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After months of wrangling in Congress, President Donald Trump signed a $1.4 trillion omnibus spending bill Dec. 27 that included $900 billion in COVID-19 relief to offer more help to citizens and businesses as the pandemic rages on. Tucked into that bill were measures designed to help the travel industry, which has been decimated as global travel plummeted in 2020.
Mediaite’s Most Influential in News Media 2020
By Mediaite StaffDec 21st, 2020, 9:35 am
You can exhale. We’re close to the end of 2020, marking the conclusion of one of the most consequential years of news in modern history.
The major stories were seismic. There was a pandemic that brought the world to a grinding halt, emptying newsrooms just as more people than ever clamored for information about one of the biggest global outbreaks since the 1918 flu.
Protests against racial injustice, after the killing of
George Floyd, erupted first across the country in the Spring, and soon spread around the world.
There was a presidential election conducted over Zoom that saw the largest number of votes cast in U.S. history: more than 161 million. That election concluded with the sitting president of the United States refusing to concede defeat and seeking to overturn the results.