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Connie Walton (left); Carmelia "Dinks" Hinkson; and Denille Andrus, with her son Joe Tanner, are among the mothers who are honored and remembered on Mother's Day. Julie Walton-Davidson, Lora Hinkson and via Joe Tanner hide caption

From left, U.S. silver medalist Regan Smith, Australian gold medalist Kaylee McKeown and U.S. bronze medalist Katharine Berkoff pose with their medals following the women's 100-meter backstroke swimming event during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on Tuesday. Berkoff's bronze was not only the 3,000th medal for Team USA, but also the 600th Olympic medal earned by a USA swimming athlete. Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

Sha'carri Richardson of Team USA celebrates after finishing second in the Women's 100m Final on day eight of the Paris Olympics at Stade de France on Saturday. Mustafa Yalcin/Anadolu via Getty Images hide caption

Cardboard beds at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games have made headlines. VCG/via Getty Images hide caption

Months after Shohei Ohtani signed a huge deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers in the offseason, the team fired his interpreter over gambling and theft allegations. Harry How/Getty Images hide caption

The ERS-2 was launched in 1995 and retired in 2011. It fell back to Earth this week. ESA hide caption

In response to several high-profile deaths of African Americans in recent months, some black people are saying that enough is enough. Clockwise from top left: Michael Martin, Tunisian Burks, Sam Tyler, Alexander Pittman, the Rev. Carol Thomas Cissel, Brandon Winston, Donna Ghanney and Mark Turner. NPR hide caption

This frame grab from police bodycam video provided by the Chicago Police Department shows authorities trying to apprehend a suspect (center), who appeared to be armed, Saturday in Chicago. The suspect was fatally shot by police during the confrontation. Chicago Police Department via AP hide caption

NPR editor Maquita Peters' relationship with Lee Brackin evolved from hostile father-daughter interactions to a father who doted on his first-born. Courtesy of Maquita Peters hide caption

Bishop Michael Bruce Curry delivering the sermon during the wedding ceremony of Britain's Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and US actress Meghan Markle in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. OWEN HUMPHREYS/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

Santa Fe High School sophomore Averi Gary (center) is comforted during a vigil after the deadly mass shooting in Texas on Friday. David J. Phillip/AP hide caption

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle became the Duke and Duchess of Sussex upon their wedding at St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle on Saturday. WPA Pool/Getty Images hide caption

Vice President Pence and his wife, Karen, stand for the national anthem before Sunday's game between the Indianapolis Colts and the San Francisco 49ers in Indianapolis. Michael Conroy/AP hide caption

Brownies in a pan, ready to be served. alohadave/Getty Images/iStockphoto hide caption

Fox News host Eric Bolling has been suspended amid reports that he sent at least three female colleagues a lewd text message. Bolling's lawyer calls the accusations untrue and says he and his client are cooperating with the investigation. Richard Drew/AP hide caption

Director George A. Romero attends the Night of the Living Dead World Premiere of Restored Print during the To Save and Project: The 14th MOMA International Festival of Film Preservation at MOMA on November 5, 2016 in New York City. Lars Niki/Getty Images for Museum of Moder hide caption

An area in Tonto National Forest in Arizona. Charmaine Noronha/AP hide caption

U.S. Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte has been cleared by a Brazilian court of criminal charges for filing a false robbery during the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Matt Hazlett/Getty Images hide caption

Pope Francis talks with Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Mueller in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014. Andrew Medichini/AP hide caption

A TV crew films the damage to the USS Fitzgerald at its port in Yokosuka, Japan, on Sunday. "A number" of missing American sailors have been found dead in flooded areas of the destroyer, the U.S. Navy says. Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

Thousands of protesters gather in Portland, Ore., Sunday, for competing rallies following last month's fatal stabbing of two men on a light-rail train by a man police say was shouting anti-Muslim slurs. Kristena Hansen/AP hide caption