Jacob Alexander, 14, receives her Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine at a mobile vaccine clinic hosted by Mothers in Action and operated by the Los Angeles County of Public Health on July 16. COVID-19 cases across America are rising in all 50 states as the Delta variant spreads with about half the US population yet to be fully vaccinated. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
American commentator Ben Shapiro is seen on set during a taping of "Candace" on March 17 in Nashville. Jason Kempin/Getty Images hide caption
In this image from U.S. Capitol Police video, Paul Hodgkins of Tampa, Fla., stands in the well on the floor of the U.S. Senate on Jan. 6. On Monday he was sentenced to eight months in prison. U.S. Capitol Police via AP hide caption
A U.S. military guard tower stands on the perimeter of the detainee camp on September 16, 2010, in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. There are now 39 detainees remaining after the prisoner transfer on July 19, 2021. John Moore/Getty Images hide caption
Vermont-based Ben & Jerry's said it will stop sales of its ice cream in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories. Toby Talbot/AP hide caption
Gente de Zona's "Patria y Vida" (pictured, right: Randy Malcom in Miami) reclaims a slogan made popular at the birth of the Cuban revolution, "Patria o Muerte" (Homeland or Death), 62 years ago. Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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People ride past the Presidential Palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated on July 7 and a subsequent power struggle between the interim prime minister and one Moise had appointed before his death appears to have been settled. Valerie Baeriswyl/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Luke Prokop, a prospect for the Nashville Predators, came out as gay on Monday. He was the first player under contract to an NHL team to do so. Marissa Baecker/Getty Images hide caption
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Empty seats are seen in the House Chamber at the Texas Capitol, Tuesday, July 13, 2021, in Austin, Texas. Texas Democrats left the state to block sweeping new election laws, while Republican Gov. Greg Abbott threatened them with arrest the moment they return. Eric Gay/AP hide caption
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Hatice Cengiz, the fiancee of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, talks to members of the media in Istanbul in 2020. Amnesty International reported that its forensic researchers had determined that NSO Group's flagship Pegasus spyware was successfully installed on the phone of Cengiz, just four days after Khashoggi was killed. Emrah Gurel/AP hide caption
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Gloria Richardson, then the head of the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee, pushes a National Guardsman's bayonet aside as she moves among a crowd of African Americans to convince them to disperse in Cambridge, Md., in 1963. Richardson, whose determination not to back down while protesting racial inequality, died Thursday in New York, according to her family. She was 99. AP hide caption
This Dec. 30, 2019, image from security camera video shows Michael L. Taylor, center, and George-Antoine Zayek at passport control at Istanbul Airport in Turkey. A Tokyo court handed down prison terms for the American father Michael Taylor and son Peter accused of helping Nissan's former chairman, Carlos Ghosn, escape to Lebanon while awaiting trial in Japan. AP hide caption
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