People examine the damage after shelling of a shopping center, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Monday. Efrem Lukatsky/AP hide caption
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On Sept. 1, 2021, 7 inches of rain from the remains of Hurricane Ida hammered down on Cresskill Middle/High School in Bergen County, N.J. Superintendent Michael Burke walks through what's left of the media center. Mohamed Sadek for NPR hide caption
After 20 years of setbacks, the U.S. military court in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is exploring the idea of settlement talks for the 9/11 detainees. If that happens, the defendants could plead guilty, serve life in prison and avoid the death penalty. Mladen Antonov/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine warns of a sharp rise in online ads seeking truck drivers. Center For Countering Disinformation/Screenshot By NPR hide caption
Because space shuttle missions went up to repair and refurbish the Hubble Space Telescope, it has a relatively large carbon footprint compared to other telescopes. NASA hide caption
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Marta Hulievska (center), a freshman at Dartmouth College, is from the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia. Robert Gill/Dartmouth/Robert Gill hide caption
Ukrainian students in the U.S. watch a war on their homeland unfold from abroad
Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson speaks during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday. Jacquelyn Martin/AP hide caption
Vice President Kamala Harris looks at a hyperwall during a climate change discussion at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., on Nov. 5 , 2021. The SEC unveiled new proposals on Monday requiring companies to disclose climate-related risks. Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Ukrainians in Lviv show support for the residents and defenders of Mariupol on Saturday. Ukraine rejected Russia's calls to surrender the strategic southern port city. Alexey Furman/Getty Images hide caption
Ukrainian officials emphatically reject Russia's call to surrender besieged Mariupol
A single lot of Great Value Buttermilk Pancake & Waffle Mix, sold at Walmart, is being recalled due to "possible foreign material contamination." U.S. Food and Drug Administration hide caption
Congress is debating legislation banning lawmakers from trading individual stocks. There is already a Senate rule requiring committee aides to divest stocks of any businesses they oversee. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban at a press conference in Budapest on Feb. 17. Attila Kisbenedek/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A Russian court has declared Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, an extremist organization. WhatsApp is excluded from the ruling, however. KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Russia is restricting social media. Here's what we know
FILE - Residents watch as a China Eastern passenger jet prepares to take off on a test flight from the new Beijing Daxing International Airport on Monday, May 13, 2019. State media are reporting a Chinese airliner from China Eastern with 133 people on board crashed in the southern province of Guangxi on Monday. Ng Han Guan/AP hide caption
Shararah's 2021 Nowruz feast isn't possible this year because of a ban on the holiday by the Afghan government. Shararah hide caption
Volunteers connect I-beams to make anti-tank obstacles known as Czech hedgehogs, in a workshop in Lviv, western Ukraine, on March 3. Daniel Leal/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Anti-coup protesters are shown running around their makeshift barricade as they make a defense line during a demonstration in Yangon, Myanmar, on March 28, 2021. AP hide caption
Amanda Darrow, director of youth, family and education programs at the Utah Pride Center, poses with books, including The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison and Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison, that have been the subject of complaints from parents in Salt Lake City on Dec. 16, 2021. Rick Bowmer/AP hide caption
Nutritionist Shaunté Fields and bus driver Treva White, left, deliver meals to children and their families in Seattle. When schools closed because of COVID-19, Seattle Public Schools began distributing breakfast and lunch to students through a network of 26 school sites and 43 bus routes five days a week. Karen Ducey/Getty Images hide caption
Lee Yong-soo, a South Korean sexual slavery survivor who has been demanding since the early 1990s that the Japanese government fully accept culpability and offer an unequivocal apology, wipes her tear during an interview in Seoul, South Korea, on March 16, 2022. Lee Jin-man/AP hide caption
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, 73, has been at Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., since Friday, after experiencing "flu-like symptoms," the court said in a statement. Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP hide caption
Ye, aka Kanye West, is banned from performing at the Grammys
TV host Maury Povich is ending his talk show after more than three decades. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption
Police secure the area after an incident at a carnival in Strepy-Bracquenies, Belgium on Sunday. A car slammed at high speed into revelers, killing six people and leaving 10 more with life-threatening injuries. Olivier Matthys/AP hide caption
A person walks by Chicho's Pizza Backstage, in Norfolk, Va., where a fatal shooting took place outside the restaurant and bar early Saturday. Newspaper reporter Sierra Jenkins was one of the people killed during the shooting after getting caught in the crossfire. Stephen M. Katz/The Virginian-Pilot via AP hide caption
