of unarmed Black men and women by police. Photo by Jemal Countess/UPI
Black Lives Matter supporters argue with Trump supporters during a demonstration while the
president visits a week after police shot Jacob Blake seven times in the back in Kenosha, Wis., on September 1. Later that week, the news broke that seven officers in Rochester, N.Y., were suspended after the arrest of
Daniel Prude resulted in his death. Photo by Alex Wroblewski/UPI
From left to right, Georgetown Law School Professor Paul Butler, Angela Underwood Jacobs, whose brother David Underwood, a Federal Protective Service officer, was shot and killed in Oakland, George Floyd's brother Philonise Floyd and civil rights attorney Ben Crump are sworn in during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on police brutality and racial profiling on June 10. A few days later, the Senate
also held a hearing on police brutality. Pool Photo by Brendan Smialowski/UPI
A New York police officer looks around as a police van burns in the background during
continuing demonstrations over the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police, in New York City on May 30. Photo by John Angelillo/UPI
A healthcare worker takes a break outside Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in New York City on April 6. Photo by John Angelillo/UPI
Medical professionals administer rapid pinprick COVID-19 antibody testing to food service and custodial staff from the Culver City Unified School District in Culver City, Calif., on May 23. Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI
Healthcare workers gather in Times Square for the daily "Thank You Hour" to honor essential medical workers and to protest as demonstrations around the country continue over the death of George Floyd in New York City on June 2. Photo by John Angelillo/UPI
Archbishop of Washington Wilton Daniel Gregory (C) holds Easter mass to
a virtual congregation at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., on April 12. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI
Traders work on the floor of
the New York Stock Exchange at the opening bell on Wall Street in New York City on March 17. Photo by John Angelillo/UPI
People line up to receive bags of food from the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank as the coronavirus has hit the food insecure especially hard in Daly City, Calif., on April 17. Photo by Terry Schmitt/UPI
COVID Memorial Project volunteers plant 20,000 American flags at sunset on the National Mall to
represent the 200,000 Americans who have died in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, in Washington, D.C., on September 21. The death toll has continued to climb. Photo by Pat Benic/UPI
Harvey Weinstein arrives at Manhattan Court as jury selection continues in his sexual misconduct trial in New York City on January 13. Weinstein
received 23 years in prison on charges of rape and criminal sexual act. Photo by John Angelillo/UPI
Sawyers with the Billings IA, a Bureau of Land Management Initial Attack crew based in Billings, Mont., take a brief respite before they continue to prepare a road for burnout operations at the
August Complex fire in Mendocino National Forest on September 6. The fire was the first in California's history to surpass burning more than 1 million acres. Photo by Spc. Michael Ybarra/U.S. Army
An eerie mixture of fog and smoke casts an orange glow over San Francisco and the Bay Bridge at 10:10 a.m. along the Embarcadero on September 9. Photo by Terry Schmitt/UPI
A massive plume of smoke rises from the
CalWood wildfire, burning in the Boulder County foothills near Jamestown, as seen from Niwot, Colo., on October 17. Photo by Bob Strong/UPI
The U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater, Fla., conducts an overflight to survey the damage
from Hurricane Laura near Orange, Texas, on August 27. Photo by PO3 Paige Hause/U.S. Coast Guard
