United Airlines pilot Steve Lindland receives a COVID-19 vaccine at O'Hare International Airport. Scott Olson/Getty Images hide caption
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A USPS logo is seen on a mailbox in New York. The postal service is implementing new service standards for first-class mail, as the new service standards will increase delivery reliability, consistency and efficiency for customers, officials say. John Smith/VIEWpress/Corbis via Getty Images hide caption
Federal regulators have banned swimming with Hawaii's spinner dolphins to protect the nocturnal animals from people. Swimming with dolphins is a popular tourist activity in Hawaii. NOAA Fisheries via AP hide caption
Celebrating 50 years as original employees of Walt Disney World are (from left) Chuck Milam, Earliene Anderson and Forrest Bahruth. John Raoux/AP hide caption
This photo shows Margie and Don Varnadoe attending a December 2020 Christmas party. The husband and wife from St. Simons Island, Ga., were among three people killed when an Amtrak train derailed in Montana on Sept. 25. AP hide caption
Cristina Ibarra and Alex Rivera, the first married couple to win MacArthur grants at the same time John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation hide caption
Latino Filmmakers Are The First Married Couple To Win MacArthur Grants In Same Year
Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. says the opioid crisis had disproportionately affected people in his community. Sue Ogrocki/AP hide caption
A U.S. Border Patrol agent on horseback tries to stop a Haitian migrant from entering an encampment on the banks of the Rio Grande in Del Rio, Texas. The Department of Homeland Security has pledged an investigation into the matter. Paul Ratje/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Biden Says Border Agents Will Be Held Accountable For Misconduct. A Critic Has Doubts
A selection of MacArthur fellows from the Class of 2021 (left to right, top row to bottom): Hanif Abdurraqib, Daniel Alarcón, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Jordan Casteel, Don Mee Choi, Nicole Fleetwood, Cristina Ibarra, Ibram X. Kendi, Daniel Lind-Ramos, Monica Muñoz Martinez, Safiya Noble, Alex Rivera, Jacqueline Stewart, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar. John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation hide caption
Robert Aaron Long appears in front of Fulton County Superior Court Judge Ural Glanville at the Fulton County Courthouse in downtown Atlanta in August. Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal Constitution via AP hide caption
Students at a training program, Cooperative Home Care Associates in New York, practice basic skills like a bed-bath on each other. Home health aides, provide basic, day-to-day support for elderly and disabled people, allowing them to age at home. Kavitha Cardoza hide caption
There's A Shortage Of Home Health Aides For The Elderly, And It's Getting Worse
NBA Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar looks on during the game between the Miami Heat and Milwaukee Bucks at the Fiserv Forum in 2019 in Milwaukee. Dylan Buell/Getty Images hide caption
Anita Hill teaches courses on gender, race, social policy and legal history at Brandeis University. Lisa O'Connor /AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Anita Hill Started A Conversation About Sexual Harassment. She's Not Done Yet
The halted under-construction Evergrande Cultural Tourism City, a mixed-used residential, retail and entertainment development in Taicang in China's eastern Jiangsu province. Vivian Lin/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Demonstrators scatter fake money and prescription bottles of OxyContin in August outside of U.S. Bankruptcy Court in White Plains, where the Purdue bankruptcy hearings were held. Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images hide caption
Jarrod Ramos, the admitted gunman in the attack on the Capital Gazette, was found criminally responsible by a jury in July. A copy of the newspaper is seen in a vending box in Annapolis, Md., on June 29, 2018, the day after the deadly shooting. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Robert Kaplan, seen in May 2017, will step down in early October. Richard Drew/AP hide caption
Michelle Chester, director of employee health services at Northwell Health, prepares the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at Long Island Jewish Valley Stream hospital. Hospitals and nursing homes across the country are preparing for worsening staff shortages as state deadlines arrive for employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Eduardo Munoz/AP hide caption
A spokesperson for Arizona Republican Gov. Doug Ducey called the decision "the result of a rogue judge interfering with the authority and processes of another branch of government." Ross D. Franklin/AP hide caption
Investigators examine the Kroger store in Collierville, Tenn., last week. Police say a gunman killed one person and shot several others there after he lost his job with a third-party vendor to the store. Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian via AP hide caption
Protesters attend a January 2016 hearing over a gas leak at the southern California Gas Company's Aliso Canyon Storage Facility in Los Angeles. Families sickened and forced from their homes have reached a $1.8 billion settlement. Richard Vogel/AP hide caption
A screen grab from Brandon Warren's video of a fireball meteor taken on Sept. 24 at 7:40 p.m. in Willow Spring, N.C. Brandon Warren hide caption