Palestinians search the destroyed annex of the Church of Saint Porphyrius, damaged in a strike on Gaza City on Oct. 20. Dawood Nemer/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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This December 2018 photo provided by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife shows the breeding male of the Chesnimnus Pack caught on camera during the winter survey on U.S. Forest Service land in northern Wallowa County, Oregon. (Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife via AP, File) AP hide caption
Wolves are returning to Colorado. But is it too crowded for them to thrive?
Rachel Maddow uncovers a WWII-era plot against the U.S. government
Sandra Day O'Connor being sworn in on Sept. 9, 1981. Justice O'Connor was the first female supreme court justice. She died at XX. Wally McNamee/Corbis hide caption
Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in 2008 at the Woodrow Wilson Center's inauguration of the Kissinger Institute on China and the U.S. Win McNamee/Getty Images hide caption
Former first lady Rosalynn Carter died Nov. 19 at 96 years old. Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images hide caption
Author Shahnaz Habib next to the cover of her new book, Airplane Mode. Author photo by Eva Garmendia hide caption
Travel is supposed to expand your horizons... but it's complicated
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A scene from Florencia en el Amazonas. Ken Howard/Met Opera hide caption
Finding a place at the Met, this opera sings in a language of its own
Arielle Jacobs and Jose Llana as Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos in the Broadway musical Here Lives Love. Billy Bustamante, Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman (2023) hide caption
A British Airways Concorde takes off from London's Heathrow Airport in 2001. David Parker/BWP Media/Getty Images hide caption
20 years ago, the supersonic passenger jet Concorde flew for the last time
Members of the Bengaluru Solidarity Group in Support of the Bhopal Struggle take part in a candlelight vigil to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Bhopal gas disaster in Bangalore on December 2, 2014. Manjunath Kiran/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The world's worst industrial disaster harmed people even before they were born
Secret Service agent Clint Hill rides on the back of the presidential limousine moments after President John F. Kennedy was shot on Nov. 22, 1963. Justin Newman/AP hide caption
60 years after JFK's assassination, the agent who tried to save him opens up
Nate Taylor (left) and Sylvia Fred (right), two of the co-founders of the Endazhi-Nitaawiging Charter School on Red Lake Reservation standing in front of the construction site for a new school building. Sequoia Carrillo/NPR hide caption
How the history of Leech Lake and Red Lake went down totally different paths
Vanessa Kirby and Joaquin Phoenix in Napoleon. Aidan Monaghan/Apple hide caption
A woman reported her son missing in 1995, but it took years to learn his fate
The Gaza International Airport was shut down amid Israeli-Palestinian fighting in 2001, barely two years after it opened. Today it lies in ruins. This photo is from 2011. Said Khatib/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The day Gaza got an airport and a presidential visit, fueling dreams of statehood
Visitors explore the Roman Necropolis at The Vatican. Gregorio Borgia/AP hide caption
GAZA CITY, GAZA- Palestinian Hamas militants are seen during a military show in the Bani Suheila district on July 20, 2017 in Gaza City, Gaza. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images) Chris McGrath/Getty Images hide caption
A photo of Dr. Roland Pattillo sits in the living room of Pat Pattillo. Lynsey Weatherspoon for NPR hide caption
Roland Pattillo helped keep Henrietta Lacks' story alive. It's key to his legacy
