President Donald Trump congratulates a U.S. Naval Academy midshipman Friday in Annapolis, Md. Evan Vucci/AP hide caption
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Former University of Southern California President C.L. Max Nikias at commencement ceremonies in 2017. Richard Vogel/AP hide caption
Leo Varadkar, Ireland's prime minister, or taoiseach, leaves a Dublin polling station after casting his vote in Friday's referendum. Varadkar has campaigned aggressively for repealing Ireland's abortion ban, but the vote's results are expected to be close. Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images hide caption
A couple in Portland, Ore., discovered that their Amazon Echo had recorded their conversation and sent it to one of their contacts. Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images hide caption
A man holds his hands together in prayer at the reconciliation meeting in Henganofi. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
In Papua New Guinea's Sorcery Wars, A Peacemaker Takes On Her Toughest Case
Swedish parliament passed a law on Wednesday ruling sex without consent is rape. AGF/UIG via Getty Images hide caption
A recent study shows mussels in Puget Sound have tested positive for trace amounts of the opioid oxycodone. David Silverman/Getty Images hide caption
French President Emmanuel Macron (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin attend a meeting with Russian and French business people during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on Friday. Dmitry Lovetsky/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Law enforcement officers usher a handcuffed Harvey Weinstein into the courthouse for his arraignment in Manhattan on Friday. Steven Ferdman/Getty Images hide caption
Women Accuse Morgan Freeman Of Harassment, Inappropriate Behavior, CNN Reports
"We made the soundtrack for those who are the purist in everybody," Pusha says. Neilson Barnard/Getty Images hide caption
A policeman puts up crime scene tape around the scene of a shooting on the east side of Lake Hefner in Oklahoma City, Okla on Thursday. Police say an armed gunman injured three people at a restaurant before being shot dead by two armed civilians outside. Sarah Phipps/The Oklahoman via AP hide caption
Widely perceived as fierce guardians of health care spending, insurers, in many cases, aren't. In fact, they often agree to pay high prices, then pass them along to patients. Justin Volz for ProPublica hide caption
Some personal injury law firms now automatically target online ads at anyone who enters a nearby hospital's emergency room and has a cellphone. The ads may show up on multiple devices for more than a month. sshepard/Getty Images hide caption
Digital Ambulance Chasers? Law Firms Send Ads To Patients' Phones Inside ERs
Picnic at Hanging Rock was written by Joan Lindsay in 1967, and made into a very moody and memorable movie by director Peter Weir in 1975. Now, a new TV miniseries picks up the story of an ill-fated picnic in rural, turn-of-the-century Australia. Xinger Xanger Photography /Amazon Prime Video hide caption
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Zan (Elle Fanning), an alien, starts a romance with Enn (Alex Sharp), a British punk, in How to Talk to Girls at Parties. Dean Rogers/Courtesy of A24 hide caption
John Cameron Mitchell On Punks, Aliens And The Queerness Of 'How To Talk To Girls'
"We proved to the world that a completely Spanish song can take over the world," J Balvin says. "This is just the beginning." Orli Arias/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
J Balvin Won't Settle For Anything Less Than World Domination
In this photo taken and released Friday by the Taiwan Ministry of National Defense, a Taiwanese Air Force fighter aircraft (left) flies near a Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force bomber. Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen said this week that the island will step up security to respond to military threats from China. The watermark says "Military News Agency." Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense via AP hide caption
A small bag of straight fentanyl on display at the State Crime Lab at the Ohio Attorney General's headquarters of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation in 2015. Nebraska police say they seized 118 pounds of fentanyl in April. The Washington Post/Getty Images hide caption
With a Twitter post encouraging voters to vote from home displayed behind him, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn. questions witnesses during an October 2017 Senate hearing on Russian disinformation during the 2016 campaign. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption
