Left, White House Senior Adviser Jared Kushner. Right, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Kushner and Mohammed have reportedly forged close ties focused on the Middle East peace process. Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post and Fayez Nureldine/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Seth Frotman, former student loan ombudsman at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, poses at NPR headquarters in September. Frotman and his team reviewed thousands of complaints about the questionable practices of student loan companies. Cameron Pollack/NPR hide caption
Eleanor Roosevelt's advice column — "If You Ask Me" — ran from 1941, when she was still first lady, to her death in 1962. She's pictured above in October 1957. AP hide caption
Spinney with Oscar the Grouch on the set of Sesame Street. Sesame Workshop hide caption
Cottonseed is full of protein but toxic to humans and most animals. The U.S. Department of Agriculture this week approved a genetically engineered cotton with edible seeds. They could eventually feed chickens, fish — or even people. Courtesy of Lacey Roberts/Texas A&M University hide caption
Cottonseed is full of protein but toxic to humans and most animals. The U.S. Department of Agriculture this week approved a genetically engineered cotton with edible seeds. They could eventually feed chickens, fish — or even people. Courtesy of Lacey Roberts/Texas A&M University hide caption
A British advertising watchdog group ruled on Wednesday that the Spotify horror ad is "likely to cause undue distress to children." Chester Bennington Original Source/Screenshot by NPR/Chester Bennington hide caption
Lance Erwin works with a neighbor in Mexico Beach, Fla., to repair parts of his roof after it was blown off by Hurricane Michael. Rules are looser in the Pandhandle, allowing construction that couldn't stand up to the storm's 155 mph winds. Greg Allen/NPR hide caption
The animal people in BoJack Horseman are the creation of illustrator and cartoonist Lisa Hanawalt. The bitterness, isolation, melancholy and cynicism is "my half of the equation," says show creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg. Netflix hide caption
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents serve an employment audit notice at a 7-Eleven convenience store in Los Angeles. California is divided over the state's new sanctuary law, which took effect earlier this year. Chris Carlson/AP hide caption
British Prime Minister Theresa May arrives to meet with EU leaders on Wednesday in Brussels. Sean Gallup/Getty Images hide caption
The authors of a new study on veterinarians and mental health say vet school should include more training on how to cope with the moral distress vets face when asked by pet owners to do things that are against their medical judgement. Anya Semenoff/Denver Post via Getty Images hide caption
Texas Democratic Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke, seen campaigning in Houston this month, has launched his first attack ads on Republican Sen. Ted Cruz as he tries to regain traction in the last weeks of the campaign. Loren Elliott/Getty Images hide caption
Iowa Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds poses with White House press secretary Sarah Sanders at a harvest-themed fundraiser in Des Moines on Oct. 13. Clay Masters/Iowa Public Radio hide caption
Schoolchildren are led through a dance routine at a U.S. government-supported childcare center in Raqqa. Greg Dixon/NPR hide caption
Evan Atar Adaha, surgeon and medical director at a hospital in South Sudan, accepts the U.N.'s Nansen Refugee Award in Geneva, on October 1. His wife, Angela Atar, is at right. Cyril Zingaro/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Alicia Goranson and Sara Gilbert play Becky and Darlene on ABC's The Conners. Eric McCandless/ABC hide caption
In this photograph of a Greenland research site, arrows indicate the structures that a 2016 team of paleontologists suggested were created by microbial life. Notice that while most of the structures point in one direction, the red arrow shows that some point in the other direction. That's a hint, other scientists now say, that these structures did not all grow upward from the sea floor. Courtesy of Abigail Allwood hide caption
A planter trims medicinal marijuana plants in Ontario in 2016. After months of preparation, Canada legalized recreational use of the drug on Wednesday. Lars Hagberg/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Gunfire and an explosion rocked a technical school in the Crimean city of Kerch on Wednesday. At least 17 people were killed and more than 40 others were wounded in the attack. TASS via Getty Images hide caption
A worker heads out to hand-feed fish at a Scottish salmon farm, a method that is unusual among fish farms. Eileen Guo for NPR hide caption
Gaston County Elections Director Adam Ragan tests equipment. Alexandra Olgin/WFAE hide caption
A view of New York City from the Empire State Building on Tuesday. The city just had its first weekend without a single shooting in at least 25 years. Theo Wargo/Getty Images hide caption
Employees work on the assembly line of the Tiguan model at the Volkswagen car plant in Puebla, central Mexico, in March. The auto sector is a key focus of the newly revised North American free trade agreement. Pedro Pardo/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
