Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., administers the judicial oath to Judge Amy Coney Barrett at the Supreme Court on Tuesday. Barrett's husband, Jesse, holds the Bible. Fred Schilling/Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States hide caption
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Farida Mercedes and her two sons Sebastian, 5, (left) and Lucas, 7, stand in their backyard in Fairlawn, N.J. Mercedes left her job as an assistant VP of HR at L'Oreal in August after working there for 17 years. As hundreds of thousands of women dropped out of the workforce in September, Latinas led the way, leaving at nearly three times the rate of white women. Erica Seryhm Lee for NPR hide caption
'My Family Needs Me': Latinas Drop Out Of Workforce At Alarming Rates
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Keith Raniere was sentenced on Tuesday to 120 years in prison for his role as ringleader of the NXIVM cult, where he sexually abused several young women. In this June 2019 courtroom artist's sketch, Raniere, center, sits with his attorneys during closing arguments at federal court in Brooklyn, N.Y. Elizabeth Williams/AP hide caption
Increasingly, many people in the U.S., like these teens in a Miami grocery story in August, now routinely wear face masks in public to help stop COVID-19's spread. But social distancing and other public health measures have been slower to catch on, especially among young adults, a national survey finds. Jeff Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images hide caption
A woman walks past a wrecked van near the northwestern Syrian village of Barisha. Local residents and medical staff told NPR that noncombatant civilians who were in the van were injured and killed last year the night of the U.S. raid on the compound of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The military says the men were "combatants" but found no weapons. Ibrahim Yasouf/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Pentagon Says 2 Men Killed In Baghdadi Raid Were Combatants But Offers Little Evidence
USAID is one of the largest official foreign aid organizations in the world. An executive order from the Trump administration said there would be consequences if its diversity training programs were to continue. Photo Illustration by Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images hide caption
Hit With An Unexpectedly High Medical Bill, Here's How A Savvy Patient Fought Back
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Marc Polymeropoulos, a senior CIA official, photographed in Moscow's Red Square in 2017. He fell ill on that trip and has since suffered debilitating migraine headaches that led him to resign from the agency. U.S. diplomats in Cuba and China have suffered similar symptoms in recent years, but the cause has not been identified. Courtesy of Marc Polymeropoulos hide caption
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