Prompted by the image of a little boy in Aleppo whose face is caked with rubble and blood, NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the costs and effects of the war in Syria.
Former CIA agent Evan McMullin announces his presidential campaign as an independent candidate on Aug. 10 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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After its maiden voyage from China, the largest container ship to ever make port in North America, unloads its cargo in the Port of Los Angeles on Dec. 26, 2015. The major shipping companies in Europe and Asia began ordering the state-of-the-art, supersized ships back in 2011, when times were better.
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Polling station chairman helps a voter at a voting machine during the Republican presidential primary in February in West Columbia, S.C.
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