Ambassador William Taylor is the first witness to appear in the first public impeachment hearing on Wednesday. He's a career diplomat who outlined the effort to get Ukraine's president to commit to political investigations in return for military assistance. Andrew Harnik/AP hide caption
The Supreme Court has denied Remington Arms Co.'s attempt to end a lawsuit filed by families who lost loved ones in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in 2012. In this 2013 photo, Connecticut State Police Det. Barbara J. Mattson holds a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle, the same type of gun used by Adam Lanza in the shooting, during a hearing at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford, Conn. Jessica Hill/AP hide caption
Iran's Lake Urmia has shriveled because of water mismanagement. Here, a man walks in what used to be a river to the lake, now just salt. Maximilian Mann hide caption
A tourist from Tabriz takes a selfie while her husband swims. Mann wanted this photo to show that "to make pictures is also to keep memories." Maximilian Mann hide caption
Former President Jimmy Carter is having surgery to relieve pressure on his brain Tuesday. He's seen here earlier this month, teaching Sunday school at his church in Plains, Ga. John Amis/AP hide caption
The Supreme Court hears arguments Tuesday in a case testing the legality of the DACA program. Carolyn Kaster/AP hide caption
Maya Rockeymoore Cummings speaks during funeral services for the late U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings last month in Baltimore. Julio Cortez/AP hide caption
If Pete Buttigieg, 37, won the U.S. presidency, he would be the youngest person to hold the office. But so far, his campaign appeals slightly more to older voters than younger ones. Above, he speaks on Sept. 16 in Galivants Ferry, S.C. Meg Kinnard/AP hide caption
A new book by anthropologist and physician Kimberly Sue tells the stories of women navigating opioid addiction during and after incarceration. Catie Dull/NPR hide caption
Leslie Odom Jr. plays a Tiny Desk Concert Ben de la Cruz/NPR hide caption
A marijuana plant grows in California's Shasta Trinity National Forest. This plant is part of an illegal growing operation done by highly organized drug cartels, who take advantage of the forests' thick canopy to help hide their operation. Eric Westervelt/NPR hide caption
Reporter Darius Rafieyan gets his makeup done at a Sephora store in New York City. A growing number of American men are dabbling in cosmetics. Nadia Lewis/NPR hide caption
Tanya Tucker performing live at the AmericanaFest Day Stage presented by NPR Music, WMOT and World Cafe. Val Hoeppner/WMOT hide caption
A protester is detained in Hong Kong Nov. 11, 2019. Hong Kong is in the sixth month of protests that began in June over a proposed extradition law and grown to include other grievances. Kin Cheung/AP hide caption
Family and friends attend a funeral service on Saturday to remember Christina Langford Johnson, a victim of an ambush that killed nine American women and children earlier this week, in Colonia Le Baron, Mexico. Marco Ugarte/AP hide caption
Nearly 30 years after its last documented sighting, a silver-backed chevrotain was spotted by a camera set up in the forest of southern Vietnam. Southern Institute of Ecology/Global Wildlife Conservation/Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research/NCNP hide caption
Liliana Segre waves at the end of a meeting with students in Milan, Italy, in 2018. For decades, Segre, 89, was reluctant to discuss her time in Auschwitz. But in the 1990s, she began speaking to schoolchildren throughout Italy about the Holocaust. Luca Bruno/AP hide caption
Senate second Vice President Jeanine Añez as she arrives to Congress in La Paz on Monday. She says she will lead the Senate after its president resigned, which could make her next in line for the presidency. Natacha Pisarenko/AP hide caption
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off Monday from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station carrying 60 Starlink satellites. The Starlink constellation eventually will consist of thousands of satellites designed to provide worldwide high-speed Internet service. NurPhoto via Getty Images hide caption
A firefighter battles a wall of flames Friday in Woodford, New South Wales. Dan Himbrechts/AP hide caption
Ahead of the 2020 elections, 20 Republican House members have said they will not seek reelection, including (from left) Republican Reps. Will Hurd of Texas, Martha Roby of Alabama, Pete Olson of Texas and Rob Woodall of Georgia. Bill Clark, Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Getty Images hide caption
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