These were CNN’s top 100 digital stories of 2020

You know it’s been a remarkable year when a devastating global pandemic isn’t the only major story capturing people’s attention.

In a look at CNN’s most-read digital stories of 2020, November’s historic US presidential election looms large. But the intensity of the year is reflected in the wide range of stories that captured the world’s interest.

From the very start of 2020, users flocked to CNN for news on the airstrikes in Iraq, the impeachment and Kobe Bryant’s tragic death.

March and April saw record global interest in the coronavirus, with people all over the planet turning to CNN for information. 全年, readers wanted to know the basics: How many people were infected, when their stimulus checks were going to arrive, and what they could do to stay safe.

During the tense days following the election, people were glued to vote counts and projections. They experimented with electoral maps. They refreshed and reloaded as the latest results crept in.

Joining these overarching narratives are stories of the racial unrest that swept across the world over the summer, and the fallout from the explosion that rocked Lebanon’s capital city of Beirut.

In between it all, we said goodbye to beloved stars and mourned each new and terrible coronavirus milestone.

往后看, the story coming in at #100 on this list, published in March, is a glimpse into an almost alien past: “Here’s what we know about the 100 people who’ve died in the US from coronavirus.”

几个月后, as this dark year draws to a close, 多于 100 people now die of Covid-19 in the US in a single hour. Across the globe, 多于 1.7 million people have lost their lives; 317,000 and counting in the US alone.

The world we knew at the beginning of 2020 is gone.

希望, 在 2021, the stories we tell will be of a better one.

President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris greet each other on stage in Wilmington, 特拉华州, where they delivered their victory speeches on November 7.

1. Live story: 选举 2020 presidential results

2. Live story: 2020 presidential election eve

3. Live story: The morning after the presidential elections 2020

4. Live story: Where the race to 270 electoral votes stand

5. Live story: Joe Biden is elected president

6. Interactive: The road to 270

7. Interactive: Tracking Covid-19 cases in the US

8. US monitoring intelligence that North Korean leader is in grave danger after surgery

9. 的 2020 presidential election polls

10. Live story: Kobe Bryant dies at 41

A giant mural of NBA legend Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, is seen on a basketball court in Taguig, 菲律宾, 在一月 28. It was painted two days earlier, just hours after the Bryants and seven other people were killed in a helicopter crash in California.

11. Live story: Beirut explosion rocks Lebanon’s capital city

12. Pentagon officially releases UFO videos

13. Live story: George Floyd protests spread nationwide

14. 贾里德·库什纳（Jared Kushner）, Melania Trump advise Trump to accept election loss

15. Live story: Iran attacks bases housing US troops

16. Robert Trump, the younger brother of President Trump, 死于 71

17. President Donald Trump and the First Lady test positive for Covid-19

18. '高兴’ actress Naya Rivera’s body is found

19. White woman who called police on a Black man bird-watching has been fired

20. When will you get your stimulus payment? Here’s how to check

Emergency medical workers intubate a coronavirus patient at a home in Yonkers, 纽约, 在四月 6. The 92-year-old man was later put on a ventilator at the hospital, and he died two weeks later, 他的家人说.

21. Senate stimulus deal includes individual checks — but don’t expect the money right away

22. Infected people without symptoms might be driving the spread of coronavirus more than we realized

23. Stories from Anderson Cooper’s Full Circle

24. Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith confirm her involvement with August Alsina

25. Trump’s photo op raises new questions about how seriously he takes the virus

26. Podcast: 新冠病毒 – Fact vs. Fiction

27. Live story: Trump’s Covid diagnosis

28. When will you get your stimulus cash, and how?

29. Trump continues to break the polling

30. A reporter’s reaction when a bison herd approaches has the internet in stitches

31. Lebanon explosion: Thousands injured across capital Beirut

This aerial photo shows the aftermath of the deadly explosion in Beirut, 黎巴嫩.

