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A person (bottom) is detained after throwing an apparent "smoke bomb" in Wakayama on April 15, 2023, where Japan's prime minister was due to give a speech. STR/JIJI Press/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Montana lawmakers on Friday passed a bill to ban TikTok over the app's suspected connections to the Chinese government. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption
The abortion drug mifepristone. Phil Walter/Getty Images hide caption
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A sketch depicts Madison County prosecutor Rob Wood (from left), Lori Vallow Daybell and defense attorney Jim Archibald during opening statements of Vallow Daybell's murder trial in Boise, Idaho, on Monday. Lisa C. Cheney/AP hide caption
Bill Hader as Barry in the fourth and final season of HBO's Barry. Merrick Morton/HBO hide caption
A person walks past the Fox News Headquarters at the News Corporation building in New York City last month. Dominion Voting Systems is suing Fox News and parent company Fox Corp. over election fraud claims that Fox aired in 2020 and 2021. Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Attorney General Merrick Garland announces the Justice Department charged several leaders of the Sinaloa cartel, a transnational drug trafficking organization based in Sinaloa, Mexico, and several of its facilitators across the world. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption
The charging station at Pearson International Airport, one of the busiest transportation hubs in Canada. Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty Images hide caption
Need to charge your phone? Think twice — 'juice jackers' might come for you
Security guards stand outside the entrance to the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston, Massachusetts on Friday. Jack Teixeira, 21, an employee of the U.S. Air Force National Guard, appeared at the federal court on Friday, Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
What we know about Jack Teixeira, the suspected leaker of Pentagon documents
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New York Mayor Eric Adams, left, introduces Kathleen Corradi, center, as the first-ever citywide director of rodent mitigation, also known as the "rat czar." Bobby Caina Calvan/AP hide caption
New York City appointed a rat czar. Her job will be a tall ask
This video still image provided by The Office of Arnold Schwarzenegger, shows former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, repairing what he called a pot hole on a street in his Los Angeles neighborhood on Tuesday, April 11, 2023. The Office of Arnold Schwarzenegger via AP hide caption
A red flag fire warning sign as seen in October 2013 in Pasadena, Calif. Nick Ut/AP hide caption
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees workers prepare to distribute non-food items to women at UNHCR office in Kandahar on March 8, 2022. The Taliban has demanded that Afghan women no longer work for the UN or NGOs. Javed Tanveer/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Boulders decorate the Ponderosa pine forests of the Little Pend Oreille National Wildlife Refuge. Brian Mann/NPR hide caption
Lt. Craig Stotts at the Twin Falls Police Department on April 6, 2023. Sarah Mosquera/NPR hide caption
Police work outside of a home in Albuquerque, N.M., on Feb. 23. Critics say problems with training are attributed to higher levels of police killings in New Mexico. Susan Montoya Bryan/AP hide caption
Ajay Banga, who the Biden administration has chosen to lead the World Bank, speaks in London in March. Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Separating climate change and inequality won't work, says Biden's World Bank nominee
When Pierce Forde was hit by a car while riding his motorcycle in the 1990s, a stranger stayed by his side. Forde says he wouldn't be alive without that man's help. Pierce Forde hide caption
Iranian visual artist Shirin Neshat on how exile is a driving force in her work
Long COVID — lingering symptoms that can follow a COVID diagnosis — plagues millions of Americans. It may be less likely after a second bout of COVID than after a first. For those living with it, it can be debilitating. Judy Schafer, 58, met with a group of other women with long COVID via Zoom, at her home in Seattle, Wash., in January. Jovelle Tamayo/The Washington Post via Getty Images hide caption
A program called MomConnect fields questions via mobile phone about pregnancy and babies. It started in South Africa and now is offered in other countries in sub-Saharan Africa and in Bangladesh, Indonesia and Timor-Leste as well. MomConnect hide caption
A patient prepares to take mifepristone during a visit to an abortion provider in Kansas City, Kan., in October. A federal judge's preliminary injunction invalidating the FDA's approval of the common abortion medication could have far-reaching effects if it's allowed to stand. Charlie Riedel/AP hide caption
Gianandrea Noseda talks with Marissa Regni about the loaned instruments. Keren Carrión/NPR hide caption
A music director goes public with a secret stash of private instruments
A group activists gathered outside the Tallahassee City Hall building to protest SB 300, which would place a ban on abortions after six weeks, Monday, April 3, 2023, in Tallahassee, Fla. Alicia Devine/AP hide caption
The villainous Elesh Norn in all her porcelain splendor, as depicted by artist Magali Velleneuve. Magali Villeneuve/Wizards of the Coast hide caption
Michelle Williams is a sculptor who makes clay figures of women in Showing Up. A24 hide caption
In this image taken from video, former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin addresses the court at the Hennepin County Courthouse on June 25, 2021, in Minneapolis. The city of Minneapolis agreed Thursday, April 13, 2023, to pay nearly $9 million to settle lawsuits filed by two people who said Chauvin pressed his knee into their necks years before he used the same move to kill George Floyd. AP hide caption
Microscope images of urinary tract cells from mice that were not given a UTI (naïve) and those that were susceptible to recurrent UTIs (sensitized). Cells are outlined in green and the DNA in each cell glows blue. The cells susceptible to recurrent UTIs are smaller. Seongmi Russel hide caption
Rappers Danny Brown (left) and JPEGMAFIA embrace their abrasive sides on Scaring the Hoes, a joyously chaotic collaboration glued together by JPEG's collage-like production. Carlo Cavaluzzi/Courtesy of the artist hide caption