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Cleanup workers rake oil-soaked hay along a Santa Barbara beach in 1969, after an oil spill that was then the largest in U.S. history. Bettmann/Getty Images hide caption
How California's Worst Oil Spill Turned Beaches Black And The Nation Green
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Matthew Flinders' remains have been exhumed in London. Joyce Gold, Navy Chronicle Office, London/Library of Congress hide caption
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Alfred K. Newman, a Navajo Code Talker, died at age 94. Courtesy of Kevin Newman hide caption
Muhammad: Forty Introductions by Michael Muhammad Knight Amr Alfiky/NPR hide caption
Monday
The US Capitol in Washington, DC, January 14, 2019, is seen following a snowstorm. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
'Barely Treading Water': Why The Shutdown Disproportionately Affects Black Americans
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Then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich gestures toward President Bill Clinton, as then-Senate GOP leader Bob Dole sits to the right. They met to try to work through the government shutdown in late 1995 to early 1996. Greg Gibson/AP hide caption
The Longest Government Shutdown In History, No Longer — How 1995 Changed Everything
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Friday
(From left) Lake County, Fla., Sheriff Willis McCall and an unidentified man stand next to Walter Irvin, Samuel Shepherd and Charles Greenlee. The three were accused of rape in 1949, along with a fourth man. They were all pardoned Friday. State Library and Archives of Florida via AP hide caption
Thursday
A protestor holds up a poster depicting Mumia Abu-Jamal during a demonstration outside the offices of District Attorney Larry Krasner, Friday, Dec. 28, 2018, in Philadelphia. Matt Slocum/AP hide caption
Wednesday
Then-President Richard Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew wave to the crowd at the Republican National Convention in 1972. Agnew would resign a year later. AP hide caption
'Bad Behavior By People In High Office': Rachel Maddow On The Lessons Of Spiro Agnew
October 1789: American Gen. George Washington declining to accept terms, after the siege of Yorktown, from British Gen. Charles Cornwallis (left), whose subsequent surrender practically ended the American War of Independence. Three Lions/Getty Images hide caption
Tuesday
A bag to collect forensic evidence is seen as the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner hosts a demonstration of technology that allows them to test degraded DNA samples. Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Using Genetic Genealogy To Identify Unknown Crime Victims, Sometimes Decades Later
Political activist Angela Davis speaks onstage at the National Museum Of African American History and Culture last year in Washington, D.C. Mike Coppola/Getty Images hide caption
President Harry S. Truman speaks during a television address from the Oval Office in 1947. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images hide caption