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A CDC advisory panel has recommended a third Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine dose for those who are 65 or older or run a high risk of severe disease. Matt Rourke/AP hide caption
Anderson and Karen Lawson at their StoryCorps recording in Atlanta in 2015. Diana Guyton hide caption
Their Dad Transformed Video Games In The 1970s — And Passed On His Pioneering Spirit
This year's Broadway-adapted movie In the Heights, starring actor Anthony Ramos — pictured alongside actress Jasmine Cephas Jones — is a rare exception to Hollywood's pattern of excluding Latino narratives. John Locher/AP hide caption
Cpl. Ajmal Achekzai, 26, who served as a translator for the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, talks with two Afghan locals in December 2001 at the perimeter of a patrol base in southern Afghanistan. Sgt. Joseph R. Chenelly/USMC/Getty Images hide caption
An Afghan Marine Fought To Make His Homeland Safer. Now He Feels Like He Failed
Nathan Chapman in Haiti, 1995. The Chapman family hide caption
A Family Remembers The 1st U.S. Soldier Killed In The War In Afghanistan
Smoke rises from explosion outside the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday. Reports of explosions outside the airport were confirmed the following morning. Wali Sabawoon/AP hide caption
Live Updates: ISIS-K Behind Kabul Attack That Killed Dozens. Biden Vows Revenge
Dr. Charles Drew, pictured in a lab at Howard University, was known as the father of blood banking for pioneering the way we store and transport blood today. Dr. Charlene Jarvis hide caption
Remembering The Father Of Blood Banking, A Black Doctor Who Took A Stand
George Gonzalez, an officer with the Pentagon Force Protection Agency, died in the line of duty on Tuesday following a violent attack, officials said. Pentagon Force Protection Agency hide caption
U.S. sprinter Lynna Irby wipes away a tear Friday after the 4x400-meter mixed relay at the Tokyo Olympics. Petr David Josek/AP hide caption
Robert "Bob" Moses led Black voter registration drives in the South during the 1964 Freedom Summer effort and later, founded a math training program to educate students in underfunded public schools. Rogelio V. Solis/AP hide caption
In the podcast Finding D.W., host and former D.W. voice actor Jason Szwimer interviews other male actors who played Arthur's kid sister. Jason Szwimer hide caption
A New Podcast Explores Why 'Arthur' The Aardvark's Sister D.W. Was Voiced By Boys
Spectators leave the stadium in the sixth inning of a baseball game between the Washington Nationals and the San Diego Padres on Saturday night in D.C. after a shooting occured outside the park. Nick Wass/AP hide caption
Left: In April 2020 Debbie Kosta was on a ventilator for almost a month. Right: "I'm pushing through this COVID long-hauler disease by biking each day," says Kosta. "Going from learning how to walk again to learning how to bike again took me a few months. Now I bike 24 miles up and down the Hudson." Debbie Kosta; Agni Zotis hide caption
Anti-abortion-rights protesters come out in May to the Texas Capitol in Austin in response to a bill that Gov. Greg Abbott signed outlawing abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected. Sergio Flores/Getty Images hide caption
The CDC and the FDA say that fully vaccinated Americans do not currently need a booster dose of a coronavirus vaccine. Christophe Ena/AP hide caption