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The state also has student pilots who need flight time to graduate. Those pilots are being asked to airlift animals to other areas where they have a better chance of being adopted.

Colville Reservation's council has been doing its best to insulate the north central Washington tribe from the coronavirus. But borders are fluid, so the community's precautions haven't been enough.

The San Antonio Spurs head coach was ejected for a violation, and his assistant Becky Hammon took over. The Spurs lost to the Lakers, but she acknowledged that her stint was still "a big deal."

Leaders of the nation's federal vaccine effort, called Operation Warp Speed, said the U.S. has deployed around 14 million vaccine doses as of Wednesday with just 2.1 million Americans vaccinated.

With many more people voting by mail this fall, election officials feared that millions of ballots would be rejected in the general election. Instead, rejection rates went down across the country.

In a year overshadowed by COVID-19, the world saw plenty of other significant developments. Here are some glimpses of the protests, conflicts — and efforts at peace — that helped define 2020.

"Obviously, it's a big deal. It's a substantial moment," Hammon said after the game. But, she added, it would have been nice to win.

The stock market meltdown made way to a stunning rebound that made the rich a lot richer. What happened?

The pandemic interrupted what was expected to be a year of reckoning for drug companies tangled up in the opioid crisis. Many communities are left waiting as lawsuits remain on hold.

A Minneapolis police officer fatally shot a man in an exchange of gunfire during a traffic stop on Wednesday. Residents are awaiting footage of the incident from a police body camera.