The outside of Twitter's headquarters in San Francisco last month. The upheaval at the influential social media company threatens to make political violence worse around the world, according to human rights activists. Constanza Hevia/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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Wednesday
Tuesday
Stewart Rhodes, founder of Oath Keepers Aaron C. Davis/The Washington Post via Getty Images hide caption
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas testifies before a Senate subcommittee on homeland security on Capitol Hill on May 4. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images hide caption
A fight over how to enforce immigration laws reaches the Supreme Court
Monday
Mohammad Hashim, a former officer in the Afghan National Army, now picks apples for a living. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
Saturday
Yevhenia Podvoiska and Tatiana Kuznetsova, from left, both policewomen, steer and navigate a drone during class in Kyiv on Oct. 27. Students must learn to work in pairs: a pilot and a navigator. Julian Hayda/NPR hide caption
Ukrainian women have started learning a crucial war skill: how to fly a drone
In this Sept. 26, 2018 file photo, visitors walk past a display from Chinese technology firm ZTE at the PT Expo in Beijing. Mark Schiefelbein/AP hide caption
Friday
Ukrainians walk through the unlit streets of the capital Kyiv on Thursday, a day after Russian airstrikes knocked out electricity, heating and water to much of the country. With Russian troops faring poorly on the battlefield, Russia has launched a widespread bombing campaign directed at civilian infrastructure in Ukraine. Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images hide caption
Russia strikes, Ukraine repairs, in a battle to survive the winter
Monday
Liudmyla, left, embraces her granddaughter, Ania, who arrived Saturday on the first Ukrainian Railways train to reach liberated Kherson, Ukraine. The train from Kyiv arrived to jubilation and tears. Carol Guzy for NPR hide caption
Sunday
Logging in the recently liberated areas West of Izium is dangerous and punishable by fines. Unexploded ordnance litters the ground. But some loggers take the risk for the opportunity to harvest and deliver the wood to people who need heat. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
Friday
Jack Smith, seen in 2010 when he was the Justice Department's chief of the Public Integrity Section. Attorney General Merrick Garland named Smith a special counsel on Friday to oversee DOJ's criminal investigations involving former President Donald Trump. Charles Dharapak/AP hide caption
DOJ names Jack Smith as special counsel to oversee Trump criminal investigations
Trump supporters storm the U.S. Capitol following the then-president's rally on Jan. 6, 2021. Samuel Corum/Getty Images hide caption
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has officially declassified an image first tweeted by President Trump in 2019. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency hide caption
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia takes his seat ahead of a working lunch at the G20 Summit, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022, in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia. Leon Neal/AP hide caption
Thursday
Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray testifies before the House Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and National Counterterrorism Center Director Christine Abizaid were also there to discuss threats to the U.S. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption
Wednesday
The Justice Department announced a court in Ohio has sentenced a convicted Chinese spy to 20 years in prison. He attempted to steal trade secrets from an American company. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images hide caption