Climate activist and Pajaro Valley High School senior Denia Escutia, 18, looks around her mud-coated bedroom in Pajaro, California on March 24, 2023. Days earlier, residents began returning to their homes after a levee breach flooded the area several weeks earlier. Kori Suzuki/Kori Suzuki / KQED News hide caption
For over 20 years, Dr. Daniel Bausch has responded to disease outbreaks, spending months at a time treating patients with diseases such as dengue, yellow fever, Lassa fever and Ebola. Now he's focusing on the importance of diagnostics. It's "one of the key aspects of preparedness," he says. Shuran Huang for NPR hide caption
Former President Donald Trump faces a lawsuit from E. Jean Carroll, an advice columnist who says he raped her in a department store in the mid-1990s. Trump denies the allegations. A trial is set to begin later this month. Seth Wenig/AP; Rebecca Blackwell/AP hide caption
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Benjamin Ferencz, Romanian-born American lawyer and chief prosecutor of the Nuremberg war crimes trials, speaks during an opening ceremony for the exhibition commemorating the Nuremberg war crimes trials in Nuremberg, Germany, on Nov. 21, 2010. Armin Weigel/AP hide caption
To avoid some of the worst impacts of climate change, greenhouse gas emissions need to be eliminated or offset by midcentury, according to the United Nations. To get there, activist investors say banks and insurance companies need to account for the emissions they contribute to by underwriting and investing in fossil fuel infrastructure like this natural gas plant in California. David McNew/Getty Images hide caption
Businesses face more and more pressure from investors to act on climate change
Former President Donald Trump in court for his arraignment in New York Tuesday. The judge overseeing the case did not issue a gag order. Instead he warned against saying or doing anything that could incite violence, create civil unrest or jeopardize the safety or well-being of any individuals. Steven Hirsch/AP hide caption
Israeli police escort Jewish visitors marking the holiday of Passover to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as the Temple Mount, in the Old City of Jerusalem during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on Sunday, April 9, 2023. Mahmoud Illean/AP hide caption
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A freeway sign over Interstate 5 in Los Angeles flashes a message about a child abduction as part of the statewide Amber Alert program in August 2002. California state Sen. Steven Bradford has proposed a bill to create a special "Ebony Alert" system for missing Black women, girls and youth in the state. David McNew/Getty Images hide caption
U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpls. Chris Covington (left) and Carlos Gomez Perez recover from shrapnel and bullet wounds on April 27, 2004, after Iraqi insurgents attacked near Fallujah, Iraq. Just two weeks earlier, Covington and Gomez Perez helped evacuate wounded Marines and soldiers after a deadly explosion rocked a schoolhouse in Fallujah. Scott Peterson/Getty Images hide caption