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Presidents' speeches announcing the death of an enemy can reveal a lot, experts say
President Barack Obama delivers a televised statement that Osama bin Laden was killed in 2011. President Donald Trump makes a statement announcing the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in 2019. President Biden announces on Monday that a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. Brendan Smialowski/Pool; Alex Wong; Jim Watson/Pool/Getty Images hide caption
An operating room technician performs an ultrasound on a patient in Shreveport, La., on July 6, 2022. Ted Jackson/AP hide caption
A crowd of people attends the Music Midtown festival in Atlanta's Piedmont Park on Sept. 16, 2018. Paul R. Giunta/Invision/AP hide caption
The Q nightclub in New York City received rave reviews after it opened and was often very busy. After just over a year open, the club is now the subject of controversy following a lawsuit. The Q NYC Facebook hide caption
Sue Bell holds one of more than a dozen beagles that arrived at the headquarters of animal rescue group Homeward Trails in Fairfax Station, Va., on Thursday, while posing for a portrait. The dogs were a small portion of the roughly 4,000 beagles rescued from a research facility where the conditions were found to be inhumane. Amanda Andrade-Rhoades for NPR hide caption
On Aug. 1, the U.S. Senate confirmed Lt. Gen. Michael E. Langley's nomination, which will make him the first Black four-star general in the U.S. Marine Corps' 246-year history. U.S. Marine Corps hide caption
National Safety Shelters sells safety pods that can fit a classroom of students inside to protect them from active shooters or extreme weather. Francois Picard/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
These canines are some of the nearly 500 beagles that Homeward Trails Animal Rescue collected earlier this year from an Envigo research facility in Virginia. Now Homeward Trails is taking in additional beagles from Envigo, which bred the dogs for pharmaceutical research, after a federal judge ordered thousands of remaining dogs to be released. Homeward Trails Animal Rescue hide caption
LGBTQ flags fly in London's Hyde Park on July 24, 2021. Alberto Pezzali/AP hide caption
The James Webb Space Telescope (shown here being tested on earth) is expected to reveal some of the most spectacular views of the Universe ever seen. Chris Gunn/Northrop Grumman, NASA hide caption
NASA's James Webb telescope reveals the universe as we've never seen it before
Clinic escorts use party horns and whistles to counter the presence of anti-abortion activist Gabriel Olivier, right, outside the Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic in Jackson, Miss., on July 6, 2022. Rogelio V. Solis/AP hide caption
People visit a memorial at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on June 2, 2022, to pay their respects to the victims killed in a school shooting. Jae C. Hong/AP hide caption