Pictures of the Week: Electoral School Affirms Biden as President-Elect, First Covid-19 Vaccine Out there to U.S. Public, Nor’easter Dumps Snow and Extra

By jimadmin On Dec 20, 2020

Dec. 19, 2020 4:30 p.m. ET

On Thursday, children stood in the rainwater in the flooded Mukhayyam al-Khair camp in the Syrian province of Idlib and sheltered displaced Syrians.

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Omar Haj Kadour / AFP / Getty Images

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Bob Miller for WSJ

“He died alone, and the next time we saw him it was in a box,” Clarence John Hill Jr. said. “To fight for this country, treat her that way. As? How can that be right? ‘Mr. Hill is shown with his two children and the funeral flag in honor of his veteran father Clarence John Hill Sr., who lived at the Bill Nichols State Veterans Home in Alabama. Mr. Hill discovered that his father had only tested positive for the coronavirus after his death by a funeral home in Alexander City. During the pandemic, one of the worst places to be was a government facility for retired soldiers and women. Continue reading.

A woman cleared a sidewalk in Binghamton, NY on Thursday after heavy snowfall

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Craig Ruttle / AP

A man coated kite-flying strings with colored glass powder on Sunday before a festival in Ahmedabad, India.

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Sam Panthaky / AFP / Getty Images

A group of students gathered in Katsina, Nigeria, Friday after their release. More than 300 boys were abducted in a Boko Haram attack on their school last week.

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Sunday Alamba / AP

West Ham United’s Sebastien Haller (center) scored a goal against Crystal Palace in London on Wednesday.

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Justin Setterfield / AFP / Getty Images

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Taylor Glascock for the Wall Street Journal

“I was overwhelmed to be asked,” says Mary Arnold. “It never occurred to me that I could be an elector.” Ms. Arnold, 72, a Democrat from Columbus, Wisconsin, pats her dog during a Biden Organization Zoom meeting. The electoral college formalized Joe Biden’s victory in last month’s presidential election on Monday, when meetings in state capitals confirmed nationwide that the Democrat had garnered more than the 270 votes required to run in just over a month. Continue reading.

A woman observed the “diamond ring” effect during a total solar eclipse on Monday in Piedra del Aguila, Argentina.

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Natacha Pisarenko / AP

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke on video during a press conference in Moscow on Thursday.

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Alexander Zemlianichenko / AP

Butch Graham’s ‘City of Salt Lake’ car in his garage in Salt Lake City. Mr Graham spent 40 years restoring the vehicle his father built and drove in the late 1950s and 1960s.

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Joshua Tug Ferguson for WSJ

A man received the Covid-19 vaccine at UPMC Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh on Monday.

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Emily Rose Bennett for WSJ

Churchgoers attend services at the Calvary Christian Reformed Church in Wyoming, Michigan. “Right now there is nothing that feels united in the United States,” says Mark Westrate, a Church member. Disagreements over politics, Covid-19 and social issues divide people into incompatible camps. The phenomenon is acutely felt in the church, a place where worshipers want to escape the tensions of everyday life. Continue reading.

Yaneth Gomez and her brother, 11-year-old Gabriel Ignacio Gomez (right), played soccer in their backyard after finishing their online classes near Patterson, California. Laura Gomez’s two children used their smartphone hotspot to log into distance school early this fall, but the connection was so weak that the children could not always see or hear their teachers. School districts and cities across the country are trying to bridge a decades-long digital divide.

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Brian L. Frank for WSJ