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Thursday

Billie Lourd (from right), daughter of the late actress Carrie Fisher, kneels next to her mother's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame as Star Wars characters R2-D2, C-3PO and a stormtrooper watch Thursday in Los Angeles. Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP hide caption

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Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver is facing increasing pressure to leave the NBA franchise following a league investigation that found many instances of inappropriate workplace behavior. Ethan Miller/Getty Images hide caption

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Wednesday

A child sips water from a bottle under a scorching sun on Tuesday in Los Angeles. Forecasters say temperatures could reach as high as 112 degrees in the densely populated Los Angeles suburbs in the next week as a heat dome settles in over parts of California, Nevada and Arizona. Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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A truck hauling a load of tomatoes crashed Monday after a collision near Vacaville, Calif., and its load spilled across several lanes of Highway 80 in Northern California. Crews had cleaned the eastbound lanes but one westbound lane remained closed six hours after the crash, the CHP said. California Highway Patrol via AP hide caption

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Gov. Gretchen Whitmer speaks to abortion-rights protesters Friday at a rally outside the state capitol in Lansing, Mich., following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Paul Sancya/AP hide caption

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Michigan shapes up as one of the next abortion battlefronts

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Wednesday

Columbine Principal Frank DeAngelis listens to his students, survivors of the shooting, in April 2019 as he attends "Columbine 20 Years Later: A Faith-based Remembrance Service" at Waterstone Community Church in Littleton, Colo. A dozen students and one teacher were massacred by two heavily armed students. Joe Amon/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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A small, growing group of survivors advises school leaders after mass shootings

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A flight scheduled to take asylum-seekers, regardless of their nationality, to Rwanda awaits its passengers Tuesday at Boscombe Down Air Base, 80 miles east of London. The flight was halted by a court injunction. Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images hide caption

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Sending asylum-seekers from Britain to Rwanda is human trafficking, an advocate says

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Friday

People sit Feb. 14 in front of a photo display of the 17 people killed four years earlier during a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. Joe Raedle/Getty Images hide caption

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A teacher who was at the Parkland shooting offers advice for the Uvalde survivors

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Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green, left, and Boston Celtics forward Grant Williams reach for the ball March 16 during a regular season game. The two teams will face off in the NBA Finals starting Thursday night. Jeff Chiu/AP hide caption

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People mourn Tuesday at a makeshift memorial for the victims of the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas. The Texas town of Uvalde began on Tuesday laying to rest the 19 young children killed in an elementary school shooting that left the small, tight-knit community united in grief and anger. Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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As senators seek common ground on guns, 'red flag' laws become a focus

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Community members gather May 21 to support each other near the Tops market that was targeted in a racist mass shooting in Buffalo, N.Y. Mustafa Hussain/Getty Images hide caption

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Monday

This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virus particles, left, and spherical immature particles, right. Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner/CDC via AP hide caption

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Monkeypox likely isn't much of a threat to the public, a White House official says

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Tuesday

Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Scott Bray, left, and Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security Ronald Moultrie speak Tuesday during a House Intelligence, Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation Subcommittee hearing on "Unidentified Aerial Phenomena" on Capitol Hill in Washington. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban gives his an international press conference April 6, days after his FIDESZ party won the parliamentary election, in the Karmelita monastery housing the prime minister's office in Budapest. Attila Kisbenedek/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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One man stands between Europe and a ban on Russian oil: Hungary's Viktor Orban

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Friday

A woman skates in Helsinki, on a sunny but frosty Boxing Day on Dec. 26, with temperatures around 9 degrees Fahrenheit. Heikki Saukkomaa/Lehtikuva/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Voters cast their ballots Election Day in 2020 in East Los Angeles. Smartmatic says it's the only county they were operating in for the presidential election, but Fox News mentioned the company 137 times in a month afterward as President Trump and his allies pressed baseless claims of a rigged election. Damian Dovarganes/AP hide caption

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A graduation themed mural is seen in July 2021 on the Howard University campus in Washington. Jacquelyn Martin/AP hide caption

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Education Department will provide grants for HBCUs targeted by bomb threats

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Friday

Dr. Nikhila Juvvadi gives Dr. Marina Del Rios from the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System one of the first COVID-19 vaccination administered in Chicago on Dec. 15 at Loretto Hospital on the city's West Side. Jose M. Osorio/Chicago Tribune via AP hide caption

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Some Health Care Workers Are Hesitant About Getting COVID-19 Vaccines

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Saturday

Medical staffs sterilize the main building of Jinyintan Hospital on Jan. 22 in Wuhan, China. A 60-year-old who died at the hospital on Thursday is the first American known to have died after being infected by the coronavirus. Getty Images hide caption

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a press conference Wednesday in Jerusalem regarding his intention to file a request to the Knesset for immunity from prosecution. Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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"We can't stop here, this is bat country!" Max Muncy of the Los Angeles Dodgers hits an 18th inning walk-off home run early Saturday on a pitch from Nathan Eovaldi of the Boston Red Sox to win Game Three of the 2018 World Series at Dodger Stadium. Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images hide caption

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Boston Red Sox starting pitcher David Price winds up to throw Wednesday night during Game 2 of the World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Fenway Park in Boston. David J. Phillip/AP hide caption

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