People rally Friday in Times Square in New York City to protest the fatal police assault of Tyre Nichols earlier this month in Memphis, Tenn. Yuki Iwamura /AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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Palestinians clash with Israeli forces following an army raid in the West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday. Majdi Mohammed/AP hide caption
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., talks to the infant child of Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Calif., inside the House chamber during votes for the next speaker of the House on the first day of the 118th Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 3. Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters hide caption
Brianne Chapman protests outside the federal courthouse in Washington, D.C., on Friday, during the sentencing hearing for Julian Khater and George Tanios. Khater pleaded guilty to assaulting Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick with pepper spray on Jan. 6, 2021. Jose Luis Magana/AP hide caption
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Police block the street to a house where three people were killed and four others wounded in a shooting at a short-term rental home in an upscale Los Angeles neighborhood on Saturday. Richard Vogel/AP hide caption
A black bear takes a "selfie" on Nov. 24, 2022, in Boulder, Colo. The image was captured on a motion-sensing camera, which was installed so that officials could track, learn about and protect wildlife. City of Boulder hide caption
Two young German-Jewish refugees at the porthole of the liner St. Louis finally arrive at Antwerp, after being refused entry to Cuba and Miami prior to the start of World War II. Gerry Cranham/Getty Images hide caption
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Police tape is seen in front of the home of U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on October 28, 2022 in San Francisco, California. Paul Pelosi, the husband of U.S. Speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi, was violently attacked in their home by an intruder. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images hide caption
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More than 30 years ago, Johnnie Haire, grounds supervisor at Sunset Gardens of Memory cemetery in Millstadt, Illinois, set up a birdbath and purchased angel figurines for a special garden for deceased children called "Baby Land." He carefully painted each angel a hue of brown. He says he wanted the angels to be Black, like many of the children laid to rest here. Cara Anthony/KHN hide caption
U.S. second gentleman, Doug Emhoff, lays wreaths honoring Holocaust victims at the former Auschwitz site on Friday in Oswiecim, Poland. Omar Marques/Getty Images hide caption
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A group pauses in 2017, with some in prayer, at a makeshift memorial on a New York City bike path that that honors victims of an attack who were stuck and killed by a rental truck driven by Sayfullo Saipov. The Islamic extremist was convicted of federal crimes on Thursday and could face the death penalty. Craig Ruttle/AP hide caption
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Prairie voles do not need oxytocin to form pair bonds, a new study finds. Nastacia Goodwin hide caption
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Demonstrators burn flares and smoke bombs outside the Ukrainian parliament in Kyiv on June 5, 2020, during a demonstration calling for the interior minister's resignation over corruption suspicion. Sergei Supinksy/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Jeff Zients removes his mask in this file photo from April 13, 2021. President Biden has decided to choose his former COVID-19 response coordinator as his new chief of staff, replacing Ron Klain. Patrick Semansky/AP hide caption
Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep interviews Hakeem Jeffries at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 25, 2023. Catie Dull/NPR hide caption
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said the state rejected the African American studies course because education "is about the pursuit of truth, not the imposition of ideology or the advancement of a political agenda." Lynne Sladky/AP hide caption
Experts say migration could offset falling birth rates — if politics don't get in the way. Didier Pallages/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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