SEPTEMBER Sept. 28: Global death toll from COVID- 19 exceeds 1 million. DECEMBER

Sept. 11: Trump announces Israel and Bahrain will establish full diplomatic relations.

Sept. 18: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies.

Sept. 26: Trump announces he will nominate Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court during a Rose Garden event that becomes a superspreader event for the coronavirus.

Sept. 29: First presidential debate in Cleveland.

Dec. 1: Attorney General William Barr says the Justice Department has found no evidence of widespread voter fraud.

Biden names economic team, including Janet Yellen as treasury secretary.

Dec. 2: Britain authorizes Pfizer vaccine for COVID- 19.

Dec. 11: FDA authorizes Pfizer vaccine in U. S.; first shots given Dec. 14.

Dec. 13: The Trump administration acknowledges that hackers, almost certainly Russian, had broken into key U. S. government networks.

Dec. 14: Electoral College confirms Biden president and Harris vice president.

Dec. 21: Congress passes a bipartisan $ 900 billion package to provide pandemic relief and a $ 1.4 trillion spending bill to fund the government.

Dec. 22: Trump issues 20 politically charged pardons and commutations.

Dec. 23: Trump vetoes crucial military spending bill.

Trump issues 26 more politically charged pardons and commutations.

Barr steps down as attorney general.

Dec. 25: Suicide bomber detonates a bomb in an RV parked in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, injuring at least eight other people.

Dec. 27: Trump signs spending bill, averting shutdown and releasing COVID- 19 aid.