Beyond COVID-19: Politics, legal news grabbed 2020 headlines

FILE - In this May 14, 2020, file photos, a Salvation Army worker, center, wears a mask and gloves out of concern for the coronavirus while distributing food to a person, right, also wearing a mask, in Chelsea, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

FILE - In this Aug. 27, 2019, file photo, Lori Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli, left, depart federal court in Boston. Loughlin reported to prison in October 2020, and Giannulli reported to prison in November 2020, after they pleaded guilty to charges in a nationwide college admissions bribery scandal. (AP Photo/Philip Marcelo, File)

FILE - In this May 14, 2020, file photo, an image of veteran Constance "Kandy" Pinard is projected onto the home she grew up in with her sister, Tammy Petrowicz, left, and brothers, Paul, center, and Brian Driscoll in Florence, Mass. Pinard, a nurse in the U.S. Air Force and resident of the Soldier's Home in Holyoke, Mass., died from the COVID-19 virus at the age of 73. The coronavirus pandemic was Massachusetts' top story of 2020. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2020, file photo, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Kimberly S. Budd raises her hand as she is sworn-in by Gov. Charlie Baker at the State House in Boston. (Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool, File)

FILE - In this Jan. 4, 2020, file photo, New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady listens to a question at his post-game news conference after playing his last game with the Patriots in a loss to the Tennessee Titans in an NFL wild-card playoff football game in Foxborough, Mass. In March, Brady signed with with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)

FILE - In this March 5, 2020, file photo, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., acknowledges supporters as she arrives to speak to the media outside her home in Cambridge, Mass., after she dropped out of the Democratic presidential race. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

FILE - In this Aug. 10, 2020 file photo the Mayflower II, a replica of the original Mayflower ship that brought the Pilgrims to America 400 year ago, docks at Plymouth, Mass., as it returns home following extensive renovations. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)