Allison Mack is alleged to have branded victims and forced them to participate in sexual acts. She was arrested on Friday morning. Todd Williamson/Invision/AP hide caption
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Craigslist Shuts Down Personals Section After Congress Passes Bill On Trafficking
People at Seoul Railway Station in South Korea on Saturday watch a TV screen showing file footage of U.S. President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a news program. North Korea says it has suspended nuclear and long-range missile tests and plans to close its nuclear test site ahead of a new round of negotiations with South Korea and the United States. Ahn Young-joon/AP hide caption
In a study of more than 5,500 U.S. youths ages 12 to 17, about 6 percent say they've engaged in some sort of digital self-harm. More than half in that subgroup say they've bullied themselves this way more than once. Jasmin Merdan/Getty Images hide caption
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday expanded a warning to consumers not to eat any romaine lettuce grown in the Yuma, Ariz., region. David Goldman/AP hide caption
The funeral for former first lady Barbara Bush, who died earlier this week, was held on Saturday at St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Houston. Guests included former U.S. presidents, first lady Melania Trump, ambassadors and sports celebrities. Jack Gruber/AP hide caption
Barbara Bush Remembered In Her Own, Never-Minced, Words
Barbara Bush On Meeting George, Motherhood And Her Signature Fake Pearls
Former FBI Director James Comey leaves a closed session with the Senate intelligence committee on Capitol Hill June 8, 2017. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption
Hundreds of students gather at the State Capitol in St. Paul, Minn., on Friday to protest gun violence, part of a national high school walkout on the 19th anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting. Jim Mone/AP hide caption
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens is seen earlier this month discussing a 2015 extramarital affair. He faces a felony charge of invasion of privacy related to the affair and another of computer tampering. Jeff Roberson/AP hide caption
The AMC cinema in Riyadh hosted the first film screening in more than three decades on April 18. Movie theaters open to the wider public next month after Saudi Arabia lifted a 35-year ban on cinemas as part of a far-reaching liberalization drive. Bandar Al-Jaloud/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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Didier Kassai uses comics to "transmit a message." His father opposed to a career in art until Kassai began earning money for his drawings. Here he sits in his office in Bangui, capital of the Central African Republic. Cassandra Vinograd for NPR hide caption
First responders in the Marina District disaster zone after an earthquake on October 17, 1989 in San Francisco, Calif. Otto Greule Jr/Getty Images hide caption
Major Earthquake On Bay Area Fault Could Kill 800 People, USGS Predicts
National Park Service wildland firefighters set a prescribed fire in Manassas National Battlefield Park's Brawner Farm area to help the area look more like Civil War soldiers would have seen it. Brian Gorsia/NPS hide caption
Truck driver James Matthew Bradley Jr. was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Friday. Officers found 39 immigrants inside a vehicle that he was driving in July 2017. Ten of the passengers died. Eric Gay/AP hide caption
Catherine Fitzgerald, the author's mother, spent four nights in a hospital after falling in her home. But Medicare refused to pay for her rehab care, saying she had only been an inpatient for one night. Alison Kodjak/NPR hide caption
A daily edition of The Columbian passes overhead at the paper's printing press in Vancouver, Wash. Natalie Behring/Getty Images hide caption
Tariffs On Canadian Newsprint Choke Already Troubled American Papers
A NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Lagoon Nebula, which is about 4,000 light-years away. It was taken by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 in February. The image was released to celebrate the 28th anniversary of Hubble. NASA, ESA, STScI hide caption
Malibu's ordinance banning single-use plastic items is set to go into effect June 1 in an effort to eliminate waste and clean up the city's beaches. Reed Saxon/AP hide caption
To Curb Ocean Pollution, U.K. May Ban Plastic Straws, Stirrers And Cotton Swabs
Protester Jack Willis, 26, demonstrates outside a Starbucks in Philadelphia. Police arrested two black men who were waiting inside a Center City Starbucks which prompted an apology from the company's CEO. Mark Makela/Getty Images hide caption
Arvo Pärt's four symphonies — newly recorded for ECM — trace a 45-year journey the composer took in finding his true style. Birgit Püve/ECM Records hide caption
Kanye West's recent life-coach-like Twitter activity is out of character for the infamously polarizing rapper. Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images hide caption