University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill listens during a hearing of the House Committee on Education on Capitol Hill on Dec. 5. Mark Schiefelbein/AP hide caption
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Left: A Palestinian schoolgirl in Gaza City passes by the main entrance to Pasha's Palace in 2019 as the minaret of the Omari Mosque is seen in the background. Right: Palestinians spend a Ramadan fasting day in 2019 reading the Quran inside the Omari Mosque. Khalil Hamra/AP Images for NPR hide caption
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Abortion rights demonstrators attend a rally at the Texas state Capitol in Austin, Texas, May 14, 2022. Eric Gay/AP hide caption
Businesses in Hendersonville along East Main Street were damaged and downed power lines made it difficult for travel on Saturday. Paige Pfleger/WPLN News hide caption
Haze obscures the Dubai skyline including Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building. The United Arab Emirates is choking under "alarmingly high" air pollution levels fed by its fossil fuel industry, Human Rights Watch warned on December 4. The oil-rich country hosts the UN's COP28 climate talks in Dubai. Giuseppe Cacace/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A record number of fossil fuel representatives are at this year's COP28 climate talks
The OpenAI logo is displayed on a cellphone with an image on a computer monitor generated by ChatGPT's Dall-E text-to-image model in Boston on Dec. 8, 2023. Michael Dwyer/AP hide caption
Palestinians displaced by the Israeli ground offensive in the Gaza Strip arrive in the Mawasi area on Thursday. Fatima Shbair/AP hide caption
The U.S. has vetoed a Gaza cease-fire resolution in the U.N. Security Council
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French Ambassador to the United Nations Nicolas de Rivière (center) and other representatives raise their hands in favor of a resolution calling for a cease-fire in Gaza during a U.N. Security Council meeting in New York on Friday. The U.S. vetoed it. Charly Triballeau/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Treasures destroyed and masterpieces in vaults: War's toll for art in Israel and Gaza
Zone G in a quarantine center turned housing units. The complex is divided into nine zones, named after letters from A to L, a design that was meant to make quarantine management convenient. Inside each window of the building is a 190-square-foot studio, equipped with a bed, a sofa and a bathroom. Aowen Cao/NPR hide caption
A year after lifting COVID rules, China is turning quarantine centers into apartments
A young bison calf with its herd at Bull Hollow, Okla., on Sept. 27, 2022. American bison, or buffalo, have bounced back from their near extinction due to commercial hunting in the 1800s. Many tribes are participating in their restoration. Audrey Jackson/AP hide caption
Chuck E. Cheese, the frontman for the animatronic Munch's Make Believe Band at the Chuck E. Cheese location in Northridge, Calif. This animatronic band is the last remaining one in the United States as locations remodel in favor of screens and interactive dance floors. Maggie Shannon for NPR hide caption
Kids are losing the Chuck E. Cheese animatronics. They were for the parents, anyway
Picking a color palette is an important part of decorating for the holidays, says interior designer Elaine Griffin. So experiment with colors outside of the traditional red and green scheme. Photo Illustration by Becky Harlan/NPR hide caption
It's time for holiday decorations. How to create an iconic theme — and save money
Murder in Boston is a three-part docuseries about the 1989 murder of Carol Stuart by her husband Charles Stuart. But it wisely focuses not on the murder itself, but on the police investigation — both its origins and the deep scars it left. HBO hide caption
Dans la tour (In the Tower)/Self-Portrait of Leonor Fini with Constantin Jelenski, 1952, oil on canvas © Estate of Leonor Fini, Courtesy Galerie Minsky & Weinstein Gallery hide caption
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A student works on a lesson about Indigenous people and the pilgrims. She listens to the lesson in English but can read Spanish subtitles at Place Bridge Academy on Nov. 17, 2023. Jenny Brundin/CPR News hide caption
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Norman Lear has died. He was a writer, director and producer who revolutionized prime time television with such topical hits as All in the Family and Maude and propelled political and social turmoil into the once-insulated world of sitcoms. Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP hide caption
Norman Lear, who made funny sitcoms about serious topics, dies at 101
