President Obama announced on Tuesday in Laos that the U.S. will provide additional assistance to help remove unexploded bombs dropped by the U.S. during the Vietnam War. "Given our history here, I believe the United States has a moral obligation to help Laos heal," Obama said. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

The sign on the campus of ITT Technical Institute in West Covina, Calif. Susan Goldman/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption

An employee moves cement blocks at the Cement Products Manufacturing Co. facility in Redmond, Ore. Millions of men in their prime working years have dropped out of the labor force since the 1960s. Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption

Yuan Shanshan holds her 5-month-old baby on the outskirts of Beijing. Her husband, human rights lawyer Xie Yanyi, was arrested last year on charges of inciting subversion, and she's waiting until he's released to name the child. Xie is expected to stand trial soon. He's among a large number of Chinese human rights lawyers who have been prosecuted in the past year. Anthony Kuhn / NPR hide caption

Celebrated street artist Keith Haring painted this mural in the stairwell of a former convent in the 1980s. Now, the church that owns the Manhattan building — which offered low-cost housing — says it's suffering financial difficulties and has asked its tenants to leave. But two tenants are fighting eviction and raising concerns about the future of the mural. Joel Rose/NPR hide caption

President Obama announced Merrick Garland as his nominee to the Supreme Court on March 16 at the White House. Mark Wilson/Getty Images hide caption

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks prior to Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump arriving onstage for a rally in Jacksonville, Fla., last month. Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images hide caption

Islamic State fighters march in Raqqa, Syria, in an undated file photo released in 2014. The U.S. has been bombing ISIS in Syria and Iraq for the past two years. A U.S. Army captain has sued President Obama, arguing the U.S. war against the extremist group is not legal because the U.S. Congress has not authorized it. Uncredited/AP hide caption

An artist imagines what the surface of the planet Proxima b, orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, might look like. M. Kornmesser/ESO/NASA hide caption

Jonathan Safran Foer's new novel chronicles the dissolution of a marriage against a backdrop of global crisis. Jeff Mermelstein hide caption