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President Biden pledged to nominate a Black woman to the nation's highest court. Among the names being floated to replace Justice Stephen Breyer are California Supreme Court Justice Leondra Kruger (left) and Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. S. Todd Rogers/Pool/AP; Tom Williams/Pool/Getty Images hide caption
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Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer speaks as he announces his retirement in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington on Thursday as President Joe Biden looks on. Andrew Harnik/AP hide caption
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron give a joint press conference ahead of talks at the Chancellery on Tuesday in Berlin. Kay Nietfeld/Pool/Getty Images hide caption
Ash Barty of Australia celebrates winning her Women's Singles Semifinals match against Madison Keys of United States during day 11 of the 2022 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Thursday in Melbourne. Clive Brunskill/Getty Images hide caption
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The NIH is 'largely finished' moving its former research chimps to a sanctuary
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Denise Freeman (center), a former Lincoln County Board of Education member and community activist, calls a plan to consolidate polling places in the rural Georgia county "unconscionable." Stephen Fowler/Georgia Public Broadcasting hide caption
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U.S. Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman arrives at Joe Biden's inauguration at the Capitol in January 2021. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption
Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu is the head of the World Health Organization's newly created Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence. "We have to get better at convincing leaders to use the data we provide and not their political instinct or whatever else their decisions are based on. And that's not easy," he says. Afolabi Sotunde/Reuters hide caption
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A man receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a mobile vaccine clinic bus at the Grand Bazaar of Tehran, Iran, Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022. Vahid Salemi/AP hide caption
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During last year's high-profile union vote, an Amazon-branded tent cloaks a mailbox outside the company's warehouse in Bessemer, Ala. Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union hide caption
Amazon faces another union vote, this time at a Staten Island warehouse
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Amy Schneider's Jeopardy! reign ended Wednesday night. Casey Durkin/Sony Pictures Telev hide caption
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a meeting of the Central Committee of the ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Jan. 19. North Korea on Tuesday test-fired two suspected cruise missiles in its sixth round of weapons launches this month, South Korean military officials said. Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service/via AP hide caption
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Congregation Beth Israel Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, facing the camera, hugs a man after a healing service on Jan. 17, two days after he and three others were taken hostage at his Colleyville, Texas, synagogue. Yffy Yossifor/Star-Telegram/via AP hide caption
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Linsey Jones, a medical assistant working at a drive-up COVID-19 testing clinic, wears an N95 mask on Jan. 4, in Puyallup, Wash. The Biden administration will begin making 400 million N95 masks available for free to Americans starting this week. Ted S. Warren/AP hide caption
