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Travelers self test for COVID-19 at a mobile testing site at New York's Penn Station in the days leading up to Thanksgiving. The U.S. is currently seeing record hospitalizations for the virus, and health experts fear more surges are on their way. Mary Altaffer/AP hide caption
After a highly fraught but largely interference-free election, there are big questions for the future of election security. Marcus Marritt for NPR hide caption
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, right, tours a temporary hospital site in April with his wife Maria Lee. The overflow hospital, intended to help with the surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations, won't be able to take patients if there aren't additional doctors and nurses available to provide treatment. Theresa Montgomery/TN Photo Services hide caption
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Leopoldo Luque, the neurosurgeon of former soccer star Diego Maradona, is being investigated by Argentine prosecutors after questions over Maradona's death were raised. Javier Gonzalez Toledo/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Buildings and homes were flooded after Hurricane Laura hit near Lake Charles, La., in August. Five named storms came ashore in Louisiana in 2020 — part of a record-setting Atlantic hurricane season. David J. Phillip/AP hide caption
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Thousands of protestors across France hit the streets Saturday to condemn police brutality and a proposed law that would make it harder to publicize images of on-duty police officers. ALAIN JOCARD/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Sunday that the city will no longer use its previous threshold for closing schools. Andrew Burton/Getty Images hide caption
Police officers in Ferguson, Mo., during a protest in 2014. Advocates want the Justice Department to step up its oversight of law enforcement in the incoming administration. Charlie Riedel/AP hide caption
An election official pauses during the ballot recount earlier this month at the Wisconsin Center in Milwaukee. After recounts in Milwaukee and Dane counties, President-elect Joe Biden narrowly increased his winning margin over President Trump. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption
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People attend a funeral for those killed by suspected Boko Haram militants in Zabarmari, Nigeria on Sunday. Officials say armed men on motorcycles reportedly killed at least 70 rice farmers and fishermen while they were harvesting crops in northern Borno state. Jossy Ola/AP hide caption
Canadian Minister of Health Patty Hajdu, pictured in 2016, announced a new rule in response to a U.S. plan to import drugs from Canada. Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Iranian protesters burn images of President Trump and President-elect Joe Biden during a rally in front of the foreign ministry Saturday in Tehran. Iranian leaders have blamed Israel and its close ally, the U.S., for the assassination of a top Iranian nuclear scientist. Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Staff extinguish flames from Haas driver Romain Grosjean of France's car after a crash during the Formula One race in Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir, Bahrain, Sunday. Brynn Lennon/AP hide caption
English actor David Prowse, who played Darth Vader in the first Star Wars trilogy poses with a fan dressed up in a Darth Vader costume during a Star Wars convention on April 27, 2013. Prowse died in 2020, at the age of 85. THIERRY ZOCCOLAN/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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