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This year, there were attempts to restrict ballot initiatives in at least a dozen states Kaitlyn Radde and Laura Benshoff/NPR hide caption
Households can order four free COVID tests on COVIDtests.gov starting on Thursday. They'll begin shipping by mail next week. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption
Aaron Dean sits by himself during a recess after he was found guilty of manslaughter in the shooting death of Atatiana Jefferson, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022, at the Tim Curry Criminal Justice Center in Fort Worth, Texas. Jefferson was fatally shot in Oct. 2019 when Dean, a former Fort Worth police officer, answered an open structure call at her residence. Amanda McCoy/Fort Worth Star-Telegram via AP hide caption
Mia Rose, a trans person of color and former licensed firearms dealer, holds her custom-built AR-15 rifle in her home in Eugene, Ore., on Dec. 12, 2022. Celeste Noche for NPR hide caption
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Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. The parent company of Facebook says bad actors are increasingly using realistic faces generated with artificial intelligence to run social media influence operations. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption
Joe Glorioso surveys the damage to the roof of his home in Gretna, La. Carly Berlin/WWNO hide caption
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A chimp walks at Chimp Haven in Louisiana. A federal judge has ruled that the NIH violated the law when it chose not to move former research chimpanzees in New Mexico to the sanctuary. Gerald Herbert/AP hide caption
A long row of double-stacked shipping containers provide a new wall between the United States and Mexico in the remote section of San Rafael Valley, Ariz., on Dec. 8, 2022. Ross D. Franklin/AP hide caption
This photo provided by Harvard University shows Claudine Gay. Harvard University announced Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022, that Gay will become its 30th president, making her the first Black person to lead the Ivy League school and only the second woman. Stephanie Mitchell/AP hide caption
Fishermen in Zarzis, Tunisia, sometimes find bodies of people who have tried to cross the Mediterranean Sea to find better opportunities abroad. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
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Oregon Gov. Kate Brown, pictured in San Francisco in October, commuted the sentences of all 17 people on death row on her way out of office. Jeff Chiu/AP hide caption
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown explains why she commuted all of her state's death sentences
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and other lawmakers have introduced legislation that would ban TikTok in the U.S. over national security concerns. The U.S. Senate unanimously approved a separate bill that would ban the wildly popular app from devices issued by federal agencies. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption
Memorial for 19 students and two faculty members placed outside of Robb Elementary School on May 26, 2022. Patricia Lim/TPR hide caption
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Travelers at Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station in Shanghai, China on Dec. 12. China's public health officials say up to 800 million people could be infected with the coronavirus over the next few months. Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
COVID spreading faster than ever in China. 800 million could be infected this winter
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Alexandre Desplat scores 'joyous melancholy' in Guillermo del Toro's 'Pinocchio'
After breaking his hip over the summer, Sen. Patrick Leahy initially returned to Congress in a wheelchair. He now walks with a cane, seen here as he moves between the Russell Senate Office Building and the U.S. Capitol. Elodie Reed/Vermont Public hide caption
Phillip Sollomi III and Phillip Sollomi Jr. sit with Wish-Bone Italian salad dressing, created by Phillip Sollomi Sr. in 1948. Carlos Moreno/KCUR 89.3 hide caption
Price tags are displayed at a New York City supermarket on Dec. 14. Inflation has eased recently, but more evidence is needed to show that price increases are coming down in the long term, Fed Chair Powell said Wednesday. YUKI IWAMURA/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Caitlyn Houston kisses her seven-week-old daughter, Parker, as they wait in the ER for a hospital bed to open up on Dec. 7 at Corewell Health Helen DeVos Children's Hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan. "There's so many kids in here that they have to take the ones that are really bad," Houston said. Lester Graham/Michigan Radio hide caption
Children's hospitals are struggling to cope with a surge of respiratory illness
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Left: France's Olivier Giroud and Antoine Griezmann celebrate after winning a World Cup semifinal match on Wednesday, Dec. 14, in Al Khor, Qatar. Right: Argentina's Lionel Messi and Julián Álvarez celebrate after scoring during a World Cup semifinal match with Croatia on Tuesday, Dec. 13, in Lusail, Qatar. Francisco Seco/AP; Martin Meissner/AP hide caption
Used tires stacked at a Goodyear auto service location in South San Francisco, Calif., on July, 2020. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican who's seen here on Oct. 25, is the ultimate decider of the state's presidential primary date. At right is Gabriel Sterling, chief operating officer in Raffensperger's office. Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images hide caption
An early Democratic presidential primary in Georgia depends on Republicans
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Retail spending dipped in November compared to October, as holiday sales bit into inflation. Isabel Pavia/Getty Images hide caption
The U.S. Capitol is seen in Washington, D.C., early Dec. 14, 2022. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption
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Israel's Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in Jerusalem on Nov. 13 after being assigned the task of forming a government. Maya Alleruzzo/AP hide caption
'They are joining me. I'm not joining them': Netanyahu defends far-right allies
Counter-protesters carrying Black Lives Matter flags walk past a group of Trump supporters at the Michigan State Capitol building in November 2020 in Lansing, Mich. John Moore/Getty Images hide caption
New research tackles the central question about "buy now, pay later": Does it encourage people to overspend? Peter Dazeley/Getty Images hide caption
In a year marked by inflation, 'buy now, pay later' is the hottest holiday trend
Kwame Alexander's latest crowdsourced poem explores the world through the eyes of Morning Edition listeners' pets. Sam Yeh/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
What would Fido say about you? This community poem takes pets' point of view
A PennDOT plow truck clears roads in northeastern Pennsylvania following snowfall of up to two feet on March 14, 2017, in Scranton. Around the country, people are participating in contests to give local snowplows clever names. Brett Carlsen/Getty Images hide caption
Fresh styles in recent Pokémon games: Unite, Arceus, Sword, and GO. The Pokémon Company hide caption
People help each other through the rubble after a tornado tore through the area in Killona, La., about 30 miles west of New Orleans in St. James Parish, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022. Gerald Herbert/AP hide caption
For many people, friendships and community bonds are stronger than they are with blood relatives. Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images hide caption
A visual feast: 6 favorite coffee table and gift books of 2022
Usher performs a Tiny Desk concert during our 2022 Black Music Month takeover. Bob Boilen/NPR hide caption