32. Why does Russia, 人口 146 百万, have fewer coronavirus cases than Luxembourg?

33. Is it allergies, the flu or the coronavirus? How to tell the difference

34. Interactive: This is where all 50 states stand on reopening

35. Live story: 游行 22 coronavirus news

36. What this coronavirus survivor learned when she was sick

37. CNN crew released from police custody after they were arrested live on air in Minneapolis

38. Senate approves historic $ 2 trillion stimulus deal amid growing coronavirus fears

39. Live story: 的 2020 Iowa caucuses

40. Live story: 可能 30 George Floyd protests

A protester carries an American flag upside down next to a burning building in Minneapolis on May 28. Protesters started rallying across the United States after the death of George Floyd, a Black man who was killed in police custody in Minneapolis.

41. '黑豹’ star Chadwick Boseman dies at 43

42. Black light experiment shows how quickly a virus like Covid-19 can spread at a restaurant

43. From pandering to Putin to abusing allies and ignoring his own advisers, Trump’s phone calls alarm US officials

44. Live story: 游行 25 coronavirus news

45. Researchers created a test to determine which masks are the least effective

46. Melania Trump’s messaging frustrating the West Wing, 消息说

47. Live story: 游行 21 coronavirus news

48. Live story: 十月 4 Trump Covid-19 news

49. These states have implemented stay-at-home orders. Here’s what that means for you

50. Cady Groves, pop and country singer, 死于 30

51. Trump taken to Walter Reed medical center and will be hospitalized ‘for the next few days’

President Donald Trump takes off his face mask for a photo op on October 5 upon returning to the White House after three nights in the hospital.

52. Biden uses ‘inshallah’ in response to Trump during debate, lighting up Twitter

53. Kobe Bryant and his daughter, Gianna, among 9 killed in a helicopter crash in California

54. CNN anchor Chris Cuomo diagnosed with coronavirus; he will continue working from home

55. Worried about coronavirus? If your loved one is over 60, read this

56. Live story: 游行 20 coronavirus news

57. White House sows confusion about Trump’s condition as source tells reporters next 48 hours will be critical

58. Wuhan shows the world that the end of lockdown is just the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis

59. Live story: 十月 3 Trump Covid-19 news

60. The number of US coronavirus cases has topped 13,000 as testing becomes more available

博士. Joseph Varon comforts a patient on Thanksgiving in the Covid-19 intensive care unit at the United Memorial Medical Center in Houston. Texas was the first state to pass 1 million coronavirus cases, 根据约翰·霍普金斯大学的数据.

61. NTSB details the final moments of the helicopter before it crashed, killing Kobe Bryant and 8 其他

62. Here’s a list of disinfectants you can use against coronavirus

63. Jared and Ivanka are poised to return to a Manhattan social scene that no longer welcomes them

64. Attorney who was found dead named as primary suspect in fatal shooting at federal judge’s home

65. '高兴’ actress Naya Rivera is presumed dead after disappearing at a lake in California

66. Live story: 可能 31 George Floyd protests

67. Live story: Super Tuesday 2020

68. Experts say it may be time for grocery stores to ban customers from coming inside because of Covid-19

69. Chinese authorities confirm case of bubonic plague in Inner Mongolia

70. The psychology behind why toilet paper, of all things, is the latest coronavirus panic buy

71. All four former officers involved in George Floyd’s killing now face charges

People gather on the National Mall in Washington, 直流电, 在八月 28 to demand social and political change. The event was meant to recall the 1963 March on Washington, where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous “I Have a Dream” 言语.

72. Sioux tribe rejects South Dakota governor request to remove Covid-19 checkpoints

73. 12-year-old girl with coronavirus is on a ventilator and fighting for her life

74. 750 million genetically engineered mosquitoes approved for release in Florida Keys

75. Live story: 游行 26 coronavirus news

76. Biden widens lead over Trump in critical Pennsylvania

77. Trump says ‘Iran appears to be standing down’ following its retaliatory attacks against Iraqi bases housing US troops

78. A Florida man dies days after hundreds of people exposed to coronavirus walked around the world’s busiest airport

79. Live story: 四月 5 coronavirus news

80. The world’s new Covid-19 epicenter could be the worst yet