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Migrants gather at an informal camp near Jacumba Hot Springs, California, on June 14, 2024. Once they cross the border into the U.S., they wait to be processed by U.S. Border Patrol, in their hope to claim asylum. VCG/VCG via Getty Images/Visual China Group hide caption
Tamayo Perry during a surf competition at Teahupoo, Tahiti, French Polynesia. Perry died this week from injuries sustained during a shark attack. Steve Robertson/Getty Images hide caption
Sales of new homes like this one in Eagleville, Pa., are up modestly, while existing home sales have plummeted amid a housing shortage, record high prices and high mortgage rates. Matt Rourke/AP hide caption
What the leading presidential candidates have to say about soaring housing costs
A bedroom of the Olympic Village in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, photographed in February. The buildings will be cooled with a system of water pipes beneath the floor, rather than air conditioning. Thibault Camus/AP hide caption
President Biden and former President Donald Trump will face off Thursday night in Atlanta. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images; Carlos Osorio/AP hide caption
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Gabrielle Rose pauses before the women's 100 breaststroke preliminary heat on June 16 at the U.S. Swimming Olympic Trials in Indianapolis. Michael Conroy/AP hide caption
Wimberly Muñoz, a Venezuelan migrant waited at the Chaparral pedestrian border in Tijuana, Mexico to cross into the US. She is traveling with her mother, Ana Muñoz, right, and son Matia Muñoz. Carlos A. Moreno/NPR hide caption
Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek is seen during a 2012 rehearsal. Next month, the U.S. Postal Service is releasing a Forever Stamp honoring Trebek, who died in 2020. Kris Connor/Getty Images South America hide caption
A robotic arm at the International Space Station is seen releasing a pallet packed with batteries in 2021. NASA says a metal alloy stanchion from that flight equipment is what landed in a Florida home. NASA hide caption
A Florida family is suing NASA after a piece of space debris crashed through their home
Edgar Sanchez stops on a walk with his dogs beside a fire hydrant sprayer on Saturday in the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York. John Minchillo/AP hide caption
Cailyn Joseph, a PhD student in Andrew Baker's lab, organizes brain and elkhorn coral in Honduras before the trip to Miami.
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Nevada state Republican Party Chair Michael McDonald is seen in 2018 in Las Vegas. On Friday, a judge dismissed a criminal indictment against six Republicans, including McDonald, accused of submitting certificates to Congress falsely declaring Donald Trump the winner of the state’s 2020 presidential election. L.E. Baskow/AP hide caption
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Migrants and asylum seekers wait to be processed by the Border Patrol between fences at the US-Mexico border seen from Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on June 5, 2024. GUILLERMO ARIAS/AFP hide caption
Police prepare to open fire with tear gas and nonlethal rounds on a group of demonstrators protesting the death of George Floyd on May 29, 2020, in Minneapolis, Minn. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption
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In light of several recent incidents involving alleged racial discrimination toward its passengers, American Airlines CEO Robert Isom says he is taking immediate action to “rebuild trust” within the company. Here, Isom speaks at a news conference in Seattle on Feb. 13, 2020 about the company's new partnership with Alaska Airlines. Elaine Thompson/AP hide caption
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Shaina Taub of Suffs, Team USA's Jamal Hill, former President George Washington. Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tony Awards Productions; Charles Sykes/Invision/AP; Three Lions/Getty Images hide caption
Anna Lee Dozier purchased this vase at a thrift store about 10 minutes from her Washington, D.C., home. It turned out to be an authentic Mayan artifact that dates to between 200 AD to 800 AD. Anna Lee Dozier hide caption
Dr. Stephanie Arnold, who prefers bright-colored clothes instead of a white coat, meets with a patient who needs a pelvic exam. The family medicine clinic Arnold founded offers reproductive health care, including abortion, alongside all kinds of other care. “It’s a little bit of everything, which is very typical of family medicine,” she says. Elissa Nadworny/NPR hide caption