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The Mars Perseverance Rover has a pet rock

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Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., introduces Vice President Harris at Delta Center Stage in Greenville, Miss., on April 1. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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Jan. 6 committee Chair Bennie Thompson says the U.S. came close to losing democracy

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After long eschewing marriage, Pyotr Kolyadin and Tatyana Neustroyeva wed in April in St. Petersburg, Russia. It's "sort of like an anchor that you throw forward and maybe somehow it will pull you out," Pyotr says. Tatyana Neustroyeva hide caption

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These Russian couples didn't plan to get married. The Ukraine war changed their minds

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