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Vice President Pence speaks Friday during a briefing on COVID-19 at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. John Bazemore/AP hide caption
Signs promoting the 2020 census hang on a fence in Reading, Pa., in September. The Census Bureau has found irregularities in this year's census responses that could affect the counting of millions of people. Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images hide caption
President Bill Clinton applauds as Air Force pilot Scott O'Grady is welcomed home on June 12, 1995, at the Pentagon. O'Grady's F-16 was shot down on a mission over Bosnia and survived in the woods for six days before being rescued. President Trump recently nominated O'Grady for a senior Pentagon job, though O'Grady has been endorsing baseless conspiracy theories related to the election. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption
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Health care workers in Houston, Texas, perform a procedure on a patient in the COVID-19 intensive care unit on Thanksgiving. This past week has seen continued steep growth in cases, hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19. Go Nakamura/Getty Images hide caption
People are pictured demonstrating in June in favor of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Immigrant rights advocates hailed Friday's ruling allowing new applications as a "huge victory for people who have been waiting to apply for DACA for the first time." Damian Dovarganes/AP hide caption
Rescuers adjust an emergency generator at the Diaoshuidong coal mine in southwest China on Saturday after a carbon monoxide leak at the facility left 18 dead. Rescue efforts were underway to reach five others still trapped underground. AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Diosdado Cabello (left), a candidate in Venezuela's upcoming National Assembly elections, bumps fists with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro during a closing campaign rally in Caracas, Venezuela, on Thursday. Venezuelans will vote for a new National Assembly on Sunday. Ariana Cubillos/AP hide caption
Eight-year-old twins Kenley (left) and Anakin Gupta have struggled with loneliness during the pandemic, but the isolation has been much more acute for Kenley. Beth LaBerge/KQED hide caption
Dr. Amir Khalil, a veterinarian from the international animal welfare organization Four Paws International, comforts Kaavan during his examination at the zoo in Islamabad, before Kaavan is transported to Cambodia. Anjum Naveed/NPR hide caption
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Alice Marie Johnson, who had her sentence commuted by U.S. President Donald Trump. NurPhoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images hide caption
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A simulated image of the Chang'e-5 spacecraft blasting off from the moon. The Chinese National Space Administration placed China's first real flag on the lunar surface Thursday. Xinhua News Agency via AP hide caption
Pilar Quilantang Galang was one of more than 100 girls and women raped by members of the Japanese Imperial Army in the village of Mapaniqui on Nov. 23, 1944. She was 9 years old at the time. Even now, in her 80s, when she sees the ruins of the "Red House" (at rear of photo), where the rapes happened, she says, "I feel like I'm losing my mind. I wish it would be destroyed." Cheryl Diaz Meyer for NPR hide caption
Top: Kinston High School basketball player Taliyah Jones goes up for a shot. The girls basketball team was undefeated in their conference for the 2019-2020 season. Left: Sheriece Jones, Zykia Andrews and Quiaira Powell cheer for their teammates. Right: Sheriece Jones is helped up from the court by teammates Kahlia Hargett and Quiaira Powell during a game. Madeline Gray hide caption
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos appears in Phoenix in October. On Friday, the Education Department announced an extension of pandemic relief measures for federal student loan borrowers. Matt York/AP hide caption
President-elect Joe Biden speaks Friday about jobs at the Queen theater in Wilmington, Del. Andrew Harnik/AP hide caption
Four nights onstage in Berlin in 2018 are the subject of Nils Frahm's new concert film and soundtrack album, Tripping With Nils Frahm. Thomas Lallier/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
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Casuarina McKinney-Lambert with the Bahamas Reef Environment Educational Foundation says the group is concerned about the protential for a large spill. Arvind Vallabh /Getty Images hide caption
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Wilson County Commissioner Andy Miller says Dr. McKenney created a storm when she criticized President Trump's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Jim McLean/KCUR hide caption
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Michelle Lujan Grisham has been discussed as a possible head of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Toya Sarno Jordan/Getty Images hide caption
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Democratic Rep. Earl Blumenauer of Oregon has been pushing for federal decriminalization laws for years and argued Americans already showed support by voting to legalize cannabis in states across the country. House Television via AP hide caption
Toren McKnight of Central Point draws on the cement at the vigil for Aiden Ellison outside the Jackson County Courthouse in Medford, Ore., on Dec. 3. Erik Neumann /Jefferson Public Radio hide caption
Oregon Town Grapples With Shooting Death Of 19-Year-Old Aidan Ellison
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Elvis Presley receives a polio vaccine in New York City in 1956 in an effort to inspire public confidence in the vaccine. The Ad Council says it will be recruiting trusted influencers for its campaign around the coronavirus vaccine. AP hide caption
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A woman wears a hijab and an American flag mask during an Election Day celebration at Times Square on Saturday, Nov. 2020 in New York, NY. Joe Biden received a record-breaking 75 million votes during the 2020 Presidential Election against Donald Trump. NurPhoto via Getty Images hide caption
Majority of Muslims Voted For Biden, But Trump Got More Support Than He Did In 2016
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Gabriel Sterling with the Georgia Sec. of State's office pleaded Tuesday for a stop to conspiracy theories surrounding the election. John Bazemore/AP hide caption
Trump Fundraising Surges After Election As He Makes False Claims It Was Rigged
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The U.K. will begin a mass vaccination against COVID-19 on Tuesday, as hundreds of thousands of doses of Pfizer's vaccine reach the public. Here, a temperature-controlled cold storage truck leaves a Pfizer facility in Belgium Thursday. Geert Vanden Wijngaert/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Marines of the 5th and 7th regiments who hurled back a surprise onslaught by three Chinese communist divisions wait to withdraw from the Chosin Reservoir area circa December 1950. National Archives hide caption
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