President Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shake hands during a news conference at Trump's private Mar-a-Lago club Wednesday evening. Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP hide caption
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Playboy model Karen McDougal attends Playboy's Super Saturday Night Party on Feb. 2, 2008 in Phoenix, Ariz. Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic hide caption
Tabs on a Facebook app for, "Privacy Basics, More Settings, and Data Policy," are displayed on an iPhone. Mark Lennihan/AP hide caption
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach speaks in Topeka, Kan., before a trial challenging his state's proof-of-citizenship voter registration law. John Hanna/AP hide caption
Tammie Jo Shults kept a cool head as she navigated her stricken Southwest airliner to a safe emergency landing on Tuesday. She's seen here in a 2017 photo provided by Kevin Garber at MidAmerica Nazarene University in Olathe, Kansas. Kevin Garber/AP hide caption
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Arkansas farmer David Wildy inspects a field of soybeans that were damaged by dicamba. The pesticide ban is tied up in courts, leaving farmers uncertain about what to plant. Dan Charles/NPR hide caption
From left, Gavin Wright, Patrick Eugene Stein and Curtis Allen were convicted Wednesday of plotting to bomb a Kansas apartment complex housing Somali immigrants. Bo Rader/Wichita Eagle/TNS via Getty Images hide caption
Slide Fire Solutions announced Tuesday it will stop taking orders for its line of bump stock products on May 20, 2017. George Frey/Getty Images hide caption
An aerial view of Road 2, six months after Hurricane Maria, in Toa Alta, west of San Juan, Puerto Rico, on March 18. Ricardo Arduengo/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
The Rev. Sekinah Hamlin (left) of Greensboro, N.C., and the Rev. Dr. Jack Sullivan Jr., of Findlay, Ohio, were among the faith leaders protesting outside the payday lenders conference near Miami. Greg Allen/NPR hide caption
Cuban President Raul Castro waves to the room as First Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel, Castro's handpicked successor, claps at the National Assembly session Wednesday in Havana. STR/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
R. Kelly, performing on November 21, 2012 in New York City. The lawyer of a woman accusing Kelly of assault held a press conference on April 18, 2018 in Dallas, Texas, to announce he would be filing a federal civil complaint would be filed against the singer. Jason Kempin/Getty Images hide caption
Containers loaded with tons of sewage sludge sit simmering in the sun last week in Parrish, Ala. More than two months after the "poop train" rolled in from New York City, Parrish Mayor Heather Hall says the material is leaving town. Jay Reeves/AP hide caption
Earlonne Woods (left) and Nigel Poor are behind the podcast Ear Hustle, which is now in its second season. Courtesy of Ear Hustle/Radiotopia from PRX hide caption
There are variations in the appearance of severely bleached corals. Here, the coral displays pink fluorescing tissue signalling heat stress. ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies/ Gergely Torda hide caption
A member of the Victorville public works team clears tumbleweeds from homes in Victorville, Calif., on Monday. James Quigg/The Daily Press via AP hide caption
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket transporting the TESS satellite lifts off at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Wednesday. The satellite will scan nearly the entire sky for alien worlds John Raoux/AP hide caption
Police officer in Lawrence, Kan. watch thunderstorms move past the city in 2008. Orlin Wagner/AP hide caption
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Eddies behind an A. salina shrimp swimming Isabel Houghton / J.R. Strickler /courtesy of Stanford / University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee hide caption
How do we make sense of all that chatter? Ilana Kohn/Getty Images hide caption
How People Learned To Recognize Monkey Calls Reveals How We All Make Sense Of Sound
Asylum-seeker Allan Monga, 19, won Maine's Poetry Out Loud competition in March. But he's been barred from the national competition because he's not a citizen or permanent resident. Courtesy of the Maine Arts Commission hide caption
A man walks by an auto dealership in New York City on May 2, 2017. Studies have found that African-Americans and Hispanics have systematically been charged a higher markup on auto loans than white borrowers. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption
Researchers used a gene-carrying virus to fix blood stem cells that were then used to treat patients with beta-thalassemia. Power and Syred/Science Photo Library/Getty Images hide caption