Edita Maldonado hosts a weekly radio program that tries to reunite migrants who disappeared on the dangerous trek north with their loved ones back in Progreso, Honduras. Tomas Ayuso for NPR hide caption
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Entire crops in the Sula Valley, on Honduras' Atlantic lowlands, were wiped out in the flooding. Along the roadways that encircle San Pedro Sula, utility poles and billboards remain partially or totally destroyed by the hurricanes' high winds. Tomas Ayuso for NPR hide caption
Why People Are Fleeing Honduras For The U.S.: 'All That's Left Here Is Misery'
Blanca Marisa Balegas makes tortillas at the Ramos family's new wood-fired stove after the floods disintegrated the old one. Ten family members sleep in the two-room home now. Hurricanes Eta and Iota displaced the family for over five months. Tomas Ayuso for NPR hide caption
Why People Are Fleeing Honduras For The U.S.: 'All That's Left Here Is Misery'
Rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip toward Israel on Monday. Khalil Hamra/AP hide caption
Fuel tanks are seen at a Colonial Pipeline Co. delivery point Monday in Baltimore. The company's pipeline was hit with a major ransomware attack last week. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
China will set up a "line of separation" at Mount Everest's summit, as Nepal struggles to control a COVID-19 outbreak. This photo from last week shows mountaineers using headlights near the Khumbu icefall of Mount Everest, as seen from Nepal's base camp. Prakash Mathema/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Barry Jenkins served as showrunner, executive producer, writer and director to the 10-part Amazon series, The Underground Railroad. Atsushi Nishijima/Amazon Studios hide caption
The Italian Culture Ministry said the Guattari Cave in San Felice Circeo was "one of the most significant places in the world for the history of Neanderthals." Emanuele Antonio Minerva/Italian Culture Ministry via AP hide caption
Ash the cat selects the Kanizsa square stimulus — in other words, the illusion of a square — in a new study in which pet owners provided the data. Tara McCready hide caption
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President Biden delivers remarks on the economy in the East Room of the White House on Monday, pushing back on critics who say the American Rescue Plan is making the economy worse. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption
A man cries over the body of a victim of deadly bombings on Saturday near a school, at a cemetery west of Kabul on Sunday. More than 50 were killed in the attack, many of them pupils between 11 and 15 years old. More than 100 were wounded. Mariam Zuhaib/AP hide caption
Afghanistan School Attack: Death Toll Rises, As Do Fears Over Sending Girls To School
Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., left, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., raise their arms after addressing attendees of a rally, Friday, May 7, 2021, in The Villages, Fla. Phelan M. Ebenhack/AP hide caption
A Look At The GOP From Inside A Matt Gaetz-Marjorie Taylor Greene Rally
From left, trumpet player Freddie Hubbard, saxophonist Johnny Griffin, Curtis Fuller and bassist Reggie Workman, on stage at Town Hall in New York on Feb. 22, 1985. Anthony Barboza/Getty Images hide caption
The Biden administration says the government will protect gay and transgender people against sex discrimination in health care. In this 2017 photo, Equality March for Unity and Pride participants march past the White House in Washington. Carolyn Kaster/AP hide caption
A new report by GLAAD highlights the high rate of harassment and hate facing LGBTQ users on social media. In this photo, demonstrators rally in favor of LGBTQ rights outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., in 2019. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Carlene Knight, 54, is one of the first patients in a landmark study designed to try to restore vision in those who have a rare genetic disease that causes blindness. Josh Andersen/OHSU hide caption
Blind Patients Hope Landmark Gene-Editing Experiment Will Restore Their Vision
The Kindred Spirits sculpture in Midleton, County Cork, Ireland, pays tribute to a gift from the Choctaw nation to help during the 19th century potato famine. Ireland paid it back with donations to the Navajo and Hopi nations to help them during the pandemic. Gavin Sheridan hide caption
Alex Gibney's new documentary on HBO is called The Crime of the Century. It details the role of the medical system in creating the opioid crisis. HBO hide caption
Opioid Crisis: Filmmaker Details The Medical System's 'Crime Of The Century'
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Stock trader Peter Tuchman works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on March 9, 2020. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption
I Came Close To Dying: Wall Street's Most Photographed Man Is Ready For Normalcy
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, far right, Baltimore County Executive John Olszewski and Maryland House Speaker Adrienne Jones stand next to a new historic marker on Saturday in Towson, Md., that memorializes Howard Cooper, a 15-year-old who was dragged from a jailhouse and hanged by a mob in 1885. Brian Witte/AP hide caption
Howard University has prompted an outcry from students and scholars over its decision to dissolve its classics department, the only such program at a historically Black college or university in the nation. Andrew Harnik/AP hide caption
The Rev. Megan Rohrer became the first openly transgender bishop to be elected in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on Saturday. Megan Rohrer hide caption
Album Leaf of Flowers and Insects, bequest of the Hofer Collection of the Arts of Asia, 1985.904.6 Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College/Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum hide caption
Lloyd Price appears backstage at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, in New York, on March 14, 2011. Price died Monday in New Rochelle, New York. AP hide caption
Robert Lee Johnson in his old neighborhood in Compton. Johnson remembers moving in one day in 1961. "I see moving vans, trucks and everything all down the street," he says. Johnson was 5 years old at the time, so he says he thought "it was moving day for everybody." And he noticed that all the other families moving in were were Black, too. Nevil Jackson for NPR hide caption
In U.S. Cities, The Health Effects Of Past Housing Discrimination Are Plain To See
A 'Forgotten History' Of How The U.S. Government Segregated America
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