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A plume of smoke stretches from North America across more than 2,000 miles of the Atlantic Ocean in the latest international impact from Canada's large and persistent wildfires. NASA Earth Observatory hide caption
Ryan Seacrest will become the host of the famous Wheel of Fortune game show in 2024. He's seen here at this year's Academy Awards in Hollywood. Arturo Holmes/Getty Images hide caption
A noose is seen on makeshift gallows as supporters of Donald Trump rioted at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Bethany Birch paid more than $5,200 toward her medical debt after getting sued by Ballad Health in 2018. Owing to a Tennessee court judgment, she accrued an additional $2,700 in interest over that time. Maddy Alewine/KFF Health News hide caption
Laura Dern, right, and her mother Diane Ladd have adapted a series of their conversations into the new book Honey, Baby, Mine. They are pictured above in Los Angeles in 2015. Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP hide caption
Houstonians cool off at the Emancipation Swimming Pool on July 19. Texas is one of many places in the U.S. under excessive heat warnings. Brandon Bell/Getty Images hide caption
This March 28, 2017, photo provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry shows Jeffrey Epstein. New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP hide caption
Chow takes part in the annual Toronto Pride Parade on June 25. Harold Feng/Getty Images hide caption
Pamela Dias remembers her daughter, Ajike Owens, as mourners gather for a remembrance service June 8 at Immerse Church of Ocala in Ocala, Fla. Susan Louise Lorincz, the white woman accused of firing through her door and fatally shooting Owens in front of her 9-year-old son in central Florida, was charged Monday with manslaughter and assault. Alan Youngblood/AP hide caption
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Jolien Boumkwo competed in the 100-meter hurdles at the European Athletics Team Championships, in Chorchow, Silesia, Poland, this weekend, answering her team's call for help in securing two points in the competition. Erik Van Leeuwen/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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Syed Ali Raza and Rukhsana Jafri hold up a photograph of their son, Zain, who is missing after the migrant shipwreck. The family lives in Budho Kalas village, Punjab province, where Zain was a police officer. He had quit his job to start a business that wasn't profitable enough, then set off on an illegal migration to Europe for more lucrative employment. Betsy Joles for NPR hide caption
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Muslim pilgrims circumambulate around the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, during the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Monday, before heading to Mina. Hajj is the fifth pillar of Islam and one of the largest religious gatherings in the world. Amr Nabil/AP hide caption
Standing where Prophet Muhammad gave his final sermon, 2 million Muslims perform Hajj
This 2014 photo made available by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a feeding female Anopheles gambiae mosquito. The species is a known vector for the parasitic disease malaria. James Gathany/AP hide caption
Pakistan's law and justice minister, Azam Nazeer Tarar, seen here in April in Islamabad, said in an interview with NPR that Pakistan's use of an anti-terrorism law is "fully compliant with international guarantees for free trial" and said those accused have the right to "engage counsel of their choice." He expects it will take "a few months" for trials to wrap up. Anjum Naveed/AP hide caption
In this handout photo taken from video released by Prigozhin Press Service, Yevgeny Prigozhin, the owner of the Wagner Group military company, records his video addresses in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, Saturday, June 24, 2023. AP hide caption
Dan Digre, CEO of MISCO, on the factory floor in St. Paul, Minn. on May 18, 2023. Andrea Ellen Reed for NPR hide caption
The Smithfield feed processing mill producing food for nearby hog-raising farms in Milford, Utah. Jon G. Fuller/VW Pics/ Universal Images Group via Getty Images hide caption
Activists gather to protest against a planned release of water from the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant in Japan, in Seoul, South Korea, on Saturday. Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Rep. Jamie Raskin at his home in Takoma Park, Md. on June 12, 2023. Catie Dull/NPR hide caption
Nucor makes steel sheets and beams at its plant in Berkeley County, S.C. Michael Copley/NPR hide caption
Movie-goers evacuate the Century Rio movie theater as officers respond to a shooting at the theater located at 4901 Pan American freeway in northeast Albuquerque, N.M., on Sunday, June 25, 2023. Chancey Bush/AP hide caption
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From left, Laura Ingraham, Jesse Watters, Sean Hannity and Greg Gutfeld make up Fox News' prime time lineup. AP hide caption
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Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach said state agencies plan to stop issuing gender marker changes due to SB 180. Blaise Mesa/Kansas News Service hide caption
A sprawling memorial sprang up outside of Colorado Springs' Club Q in November after the police tape was removed from its perimeter. Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite hide caption