The stage is set Wednesday for the first night of the Democratic presidential debate. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption
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Border Patrol is refusing to accept donations like toothpaste and soap to its detention centers. Reynaldo Leaños Jr./Texas Public Radio hide caption
Walmart and Amazon began offering online purchases with food stamps in April as part of the USDA's pilot program. Now, both companies are expanding services for low-income shoppers. David J. Phillip/AP hide caption
Betty Who performs a Tiny Desk Concert on May 29, 2019 (Shuran Huang/NPR). Shuran Huang/NPR hide caption
Bill Wehrum, the Environmental Protection Agencys top air policy official, said he is stepping down at the end of June. Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post/Getty Images hide caption
Participants of the Wayfair walkout gathered in Copley Square in Boston on Wednesday. Scott Eisen/Getty Images hide caption
The Senate passed a $4.6 billion emergency humanitarian aid package Wednesday to cover the costs of the influx of migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border. Mark Tenally/Associated Press hide caption
Rosa Ramirez cries as she looks at photos of her son Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez, 25, and granddaughter Valeria, nearly 2, while speaking to journalists at her home in San Martin, El Salvador on Tuesday. The drowned bodies of her son and granddaughter were found Monday morning on the banks of the Rio Grande. Antonio Valladares/AP hide caption
Drag queen and songwriter Trixie Mattel's roséwave playlist includes songs by Dusty Springfield, The Zombies and a handful of musical drag queens. Cyriel Jacobs/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Broward County Sheriff Gregory Tony, seen in January, has announced the firings of two more deputies over their failure to act during the 2018 shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. Wilfredo Lee/AP hide caption
Dr. Rebekah Gee, secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health, negotiated a deal with a drugmaker to get the state a better price for expensive hepatitis C medications for its Medicaid and prison populations. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call Inc. hide caption
Saleh Abbas, deputy grand imam of Egypt's Al-Azhar University, is second from the left in this photo of members of the university delegation to the African Summit on Female Genital Mutilation and Child Marriages. Louis Leeson hide caption
A file photo from Jan. 15, 2011, shows Iran's heavy water nuclear facility near Arak. Iran plans to walk back modifications to a nuclear reactor at the site. Hamid Foroutan/AP hide caption
Marchers at a candlelight vigil in San Francisco, Calif., carry a banner to call attention to the continuing battle against AIDS on May 29, 1989. The city was home to the nation's first AIDS special care unit. The unit, which opened in 1983, is the subject the documentary 5B. Jason M. Grow/AP hide caption
1st AIDS Ward '5B' Fought To Give Patients Compassionate Care, Dignified Deaths
Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo is a social media personality. He's also the leader of the paramilitary group that attacked thousands of pro-democracy protesters on June 3, leaving more than a 100 dead. STR/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Nearly 9 in 10 Americans say people are more likely to express anger on social media than in person. Karrastock/Getty Images hide caption
When We Were Arabs: A Jewish Family's Forgotten History, by Massoud Hayoun The New Press hide caption
Chef Jay Fai wears a wool cap and bug-eye safety goggles to ward off the heat from the charcoal fires in in the alley where she cooks all of the restaurant's meals. She is so much a perfectionist that she doesn't let anyone on her staff do the cooking. Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
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