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A 17-year-old receives a first dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine at a mobile vaccination clinic during a back to school event offering school supplies, Covid-19 vaccinations, face masks, and other resources for children and their families at the Weingart East Los Angeles YMCA in Los Angeles, California on August 7, 2021. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Jelani Day went missing on Aug. 24. LaSalle County Coroner Richard Ploch says Day's official cause of death was drowning. Bloomington (Ill.) Police hide caption
Actor Alec Baldwin, seen in 2015. Experts predict a tremendous legal fallout after Baldwin pulled the trigger on a gun used as a prop while filming Rust in New Mexico and unwittingly killed a cinematographer and injured a director. Seth Wenig/AP hide caption
Sara Blakely (shown here in 2013) founded Spanx in 2020. It was valued at $1.3 billion in a recent sale. Paul Morigi/Getty Images North America hide caption
Booster shots are now recommended for millions of Americans. Alejandra Villa Loarca/Newsday via Getty Images hide caption
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Dozens of students have been camped outside the Blackburn University Center since Oct. 12 in protest of unsanitary living conditions at Howard University. Elliot C. Williams/WAMU hide caption
Washington Secretary of State Kim Wyman on Tuesday was named to a top post overseeing election security within the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Ted S. Warren/AP hide caption
Comedian Mort Sahl cracks a joke at a press conference in London on July 10, 1961. Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption
The ferris wheel Ain Dubai in the Gulf Emirate of Dubai on Jan. 18, 2020. Giuseppe Cacace/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., arrives at the U.S. Capitol on Oct. 5. Her opposition to Democrats' proposed spending package is forcing changes, but her specific positions have been hard to pin down. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images hide caption
White Earth Tribal Historic Preservation Officer Jaime Arsenault and tribal elder Joe LaGarde are part of a group working to address the generational trauma that is a result of boarding schools. Dan Gunderson/MPR News hide caption
A military police officer walks near a destroyed gate in Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael on Oct. 12, 2018. The Pentagon says climate change is a national security concern. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
President Biden has nominated Gigi Sohn (left) as an FCC commissioner and Jessica Rosenworcel as chair of the commission. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption
Emails show that the firing of Tennessee's former vaccination director, Michelle Fiscus, caught the state's top health leaders off guard and sent them scrambling for answers. Meanwhile the health commissioner fumed over the praise fellow coworkers heaped on the ousted employee. AP hide caption
Katie Couric, shown here in 2016, reflects on the successes and setbacks she's experienced as a journalist in her new memoir, Going There. Mike Windle/Getty Images hide caption
A paramilitary vehicle passes the front gate of Government Medical College in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir on Tuesday. Police have registered two separate cases under harsh anti-terror law against students and some staff of two medical colleges for celebrating Pakistan's victory over archrival India in a T20 World Cup cricket game. Mukhtar Khan/AP hide caption
A man attempts to stay dry while riding in Pasadena, Calif., during a rainstorm on Monday. Sarah Reingewirtz/AP hide caption
Mount Elbert, the tallest peak in the Rocky Mountains, is seen here reflected in Twin Lakes near Leadville, Colorado. A hiker on the mountain didn't answer rescuers' phone calls because the number was unfamiliar. Lightvision, LLC/Getty Images hide caption
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