As the nation begins its annual celebration of Latino history, culture and other achievements, it's not too late to ask why we lump together roughly 62 million people with complex identities under a single umbrella. Peter Pencil/Getty Images hide caption
The 2020 Castle Fire burned the Alder Creek sequoia grove with extreme intensity, killing many of the 1,000-year-old trees there. Without any green foliage, the trees can't survive or resprout. Lauren Sommer/NPR hide caption
Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, R-Ohio, is one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump for his role in inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol. Susan Walsh/AP hide caption
Miniature gardens are planted on the rooftops of unused taxis parked in Bangkok, Thailand, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021. Taxi fleets in Thailand are giving new meaning to the term "rooftop garden." Sakchai Lalit/AP hide caption
Anderson and Karen Lawson at their StoryCorps recording in Atlanta in 2015. Diana Guyton hide caption
Beard (Brendan Hunt) spends a long night out after the Manchester City loss. Apple TV+ hide caption
City Council member Alondra Cano speaks in June 2020 about defunding the Minneapolis Police Department. Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via AP hide caption
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President Ronald Reagan shows his boot following the signing of his tax bill at his California vacation home near Santa Barbara, Calif., on Aug. 13, 1981. AP hide caption
This 2018 portrait released by the U.S. Department of Justice shows Connecticut's U.S. Attorney John Durham. AP hide caption
Julianne Hough, Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Usher Raymond IV will host the show. Kevin Winter/Getty Images ; Jeff Spicer/Getty Images ; Paras Griffin/Getty Images hide caption
Nicki Minaj attends the Oscar de la Renta show during Fashion Week in New York in 2018. The White House is offering to connect Minaj with one of the Biden administration's doctors to address her questions about the COVID-19 vaccine. Charles Sykes/Charles Sykes/Invision/AP hide caption
This photo provided by Melissa Breyer shows some of the dead birds collected in the vicinity of New York's World Trade Center on Tuesday. Melissa Breyer/AP hide caption
Lilah, Soshie, and Georgie outside of their bunk. Rachel Wisniewski hide caption
A little girl and her baby brother were taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol agents this week, after they were discovered abandoned along the U.S.-Mexico border. U.S. Border Patrol hide caption
This photo provided by Hampton County Detention Center shows Alex Murdaugh. Murdaugh surrendered on Thursday to face insurance fraud and other charges after state police said he arranged to have himself shot in the head so that his son would get a $10 million life insurance payout. The shooter only grazed him. Hampton County Detention Center via AP hide caption
Olivia Rodrigo performs "good 4 u" during the MTV Video Music Awards on Sept. 12, 2021. John Shearer/MTV VMAs 2021/Getty Images for MTV/ViacomCBS hide caption
Sir Walter Raleigh, an English adventurer, writer and explorer of the Americas, founded a colony in North Carolina in 1587 that later disappeared. Archaeologists hope to uncover new clues about what happened. Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption
Philip Morris International is buying Vectura, a large asthma inhaler maker, in a move that health groups have urged Vectura shareholders to reject on both ethical and practical grounds. Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images hide caption
Charlamagne tha God leads a discussion last year at the Capitol Visitor Center in Washington, D.C. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Imag hide caption
Virginia Oliver, age 101, measuring and banding lobsters on her son Max Oliver's boat, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021, off Rockland, Maine. The state's oldest lobster harvester has been doing it since before WWII. Robert F. Bukaty/AP hide caption
Actress Mayim Bialik and previous winner Ken Jennings will co-host the program through the end of 2021. Amy Sussman/Getty Images ; Frazer Harrison/Getty Images hide caption
The chile en nogada — a stuffed poblano pepper covered in a walnut sauce — has become a classic Mexican dish. The version plated here comes from Ricardo Muñoz Zurita's Azul Condesa restaurant in Mexico City. Omar Torres/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Reba McEntire, shown here at the CMA Awards in 2019, was rescued from a building after a staircase collapsed. Mark J. Terrill/AP hide caption
Charlie Callagan's bone marrow transplant for multiple myeloma was postponed at the last minute because Oregon hospitals are overwhelmed with treating COVID-19 patients. Erik Neumann / Jefferson Public Radio hide caption
The logo of French headquarters of American multinational technology company Microsoft, is pictured outside in 2018 in Issy-Les-Moulineaux, a Paris suburb. Gerard Julien /AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet speaks at a climate event in Madrid in 2019. A recent report of hers warns of the threats that AI can pose to human rights. Ricardo Rubio/Europa Press Via Getty Images hide caption
Medical staff members tend to COVID-19 patients at the AP-HP Georges Pompidou European Hospital in Paris in April. Anne-Christine Poujouat/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Security fencing was reinstalled around the U.S. Capitol Wednesday night ahead of a planned Sept. 18 rally by far-right supporters of former President Donald Trump. They are demanding the release of rioters arrested after the Jan. 6 attack. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption
This undated photo provided by the North Port, Fla., Police Department shows Gabrielle "Gabby" Petito. Courtesy of North Port Police Department /AP hide caption
FILE - In this Aug. 15, 2021 file photo, Taliban fighters take control of Afghan presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country. Zabi Karimi/AP hide caption
Two views of the Eagle Nebula's "Pillars of Creation," both captured by Hubble. The left shows the pillars in visible light; the right image was taken in infrared light. NASA, ESA/Hubble and the Hubble Heritage Team hide caption
Purdue Pharma filed for bankruptcy with a more than $10 billion plan to settle claims that it fueled the U.S. opioid epidemic by illegally pushing sales of its addictive OxyContin painkiller. The company's headquarters in Stamford, Conn., is shown here in 2019. Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg/Getty Images hide caption
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., continues to make President Biden's handling of the economy the central theme in the runup to the 2022 midterms. McCarthy is poised to run for speaker if the GOP takes control of the House. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption
Before classes begin for the day, elementary music teacher Penelope Quesada gathers her most commonly used cleaning supplies and places them around the classroom in places of convenience. Natosha Via for NPR hide caption
Former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin, right, addresses Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill at the Hennepin County Courthouse in Minneapolis in April. Court TV/AP hide caption
The move to share U.S. nuclear-powered submarine technology with Australia comes as President Biden has worked to focus his foreign policy on the threat that China poses. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
View from above (dorsal view) of the new soldier fly named after RuPaul, Opaluma rupaul. CSIRO Australia hide caption
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