Ryan O'Neal arrives at the 8th Annual TV Land Awards at Sony Studios on in Culver City, Calif., in 2010. The actor died at age 82. Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images hide caption
University of Nevada, Las Vegas professors Naoko Takemaru (left), Cha-Jan "Jerry" Chang and Patricia Navarro-Velez were killed during a shooting on campus on Wednesday. Takemaru oversaw UNLV's Japanese Studies program while Chang and Navarro-Velez were both professors in the business school. University of Nevada, Las Vegas hide caption
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Ethan Crumbley stands with his attorneys Paulette Loftin (left) and Amy Hopp during his senencing hearing in Pontiac, Mich. Parents of students killed at Michigan's Oxford High School described the anguish of losing their children Friday as a judge considered whether Crumbley would serve a life sentence for the 2021 mass shooting. Carlos Osorio/AP hide caption
Opening night at La Scala theater, in Milan Italy, Thursday Dec. 7, 2023. The tradition of Italian opera singing is among the 55 cultural practices to be inscribed to UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage List this year. Luca Bruno/AP hide caption
Skiers participate in last year's "Santa Sunday" event at the Sunday River resort in Newry, Maine. Marina French/Sunday River hide caption
Unique ways Americans celebrate the holidays, from skiing Santas to Festivus feats
"I'm ecstatic. It's a blessing that they approved this therapy," said Victoria Gray, the first person in the U.S. to undergo CRISPR gene-editing for sickle cell, of the Food and Drug Administration's decision. Orlando Gili hide caption
A woman is facing charges after pouring what appears to be gasoline on the porch of the Queen Anne style house in Atlanta where Martin Luther King Jr. spent the first 12 years of his life. The home was not damaged. Historic American Buildings Survey/ Library of Congress hide caption
Former President Donald Trump departs for a break during a civil fraud trial in New York City on Thursday. Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A male Greater Honeyguide in Mozambique's Niassa Special Reserve. Claire Spottiswoode hide caption
Ndileka Mandela, the eldest of Nelson Mandela's grandchildren, during her Zoom interview with NPR. A climate activist, she had spoken at COP28 earlier in the week, the climate summit, and returned home to Johannesburg to mark the 10th anniversary of her grandfather's passing. Screenshot by NPR hide caption
Elon Musk, who owns X, formerly known as Twitter, is facing an advertiser backlash on the platform, which is reliant on advertising revenue. Michel Euler/AP hide caption
In Poor Things, Emma Stone stars as Bella Baxter, a woman created as part of a back-from-the-dead mad science experiment. Atsushi Nishijima/Searchlight Pictures hide caption
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A Brightline train during its inaugural trip between Miami and West Palm Beach, Fla., in 2018. This week, the White House announced $3 billion in funding for Brightline West, a proposed high-speed rail line connecting Las Vegas and Southern California. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption
Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., listens to fellow speakers before President Joe Biden speaks during an event at SUNY Westchester Community College, May 10, 2023, in Valhalla, N.Y. John Minchillo/AP hide caption
The Lesser-Known Candidate Forum featured 20 of the people who will be on the New Hampshire primary ballot, including (l to r) Donald Picard, Paperboy Love Prince, Richard Rist and Vermin Supreme. Tamara Keith/NPR hide caption
A postcard from the Lesser-Known Candidate Forum, a New Hampshire primary tradition
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A 2017 meeting of a rotating savings club formed in a village near Lake Victoria soon after every adult there was chosen to receive a monthly through GiveDirectly's experiment. The clubs have enabled recipients to convert their grants into lump sum payments: Each month the members put $10 into the communual pot — for a total of $100 — and a different person takes it home. Nichole Sobecki for NPR hide caption
It's one of the biggest experiments in fighting global poverty. Now the results are in
Russian President Vladimir Putin talks with awarded Russian servicemen at the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow on Friday. Valery Sharifulin/AP hide caption
Gelt are chocolate coins traditionally given out during Hanukkah. NuRoots, the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles' young adult initiative, has baskets of gelt to hand out at its events. Jason DeRose/NPR hide caption
Hanukkah celebrations inspire Jewish joy despite war and increasing antisemitism
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