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A display at Hello Kitty's Kawaii Paradise in Tokyo. Sanrio's new president and CEO Tomokuni Tsuji will be steering a company that has seen slumping revenues in recent years. Hitoshi Yamada/NurPhoto via Getty Images hide caption
The death chamber, equipped for lethal injection, at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., is shown in this April 1995 photo. Federal executions are set to resume on Monday. CHUCK ROBINSON/ASSOCIATED PRESS hide caption
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that about half of the land in Oklahoma is within an Indian reservation as stated in treaties. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms addresses a Democratic National Committee event in June 2019 in Atlanta. The mayor is considered a contender for Joe Biden's vice presidential pick. Dustin Chambers/Getty Images hide caption
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Russian President Vladimir Putin (second from left) meets military officials, including Igor Kostyukov (far right), the deputy chief of military intelligence, the GRU. The 2018 event in Moscow marked the centenary of the GRU, which has been involved in many major operations in recent years. U.S. intelligence suspects of the GRU of involvement in a reported bounty program in Afghanistan. Alexei Druzhinin/Sputnik/Kremlin Pool Photo via AP hide caption
Voice of America, part of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, has increasingly been a target of the Trump administration. Andrew Harnik/AP hide caption
President Trump is not pleased with the Supreme Court's decision Thursday that his financial records have to be turned over to a New York grand jury. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption
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World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at a meeting last week at WHO headquarters in Geneva. Tedros says the coronavirus "thrives on division." Fabrice Coffrini/Pool/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Hadiyah-Nicole Green and Tenika Floyd at their StoryCorps interview in Atlanta in January 2017. Jacqueline Van Meter for StoryCorps hide caption
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Summer Poll judge Andrea Davis Pinkney says the first book she remembers her parents reading out loud was Ezra Jack Keats' classic The Snowy Day. Christine Simmons/Scholastic hide caption
State Rep. Nino Vitale, R-Urbana, at a news conference in Columbus, Ohio, in 2016. Ann Sanner/AP hide caption
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Rufus Wainwright's new album is called Unfollow the Rules. He says the title comes from something his daughter said to him, and which he uses to express the need to reexamine the world. Tony Hauser/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
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In the Hulu series, Taste the Nation, Padma Lakshmi showcases the different immigrant and indigenous communities that contributed to American cuisine. Dominic Valente/Hulu hide caption
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Attendants refill teacups as Chen Quanguo (center), Communist Party secretary of China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, listens to a speaker during a group discussion meeting on the sidelines of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, on March 12, 2019. The Politburo member is one of the subjects of new U.S. sanctions over human rights abuses in the region. Mark Schiefelbein/AP hide caption
Azia Toussaint helps paint a Black Lives Matter mural on Fifth Avenue in front of Trump Tower on Thursday in New York. Mark Lennihan/AP hide caption
Gov. Jim Justice, W.Va., waves to the crowd at his annual State of the State speech on Jan. 9, 2019, in Charleston, W.Va. Tyler Evert/AP hide caption
The late rapper Juice WRLD. His posthumous full-length, Legends Never Die, tops our list of the best new albums out this week. Courtesy of the artist hide caption
KiKi Layne, Luca Marinelli, Charlie Theron, and Marwan Kenzari are part of The Old Guard in Netflix's film of the same name. Netflix hide caption
The "Confusion" mini-wardrobe, designed to express the conflicting feelings sparked by social media. Casper Kofi hide caption
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper (left) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley testify before a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Thursday. Pool/Getty Images hide caption
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Michael Cohen arriving at his Manhattan apartment after being released from federal prison on furlough due to medical concerns related to Covid-19 in May. David Dee Delgado/Getty Images hide caption
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